country constituency predecessor successor party term_start article_title term_end name
united kingdom croydon north east bernard weatherill '' seat abolished '' conservative party 1992 david congdon
 1997 david congdon
david congdon

david leonard congdon -lrb- born 16 october 1949 -rrb- is a british former conservative party politician .
he was the member of parliament -lrb- mp -rrb- for croydon north east , south london from 1992 to 1997 .
congdon had been also a councillor for many years and served as deputy leader of croydon council .
he was first elected to the house of commons at the 1992 general selection , succeeding the outgoing speaker bernard weatherill who was retiring from the commons .
the croydon seats were reorganised ahead of the 1997 general election , with the loss of one seat .
congdon competed against sir paul beresford , then mp for croydon central , for the conservative nomination for the new merged seat and won .
he then lost in the ensuing election in 1997 to labour 's geraint davies .
sir paul beresford , meanwhile , successfully contested mole valley and continued as an mp .
congdon stood once again against geraint davies at the 2001 election and lost .
he currently works for mencap , and did not stand again at the 2005 election , when the conservative candidate andrew pelling recaptured the seat from davies .
