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.

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[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)

Third Protectorate Parliament

Long Parliament (restored)

  • 1659-1660: ?
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[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 (aka Alex) Hargreaves Labour
1955 Dr Donald Johnson Conservative
1964 Ronald Lewis Labour
1987 Eric Martlew Labour
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[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 Democrat Steven Tweedie 5,916 16.7 +5.0
UK Independence 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 Democrat 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

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Constituencies in North West England
Labour

Ashton-under-Lyne | Barrow and Furness | Birkenhead | Blackburn | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Blackpool South | Bolton North East | Bolton South East | Bolton West | Bootle | Burnley | Bury North | Bury South | Carlisle | Chorley | City of Chester | Copeland | Crosby | Denton and Reddish | Eccles | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Halton | Heywood and Middleton | Hyndburn | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Knowsley South | Leigh | Liverpool Garston | Liverpool Riverside | Liverpool Walton | Liverpool Wavertree | Liverpool West Derby | Makerfield | Manchester Blackley | Manchester Central | Manchester Gorton | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Oldham West and Royton | Pendle | Preston | Rossendale and Darwen | Salford | South Ribble | St Helens North | St Helens South | Stalybridge and Hyde | Stockport | Stretford and Urmston | Wallasey | Warrington North | Warrington South | Weaver Vale | West Lancashire | Wigan | Wirral South | Wirral West | Workington | Worsley | Wythenshawe and Sale East
Conservative

Altrincham and Sale West | Crewe and Nantwich | 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
North West European constituency: Conservative (4) | Labour (3) | Liberal Democrats (1) | UKIP (1)
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