Gravesend (UK Parliament constituency)

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Gravesend
County constituency
Created: 1868
Abolished: 1983
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Gravesend was a county constituency centred on the town of Gravesend, Kent which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

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[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1868 Sir Charles John Wingfield
1874 Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim
1880 Thomas Bevan
1880 by-election Sir Sydney Waterlow Liberal
1885 John Bazley White
1892 James Dampier Palmer
1898 by-election John Ryder Conservative
1900 Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker Conservative
1918 Sir Alexander Richardson Conservative
1923 George Alfred Isaacs Labour
1924 Sir Irving James Albery Conservative
1945 Garry Allighan Labour
1947 by-election Richard Acland Labour
1955 Peter Michael Kirk Conservative
1964 Albert Murray Labour
1970 Roger Lowrey White Conservative
1974, February John Ovenden Labour
1979 Timothy Brinton Conservative
1983 constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

1918 general election: Gravesend
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Conservative Sir Alexander Richardson 7,841 51.6
Labour J. Butts 3,254 21.5
Independent Conservative H.E. Davis 1,817 12.0 N/A
Liberal C. E. Best 1,271 8.4
National Party H. Hinkley 985 6.5 N/A
Majority 4,587 30.1
Turnout 15,168 48.8
Conservative hold Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

1922 general election: Gravesend
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Alexander Richardson 8,166 40.6 −11.0
Labour George Alfred Isaacs 7,180 35.6 +14.1
Independent Conservative H.E. Davis 4,796 23.8 +15.4
Majority 986 5.0 −25.1
Turnout 20,142 63.0 +14.2
Conservative hold Swing −12.6
1923 general election: Gravesend
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Alfred Isaacs 9,776 43.4 +7.8
Conservative Sir Alexander Richardson 9,657 42.8 +2.2
Liberal L.H.D. Jones 3,123 13.8 N/A
Majority 119 0.6 N/A
Turnout 22,556 68.8 +5.8
Labour gain from Conservative Swing 2.9
1924 general election: Gravesend
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Irving Albery 15,410 58.4 +15.6
Labour George Alfred Isaacs 10,969 41.6 −1.8
Majority 4,441 16.8
Turnout 26,379 78.0 +9.2
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +8.7
1929 general election: Gravesend
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Irving Albery 14,644 46.1 −12.3
Labour W.J. Humphreys 12,871 40.6 −1.0
Liberal F.W. Kershaw 4,220 13.3 N/A
Majority 1,773 5.5 −13.3
Turnout 31,735 71.8 −6.2
Conservative hold Swing −5.7

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

1931 general election: Gravesend
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Irving Albery 22,410 64.2 +18.1
Labour B. Greene 12,488 35.8 −4.8
Majority 9,922 28.4 +22.9
Turnout 24,898 75.7 +3.9
Conservative hold Swing +11.5
1935 general election: Gravesend
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Irving Albery 20,438 56.1 −8.1
Labour B. Greene 15,994 43.9 +8.1
Majority 4,444 12.2 −16.2
Turnout 36,432 72.4 −3.3
Conservative hold Swing −8.1

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

1945 general election: Gravesend
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Garry Allighan 21,609 52.5 +8.6
Conservative Sir Irving James Albery 14,553 35.3 −20.8
Liberal R.E. Goodfellow 5,033 12.2 N/A
Majority 4,444 12.2 N/A
Turnout 41,195 74.5 +2.1
Labour gain from Conservative Swing 14.7
Gravesend by-election, 1947
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sir Richard Acland 24,692 51.8 −0.7
Conservative Frank K. Taylor 23,017 48.2 +12.9
Majority 1,675 3.6 −13.6
Turnout 47,709
Labour hold Swing −6.1

[edit] Elections in the 1950s

[edit] Elections in the 1960s

[edit] Elections in the 1970s

[edit] See also

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