Barnard Castle (UK Parliament constituency)

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Barnard Castle County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Barnard Castle was a constituency centred on the town of Barnard Castle in County Durham, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 Sources

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Joseph Pease	Liberal
	1903	Arthur Henderson	Labour
	1918	John Edmund Swan	Labour
	1922	John Edwin Rogerson	Conservative
	1923	Moss Turner-Samuels	Labour
	1924	Cuthbert Headlam	Conservative
	1929	William Lawther	Labour
	1931	Cuthbert Headlam	Conservative
	1935	Thomas Miles Sexton	Labour
	1945	Sydney Charles Robert Lavers	Labour
1950		constituency abolsihed

[edit] Election results

[edit] Sources

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.