Haltemprice (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Haltemprice County constituency |
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| Created: | 1955 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
| Kingston upon Hull, Haltemprice Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1950 |
| Abolished: | 1955 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Haltemprice (which from 1950-1955 was officially known as Kingston upon Hull, Haltemprice) was a constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire, which was a traditoional sub-division of the historic county of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. It was the supposed constituency of the fictional ultra-right Tory MP, Alan B'Stard, in The New Statesman.
[edit] Boundaries
1950-1955: The constituency comprised two wards of the County Borough of Kingston upon Hull (Pickering, and St. Andrew's) and the Urban District of Haltemprice.
1955-1983: The constituency lost the Kingston upon Hull wards (which were transferred to Kingston upon Hull West). It gained the Metropolitan Borough of Beverley and the Rural District of Beverley (from the former Beverley constituency).
In 1983, after considerable local government changes, most of Haltemprice became a new seat of Beverley. The remainder of the constituency contributed 11.6% of the new Boothferry seat.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1950 | Richard Law | Conservative | |
| 1954 | Sir Patrick Wall | Conservative | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished | ||
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
[edit] References
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)
