Arundel (UK Parliament constituency)

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Arundel
Borough constituency
Created: 1332
Abolished: 1868
Type: House of Commons
Arundel
County constituency
Created: 1974
Abolished: 1997
Type: House of Commons

Arundel was twice a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. The first incarnation strictly comprised the town of Arundel and was a borough constituency first enfranchised in 1332 and disenfranchised in 1868 under the Reform Act 1867. Arundel initially elected two members, but this was reduced to one in 1832 by the Great Reform Act.

The second incarnation of the seat comprised also the area surrounding Arundel, including towns like Littlehampton. It was created by the Boundary Commission in the 1974 boundary changes, existing until 1997. Arundel now only elected one member. The territory previously covered by Arundel was split between Arundel & South Downs and Bognor Regis & Littlehampton constituencies.

Contents

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Arundel borough (1332-1868)

[edit] 1332-1640

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[edit] 1640-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
November 1640 Henry Garton Parliamentarian Sir Edward Alford Royalist
1641 John Downes [2] Parliamentarian
January 1644 Alford disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645 Herbert Hay
December 1648 Hay excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Arundel was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Anthony Shirley Arundel had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 Sir John Trevor
January 1659 Henry Onslow Richard Marriot
May 1659 John Downes One seat vacant
April 1660 The Earl of Orrery The Viscount Falkland
May 1660 John Trevor
1661 The Lord Aungier of Longford
1679 William Garway James Butler
1685 William Westbrooke
1689 William Morley
1690 James Butler
January 1694 Lord Henry Howard
February 1694 John Cooke
1695 Lord Henry Howard Edward Dummer
1698 John Cooke Christopher Knight
January 1701 Edmund Dummer
November 1701 Carew Weekes
1702 Edmund Dummer
1705 James Butler
May 1708 Sir Henry Peachey, Bt The Viscount Shannon
December 1708 Viscount Lumley
1710 The Earl of Thomond Viscount Lumley Whig
1715 General Henry Lumley Thomas Micklethwaite
1718 Joseph Micklethwaite
1722 Thomas Lumley
1727 Sir John Shelley, Bt The Viscount Gage
1728 John Lumley
1739 Garton Orme
1741 James Lumley
1747 Theobald Taafe
1754 Sir George Colebrooke, Bt Thomas Griffin
1761 John Bristow
1768 Lauchlin Macleane
1771 John Stewart
1774 Thomas Brand George Newnham
1780 Sir Patrick Crauford Thomas Fitzherbert
1781 Peter William Baker
April 1784 Earl of Surrey
June 1784 Richard Beckford
1790 Sir George Thomas, Bt Lord Henry Thomas Howard
1795 Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Bt
1796 James Greene
1797 Major General Nisbet Balfour
1802 Viscount Andover John Atkins
1806 Sir Arthur Piggott Francis Wilder
January 1807 The Lord Lecale
May 1807 Francis Wilder
October 1812 Lord Henry Thomas Howard
December 1812 Sir Samuel Romilly Whig
1818 Lord Henry Thomas Howard Sir Arthur Piggott
1819 Robert Blake
1820 Viscount Bury
1823 Thomas Read Kemp
1826 Edward Lombe John Atkins
1830 Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart Whig
1832 Representation reduced to one member

[edit] 1832-1868

Year Member Party
1832 Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart Whig
1837 Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel Whig
1851 Edward Strutt Liberal
1852 Lord Edward Fitzalan-Howard Liberal
1868 Constituency abolished

[edit] Arundel County Constituency (1974-1997)

Year Member Party
1974 Sir Michael Marshall Conservative
1997 Constituency abolished

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Created a peer, September 1622
  2. ^ Downes was elected after a disputed return at the by-election which followed the death of Garton

[edit] Election results

General Election 1992: Arundel
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Marshall 35,405 58.0
Liberal Democrat JMM Walsh 15,542 25.5
Labour RA Nash 8,321 13.6
Liberal D Renson 1,103 1.8
Green R Corbin 693 1.1
Majority 19,863 32.5
Turnout 61,064 77.1
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1987: Arundel
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Marshall 34,356 61.3
SDP-Liberal Alliance JMM Walsh 15,476 27.6
Labour P Slowe 6,177 11.0
Majority 18,880 33.7
Turnout 56,009 71.2
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1983: Arundel
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Marshall 31,096 59.6
SDP-Liberal Alliance J Walsh 15,391 29.5
Labour GC Rees 4,302 8.2
Conservative for Corporal Punishment J Wadman 1,399 2.7
Majority 15,705 30.1
Turnout 52,188 69.7
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1979: Arundel
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Marshall 43,968 65.0
Liberal JR Kingsbury 13,208 19.5
Labour JN Tizard 10,509 15.5
Majority 30,760 35.5
Turnout 67,685 73.9
Conservative hold Swing
General Election October 1974: Arundel
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Marshall 34,215 56.2
Liberal JR Kingsbury 15,404 25.3
Labour ME Stedman 11,268 18.5
Majority 18,811 30.9
Turnout 60,887 73.0
Conservative hold Swing
General Election February 1974: Arundel
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Marshall 37,655 57.1
Liberal JR Kingsbury 17,712 26.9
Labour BJ Pimlott 10,597 16.1
Majority 19,943 30.2
Turnout 65,964 79.6
Conservative hold Swing

[edit] References

  • Election results, 1974 - 1997
  • Concise Dictionary of National Biography (entry on Sir Nicholas Pelham)
  • D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
  • Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [1]
  • Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [2]
  • J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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