| Bridlington | |
|---|---|
| Former constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| County | 1950-1974 East Riding of Yorkshire 1974-1996 Humberside 1996-1997 East Riding of Yorkshire |
| 1950–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | East Yorkshire |
| Created from | Buckrose |
Bridlington was a constituency in East Yorkshire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.
It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
By virtue of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England proposed in September 2011 re-creating a Bridlington constituency. It would cover Bridlington and its rural environs in addition to Holderness along its entire length to Withernsea. [1]
Contents |
| Election | Member[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Richard Wood | Conservative | |
| 1979 | John Townend | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished | ||
| General Election 1992: Bridlington[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | John Townend | 33,604 | 50.8 | −4.0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | John A. Leeman | 17,246 | 26.1 | +0.6 | |
| Labour | Steven M. Hatfield | 15,263 | 23.1 | +5.0 | |
| Majority | 16,358 | 24.7 | −4.6 | ||
| Turnout | 66,113 | 77.8 | +4.2 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −2.3 | |||