King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency)
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| King's Lynn Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1298 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two (1298-1885), one (1885-1918) |
| Norfolk, King's Lynn County constituency |
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| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1974 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
King's Lynn was a constituency in Norfolk, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1885, and one member thereafter. Until 1918 it was a parliamentary borough, after which the name was transferred to a county constituency. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election.
Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister, was one of the constituency's two MPs for almost the entirety of his Commons career, from 1702 until 1742.
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[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1298-1640
- 1555: Sir Nicholas L'Estrange
- 1559: Thomas Hogan
- 1563-1567: Richard L'Estrange
- 1563-1577: (Sir) Robert Bell
- 1580-1581: John Peyton
- 1601: Sir Robert Mansell
- 1604-1611: Thomas Oxburgh
- 1604-1611: Robert Hitcham
- 1621-1622: Matthew Clerke
- 1621-1622: John Wallis
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[edit] 1640-1832
[edit] 1885-1974
Notes
- ^ Salisbury had been a peer, sitting in the House of Lords, since 1612, but became eligible to sit in the Commons after the House of Lords was abolished
- ^ Desborough was also elected for Somerset
- ^ Walpole was expelled from the House of Commons in January 1712 for "a high Breach of trust and notorious corruption". He was re-elected at the ensuing by-election, but the Commons resolved that having been expelled he was not capable of being re-elected to the House in the same session. Rather than awarding the election to his opponent, the election was declared void and a new writ was issued.
- ^ Styled Lord Walpole from 1806
- ^ Styled Lord Stanley from 1851
[edit] Election results
[edit] Elections in the 1940s
| King's Lynn by-election, 1943 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Lord Fermoy | 10,696 | 54.2 | +4.2 | |
| Independent Labour | Frederick Wise | 9,027 | 45.8 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,669 | 8.4 | −7.1 | ||
| Turnout | 9,723 | 39.8 | −31.9 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- 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) [2]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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| Preceded by Represented by first Prime Minister |
Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1721 - 1742 |
Succeeded by vacant. Next was Sussex in 1743 |
Categories: Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk (historic) | United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1298 | United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1974 | United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies represented by a sitting Prime Minister | United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
