Louth, Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Louth County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Louth was a county constituency in Lincolnshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

It should not be confused with the former Irish constituency of County Louth (UK Parliament constituency). Between 1885 and 1918, its formal name was The East Lindsey (or Louth) Division of Lincolnshire, and it was sometimes referred to simply as East Lindsey.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1910s 3.2 Elections in the 1920s 3.3 Elections in the 1960s 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Francis Otter	Liberal
	1886	Arthur Raymond Heath	Conservative
	1892	Sir Robert William Perks	Liberal
	January 1910	Henry Langton Brackenbury	Conservative
	December 1910	Timothy Davies	Liberal
	1918	Henry Langton Brackenbury	Coalition Conservative
	1920 by-election	Thomas Wintringham	Liberal
	1921 by-election	Margaret Wintringham	Liberal
	1924	Arthur Pelham Heneage	Unionist
	1945	Sir Cyril Osborne	Conservative
	1969 by-election	Jeffrey Howard Archer	Conservative
	October 1974	Michael Lewis Brotherton	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Louth, Lincolnshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Conservative	Henry Langton Brackenbury	9,055	54.5
	Liberal	Timothy Davies	7,559	45.5
Majority			1,496	9.0
Turnout			16,614	60.3
	Coalition Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

Louth by-election, 1920
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Wintringham	9,859	57.3	+11.8
	Coalition Conservative	C. H. Turnor	7,354	42.7	−11.8
Majority			2,505	14.6
Turnout			17,213	63.1	+2.8
	Liberal gain from Coalition Conservative		Swing	11.8

Louth by-election, 1921
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Margaret Wintringham	8,386	42.2	−15.1
	Conservative	Sir A. Hutchings	7,695	38.3	−4.4
	Labour	J. L. George	3,873	19.5	N/A
Majority			791	3.9	−10.7
Turnout			19,954	72.1	+9.0
	Liberal hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1960s

Louth by-election, 1969
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jeffrey Archer	16,317	58.0	+11.6
	Labour	Bruce Briggs	5,590	19.9	−17.0
	Liberal	John Adams	5,003	17.8	+1.0
	United Democratic Party	Sir George Fitzgerald	1,225	4.4	N/A
Majority			10,727	38.1	+28.6
Turnout			28,135		+
	Conservative hold		Swing	+14.3

[edit] See also

• Louth by-election, 1920
• Louth by-election, 1921
• Louth by-election, 1969

[edit] References

• 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)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page