Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)

Camborne
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Number of members One
Replaced by Falmouth and Camborne
Created from West Cornwall

Camborne was a county constituency in Cornwall which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Falmouth and Camborne.

Between 1885 and 1918 its official name was The North West or Camborne Division of Cornwall, and it was sometimes referred to simply as North West Cornwall.

Boundaries

The Camborne constituency shown within Cornwall and Devon, 1918–1945.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1885 Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare Independent Liberal (Radical)
1886 Liberal
1895 Arthur Strauss Liberal Unionist Party
1900 William Sproston Caine Liberal
1903 by-election Sir Wilfrid Lawson Liberal
1906 Albert Edward Dunn Liberal
Dec. 1910 Sir Francis Dyke Acland, Bt. Liberal
1922 Algernon Henry Moreing National Liberal
1923 Leifchild Stratten Jones Liberal
1924 Algernon Henry Moreing Constitutionalist
1929 Leifchild Stratten Jones Liberal
1931 Sir Peter Garnett Agnew Conservative
1950 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885 [1]

Electorate 7,139

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare 2,926 53.2 n/a
Liberal A P Vivian 2,577 46.8 n/a
Majority 349 6.4 n/a
Turnout 77.1 n/a
Independent Liberal win (new seat)
General Election 1886 [2]

Electorate 7,139

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare 3,156 61.6 n/a
Liberal Unionist J D Gay 1,969 38.4 n/a
Majority 1,187 23.2 n/a
Turnout 71.8
Liberal hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892 [3]

Electorate 7,611

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare 3,073 53.8 -7.8
Liberal Unionist Arthur Strauss 2,635 46.2 +7.8
Majority 438 7.6 -15.6
Turnout 75.0
Liberal hold Swing -7.8
General Election 1895 [4]

Electorate 7,800

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Arthur Strauss 3,166 53.9 +7.7
Liberal Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare 2,704 46.1 -7.7
Majority 462 15.4
Turnout 75.3 +0.3
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +7.7

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900 [5]

Electorate 8,023

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Sproston Caine 3,101 50.9
Liberal Unionist Arthur Strauss 2,993 49.1
Majority 108 1.8
Turnout
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist Swing
Camborne by-election, 1903 [6]

Electorate 8,659

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sir Wilfrid Lawson 3,558 55.4 +4.5
Liberal Unionist Arthur Strauss 2,869 44.6 -4.5
Majority 689 10.8 +9.0
Turnout 74.2
Liberal hold Swing +4.5
Edward Dunn
General Election 1906 [7]

Electorate 9,210

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Albert Edward Dunn 4,614 65.0
Conservative Sir Thomas Hewitt 2,384 33.5
Social Democratic Federation John Joseph Jones 109 1.5
Majority 2,230 31.5
Turnout 77.2
Liberal hold Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910 [8]

Electorate 9,375

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Albert Edward Dunn 5,027 66.0 +1.0
Liberal Unionist Norman G Chamberlain 2,587 34.0 +0.5
Majority 32.0 +1.0
Turnout 81.2 +4.0
Liberal hold Swing +0.5
General Election December 1910 [9]

Electorate 9,375

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Francis Dyke Acland 4,419 65.5 -0.5
Liberal Unionist Dr George Coates 2,326 34.5 +0.5
Majority 2,093 31.0 -1.0
Turnout 71.9
Liberal hold Swing -0.5

General Election 1914/15: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

General Election 1914/15: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1914 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

Francis Acland
General Election 1918[10]

Electorate 32,575

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland 7,078 52.0
Labour George Nicholls 6,546 48.0 n/a
Majority 532 4.0
Turnout 41.8
Liberal hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922[11]

Electorate 34,097

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal Algernon Henry Moreing 8,191 39.7
Liberal Rt Hon. Leifchild Stratten Jones 7,923 38.4
Labour T Proctor 4,512 21.9
Majority 268 1.3
Turnout 60.5
National Liberal gain from Liberal Swing
General Election 1923[12]

Electorate 34,303

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal Rt Hon. Leifchild Stratten Jones 11,794 59.3
Liberal Algernon Henry Moreing 8,096 40.7
Majority
Turnout 58.0
Independent Liberal gain from Liberal Swing
General Election 1924[13]

Electorate 34,399

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Constitutionalist Algernon Henry Moreing 9,530 42.9
Liberal Rt Hon. Leifchild Stratten Jones 7,220 32.5
Labour Francis Arnold Polgrean Rowe 5,477 24.6
Majority 2,310 10.4
Turnout 64.6
Constitutionalist gain from Liberal Swing
General Election 1929[14]

Electorate 44,026

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rt Hon. Leifchild Stratten Jones 11,176 35.8
Unionist Algernon Henry Moreing 10,145 32.6
Labour H J Sharman 7,870 25.3
Independent J C Roberts 1,976 6.3
Majority 1,031 3.2
Turnout 70.8
Liberal gain from Unionist Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931[15]

Electorate 44,926

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Garnett Agnew 14,644 43.4
Liberal Rt Hon. Leifchild Stratten Jones 10,840 32.1
Ind. Labour Party Kate Florence Spurrell 8,280 24.5
Majority 3,824 11.3
Turnout 33,784 75.8
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing
General Election 1935[16]

Electorate 44,542

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Garnett Agnew 14,826 48.3 +4.9
Liberal Sir Walter Peacock 7,921 25.8 -6.3
Labour Harold R G Greaves 7,375 24.0 n/a
Ind. Labour Party Kate Florence Spurrell 592 1.9 -22.6
Majority 6,905 22.5 -11.2
Turnout 66.9
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939/40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

General Election 1945[17]

Electorate 51,407

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Com. Peter Garnett Agnew 12,257 37.1 -11.2
Labour Frank Harold Hayman 11,673 35.3 +11.3
Liberal Dr Thomas Rowland Hill 9,141 27.6 +1.8
Majority 584 1.8
Turnout 64.3
Conservative hold Swing

See also

References

  1. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  2. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  3. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  4. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  5. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  6. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  7. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  8. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  9. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  10. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
  11. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
  12. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
  13. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
  14. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
  15. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
  16. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
  17. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig

Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.