 Sir Stafford Cripps won the seat comfortably from holding its main predecessor in 1950 and continued in government with the new seat for just over six months (he was at the time Chancellor of the Exchequer) before resigning from Parliament due to health reasons.The final MP for the constituency was Tony Benn who served as Secretary of State (for Industry from 1974-5 then as Secretary of State For Energy from 1975-1979), in the latter role, the UK saw the Winter of Discontent and power shortages.Benn ran in the near-overlapping successor seat, Bristol East in 1983 and was defeated by Conservative candidate Jonathan Sayeed.