Brigg (UK Parliament constituency)

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Brigg County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1974
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Brigg was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Brigg in North Lincolnshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election. See Brigg and Scunthorpe for the constituency which replaced this one.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1940s 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson, Bt.	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1886	Samuel Danks Waddy	Liberal
	1894	John Maunsell Richardson	Conservative
	1895	Harold James Reckitt	Liberal
	1907	Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield	Conservative
	1910	Sir William Alfred Gelder	Liberal
	1918	Charles Wesley Weldon McLean	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield	Conservative
	1929	David John Kinsley Quibell	Labour
	1931	Michael John Hunter	Conservative
	1935	David John Kinsley Quibell	Labour
	1945	Tom Williamson	Labour
	1948	Edward Lancelot Mallalieu	Labour
1974		constituency abolished: see Brigg & Scunthorpe

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

Brigg by-election, 1948
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lance Mallalieu	27,333	54.6	−4.3
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	22,746	45.4	+4.3
Majority			4,587	9.2	−8.6
Turnout			50,079	77.1	+0.5
	Labour hold		Swing	−4.3

[edit] See also

• Brigg by-election, 1948

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.