| Whitehaven | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| County | 1832–1974: Cumberland 1974–1983: Cumbria |
| Major settlements | Whitehaven |
| 1832–1983 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Copeland |
| Created from | Cumberland |
Whitehaven was a constituency centred on the town of Whitehaven in Cumberland , which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was created in 1832 and renamed Copeland at the 1983 general election.
Contents |
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | Matthias Attwood | Conservative | |
| 1847 | Robert Charles Hildyard | Conservative | |
| 1857 by-election | George Lyall | Conservative | |
| 1865 | George Cavendish-Bentinck | Conservative | |
| 1891 by-election | Sir James Bain | Conservative | |
| 1892 | Thomas Shepherd Little | Liberal | |
| 1895 | Augustus Helder | Conservative | |
| 1906 | William John Dalzell Burnyeat | Liberal | |
| Jan. 1910 | John Arthur Jackson | Conservative | |
| Dec. 1910 | Thomas Richardson | Labour | |
| 1918 | James Augustus Grant | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Thomas Gavan Duffy | Labour | |
| 1924 | Robert Hudson | Conservative | |
| 1929 | Morgan Philips Price | Labour | |
| 1931 | William Nunn | Conservative | |
| 1935 | Frank Anderson | Labour | |
| 1959 | Joseph Bede Symonds | Labour | |
| 1970 | Jack Cunningham | Labour | |
| 1983 | constituency renamed (with unchanged boundaries), see Copeland | ||