Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency)

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Carlisle Borough constituency
Carlisle shown within Cumbria, and Cumbria shown within England
Created:	1295
MP:	Eric Martlew
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Cumbria
EP constituency:	North West England

Carlisle is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It has been a Labour seat since 1964, but is now a marginal constituency with the Conservatives as the main challengers.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 MPs 1640-1660 2.2 MPs 1660-1885 2.3 MPs 1885-present 3 Election results 4 Notes 5 See also 6 References

[edit] Boundaries

The Carlisle constituency covers the most populated part of the City of Carlisle district in Cumbria, including the city of Carlisle itself. It also covers the rural area of the district to the south and west of the city, including the village of Dalston. The remaining parts of the district are in the Penrith and the Border constituency.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cumbria, the Boundary Commission for England have modified the boundaries of the Carlisle constituency, as a consequence of population changes. The altered constituency to be fought at the next general election (expected to be held in 2009 or 2010) will be formed from the following wards:

• Belah, Belle Vue, Botcherby, Burgh, Castle, Currock, Dalston, Denton Holme, Harraby, Morton, St Aidans, Stanwix Urban, Upperby, Wetheral, and Yewdale.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1640-1660

• 1626: Richard Graham
• 1628-1629: Richard Graham

Long Parliament

• 1640-1644: Sir William Dalston (Royalist) - disabled to sit, January 1644
• 1640-1648 (?): Richard Barwis (Parliamentarian) - not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge, December 1648
• 1645(?)-1648(?): Thomas Cholmley- not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge, December 1648

Carlisle was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament.

First Protectorate Parliament (One member only)

• 1654-1655:?

Second Protectorate Parliament (One member only)

• 1656-1658: George Downing

Third Protectorate Parliament

• 1659: George Downing
• 1659: ?

Long Parliament (restored)

• 1659-1660: ?

[edit] MPs 1660-1885

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1660	William Briscoe		Jeremiah Tolhurst
		1661	Sir Christopher Musgrave		Sir Philip Howard
		1681			Viscount Morpeth
		1685			James Grahme
		1689			Jeremiah Bubb
		1690	Christopher Musgrave
		1692			William Lowther
		1694			James Lowther
		1695	William Howard
		1701	Philip Howard
		1702	Christopher Musgrave		Thomas Stanwix
		1705	Sir James Montagu
		1713	Sir Christopher Musgrave
		1715	William Strickland	Whig
		1721			Henry Aglionby
		1722	James Bateman
		1727	Charles Howard		John Hylton
		1741			John Stanwix
		1742			John Hylton
		1746			John Stanwix
		1761	Raby Vane		Henry Curwen
		1768	Lord Charles Edward Bentinck		George Musgrave
		1774	Anthony Storer		Fletcher Norton [1]
		1775			Walter Spencer-Stanhope
		1780	Earl of Surrey		William Lowther
		1784			Edward Norton
		April 1786			John Lowther
		May 1786			John Christian
		November 1786	Edward Knubley [2]
		1787	Rowland Stephenson
		1790	James Clarke Satterthwaite [3]		Edward Knubley
		1791	Wilson Bradyll		John Christian Curwen	Whig
		1796	Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane	Whig
		1802	Walter Spencer Stanhope	Tory
		1812	Sir James Graham	Tory	Henry Fawcett
		1816			John Christian Curwen [4]	Whig
		1820			William James	Whig
		1825	Sir Philip Musgrave	Tory
		1826			Sir James Graham	Whig
		1827	James Law Lushington	Tory
		1829			Sir William Scott	Tory
		1830			Philip Henry Howard	Whig
		1831	William James	Whig
		1835	William Marshall	Whig
		1847	William Nicholson Hodgson	Conservative	John Dixon [5]	Whig
		1848			Philip Henry Howard	Whig
		1852	Joseph Ferguson	Whig	Sir James Graham	Peelite
		1857	William Nicholson Hodgson	Conservative
		1859	Wilfrid Lawson	Liberal
		1861			Edmund Potter	Liberal
		1865	William Nicholson Hodgson	Conservative
		1868	Sir Wilfrid Lawson	Liberal
		1874			Robert Ferguson	Liberal

• Representation reduced to one member (1885)

[edit] MPs 1885-present

Year		Member	Party
1885		Representation reduced to one member
	1885	Robert Ferguson	Liberal
	1886	William Court Gully	Gladstonian Liberal
	1905	Frederick William Chance	Liberal
	1910 January	Richard Denman	Liberal
	1918	William Theodore Carr	Coalition Liberal
	1922	George Middleton	Labour
	1924	William Watson	Conservative
	1929	George Middleton	Labour
	1931	Louis Spears	Conservative
	1945	Edgar Grierson	Labour
	1950	Alfred Hargreaves	Labour
	1955	Dr Donald Johnson	Conservative
	1964	Ronald Lewis	Labour
	1987	Eric Martlew	Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Carlisle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eric Martlew	17,019	48.1	-3.1
	Conservative	Mike Mitchelson	11,324	32.0	-2.8
	Liberal Democrats	Steven Tweedie	5,916	16.7	+5.0
	UKIP	Steven Cochrane	792	2.2	+2.2
	Legalise Cannabis	Lezley Gibson	343	1.0	-0.6
Majority			5,695	16.1
Turnout			35,394	59.5	+0.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.2

General Election 2001: Carlisle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eric Martlew	17,856	51.2	-6.3
	Conservative	Mike Mitchelson	12,154	34.8	+5.8
	Liberal Democrats	John Guest	4,076	11.7	+1.2
	Legalise Cannabis	Colin Paisley	554	1.6	+1.6
	Socialist Alliance	Paul Wilcox	269	0.8	+0.8
Majority			5,702	16.4
Turnout			34,909	59.4	-13.4
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Norton was also elected for Guildford, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Carlisle
2. ^ Knubley defeated Rowland Stephenson in a contested by-election by 553 votes to 405; but on petition Knubley was unseated and Stephenson declared elected
3. ^ At the general election Satterthwaite and Knubley defeated Curwen and Bradyll; however on petition the result was overturned and Curwen and Bradyll were declared elected. Knubley and Stephenson had each secured 503 votes of which 377 came from newly appointed freemen
4. ^ Curwen was re-elected at the 1820 general election but was also elected for Cumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Carlisle in this parliament
5. ^ On petition, the 1847 election in Carlisle was declared void. At the resulting by-election held in March 1848, Hodgson was re-elected but Howard, who had come third in the original election, finished ahead of Dixon

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cumbria

[edit] References

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

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Conservative	Altrincham and Sale West | Congleton | Eddisbury | Fylde | Lancaster and Wyre | Macclesfield | Penrith and The Border | Ribble Valley | Tatton
Liberal Democrat	Cheadle | Hazel Grove | Manchester Withington | Rochdale | Southport | Westmorland and Lonsdale
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