Hastings (UK Parliament constituency)
Hastings | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1366–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Hastings was a parliamentary constituency in Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1885 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member.
It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partially replaced by the new Hastings and Rye constituency.
As its name suggested, the main settlement in the constituency was the seaside resort of Hastings. From 1950 to 1955, it also took in the towns of Battle and Rye.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1366–1640
Parliament | First member | Second member |
---|---|---|
1386 | John Clyvessend | Edward Martham [1] |
1378 | John Salerne | |
1382 (May) | John Salerne | |
1383 (Feb) | John Salerne | |
1383 (Oct) | John Salerne | |
1388 (Feb) | John Clyvessend | Edward Martham [1] |
1388 (Sep) | Richard Bannok | John Scott [1] |
1390 (Jan) | John Clyvessend | Richard Wybard [1] |
1390 (Nov) | ||
1391 | John Clyvessend | Richard Bannok [1] |
1393 | John Scott | John Sharp [1] |
1394 | ||
1395 | Edward Martham | John Hokere [1] |
1397 (Jan) | John Clyvessend | John Hokere [1] |
1397 (Sep) | ||
1399 | Edward Martham | Henry Mordant [1] |
1401 | ||
1402 | John Sharp | Robert Burgrove [1] |
1404 (Jan) | ||
1404 (Oct) | ||
1406 | Henry Mordant | John Bexle [1] |
1407 | Robert Burgrove | Thomas Wybard [1] |
1410 | Edward Martham | John Harry [1] |
1411 | ||
1413 (Feb) | ||
1413 (May) | Henry Mordant | Richard Huntingdon [1] |
1414 (Apr) | ||
1414 (Nov) | Jihn Sharp | Thomas Julyan [1] |
1415 | ||
1416 (Mar) | ||
1416 (Oct) | ||
1417 | John Lyvett | Richard Huntingdon [1] |
1419 | Simon Lymbergh | John Martham [1] |
1420 | Simon Lymbergh | William Courthope [1] |
1421 (May) | John Parker | William Courthope [1] |
1421 (Dec) | Richard Huntingdon | William Courthope [1] |
1510 | No names known[2] | |
1512 | Robert Hall | Henry Benever [2] |
1515 | ? | |
1523 | Edmund Jacklin alias Bocher | Edmund Franke [2] |
1529 | Richard Calveley | Thomas Shoyswell [2] |
by 1534 | John Durrant | John Taylor [2] |
1536 | ?John Durrant | ?John Taylor [2] |
1539 | ? | |
1542 | John Franke | Richard Bishop [2] |
1545 | ? | |
1547 | Sir William Stafford | John Isted [2] |
1553 (Mar) | John Isted | ? |
1553 (Oct) | Thomas Rhodes | John Peyton [2] |
1554 (Apr) | John Franke | John Isted [2] |
1554 (Nov) | Thomas Rhodes | John Peyton [2] |
1555 | Thomas Rhodes | Roger Manwood [2] |
1558 | Thomas Brett | Henry Tennant [2] |
1559 | John Franke | James Hobson[3] |
1562/3 | Sir William Damsell[4] | Richard Lyffe [3] |
1571 | Richard Lyffe | James Bryan [3] |
1572 | Richard Lyffe | Thomas Lake [3] |
1584 | Thomas Lake | Thomas Phillips[3] |
1586 | Thomas Lake | Thomas Phillips[3] |
1588/9 | Richard Lyffe | John Parker [3] |
1593 | Richard Lyffe | Henry Apsley [3] |
1597 | Richard Lyffe | Edmund Pelham [3] |
1601 | Sir Thomas Shirley | Richard Lyffe [3] |
1604–1611 | Richard Lyffe died and replaced by James Lasher | Sir George Carew ennobled and replaced 1605 by Sir Edward Hales[5] |
1614 | Sir Edward Hales | James Lasher |
1621 | Samuel Moore | James Lasher |
1624 | Nicholas Eversfield | Samuel Moore |
1625 | Nicholas Eversfield | Sackville Crowe |
1626 | Sir Dudley Carleton replaced by Sir Thomas Parker | Nicholas Eversfield |
1628 | John Ashburnham | Nicholas Eversfield |
MPs 1640–1885
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
April 1640 | Sir John Baker | Robert Reed | ||||
November 1640 | John Ashburnham | Royalist | (Sir) Thomas Eversfield | Royalist | ||
February 1644 | Ashburnham and Eversfield disabled from sitting - both seats vacant | |||||
1645 | John Pelham | Roger Gratwick | ||||
December 1648 | Pelham excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | |||||
1653 | Hastings was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
January 1659 | Samuel Gott | Nicholas Delves | ||||
May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
April 1660 | Sir Denny Ashburnham | Nicholas Delves | ||||
1661 | Edmund Waller | |||||
1679 | Sir Robert Parker | John Ashburnham | ||||
1681 | Thomas Mun | |||||
1685 | Sir Denny Ashburnham | John Ashburnham | ||||
Jan 1689 | Thomas Mun | |||||
Aug 1689 | John Beaumont | |||||
1690 | Peter Gott | |||||
1695 | John Pulteney | Robert Austen | ||||
1698 | Peter Gott | |||||
1701 | John Mounsher | |||||
1702 | Hon. William Ashburnham | |||||
Feb 1710 | John Ashburnham | Tory | ||||
Oct 1710 | Sir William Ashburnham | Sir Joseph Martin | ||||
1713 | Archibald Hutcheson | |||||
1715 | Henry Pelham | |||||
1722 | Sir William Ashburnham | |||||
1727 | Thomas Townshend [6] | |||||
1728 | Thomas Pelham | |||||
1741 | James Pelham | Andrew Stone | Whig | |||
1761 | Hon. James Brudenell | William Ashburnham | ||||
1768 | Samuel Martin | |||||
1774 | Viscount Palmerston | Charles Jenkinson | ||||
1780 | John Ord | |||||
1784 | John Dawes | John Stanley | ||||
1790 | Sir Richard Pepper Arden | |||||
1794 | Robert Saunders Dundas | |||||
1796 | Sir James Sanderson | Nicholas Vansittart | ||||
1798 | William Sturges | |||||
1802 | The Lord Glenbervie | George William Gunning | ||||
1806 | Sir John Nicholl | Sir William Fowle Middleton | ||||
1807 | George Canning | Sir Abraham Hume | ||||
1812 | James Dawkins | |||||
1818 | George Peter Holford | |||||
1820 | William Henry John Scott | |||||
June 1826 | Sir William Curtis, Bt. | Sir Charles Wetherell | ||||
December 1826 | Evelyn Denison | James Law Lushington | ||||
1827 | Joseph Planta | |||||
1830 | Sir Henry Fane | |||||
1831 | John Ashley Warre | Whig | Frederick North | Whig | ||
1835 | Howard Elphinstone | Whig | ||||
1837 | Joseph Planta | Conservative | Robert Hollond | Whig | ||
1844 | Musgrave Brisco | Conservative | ||||
1852 | Patrick Francis Robertson | Conservative | ||||
1854 | Frederick North | Whig | ||||
1859 | Liberal | Lord Harry Vane | Liberal | |||
1864 | Hon. George Waldegrave-Leslie | Liberal | ||||
1865 | Patrick Francis Robertson | Conservative | ||||
1868 | Thomas Brassey | Liberal | Frederick North | Liberal | ||
1869 | Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth | Liberal | ||||
1880 | Charles James Murray | Conservative | ||||
1883 | Henry Bret Ince | Liberal | ||||
1885 | Redistribution of Seats Act: representation reduced to one member |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 "history of Parliament Trust". Retrieved 2011-11-25.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 "history of Parliament Trust". Retrieved 2011-11-25.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 "history of Parliament Trust". Retrieved 2011-11-25.
- ↑ Stanley T. Bindoff, The House of Commons: 1509-1558, vol. 4, p. 9
- ↑ Cobbett's Parliamentary History records the second member for Hastings in the 1604 Parliament as being James Lasher, but this seems to be an error; Lasher is mentioned only in the Commons Journal from 1621 while Carew was certainly a member in 1604, and other sources name his constituency as Hastings
- ↑ Townshend was also elected for Cambridge University, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Hastings
MPs 1885–1983
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1885 | Thomas Brassey | Liberal | |
1886 | Wilson Noble | Conservative | |
1895 | William Lucas-Shadwell | Conservative | |
1900 | Freeman Freeman-Thomas | Liberal | |
1906 | Harvey du Cros | Conservative | |
1908 by-election | Sir Arthur du Cros | Conservative | |
1918 | Laurance Lyon | Coalition Conservative | |
1921 by-election | Lord Eustace Percy | Coalition Conservative | |
1937 by-election | Maurice Hely-Hutchinson | Conservative | |
1945 | Sir Neill Cooper-Key | Conservative | |
1970 | Kenneth Warren | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Hastings and Rye |
Elections
Elections in the 1900s
General Election 1900: Hastings[1] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Freeman Freeman-Thomas | 3,399 | 51.6 | ||
Conservative | Edward Gurney Boyle | 3,191 | 48.4 | ||
Majority | 208 | 3.2 | |||
Turnout | 80.9 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
General Election January 1906[2] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | William Harvey du Cros | 4,348 | 52.5 | ||
Liberal | Freeman Freeman-Thomas | 3,935 | 47.5 | ||
Majority | 413 | 5.0 | |||
Turnout | 94.6 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
Hastings by-election, 1908[2] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Arthur Philip Du Cros | 4,495 | 56.4 | +3.9 | |
Liberal | Robert Venables Vernon Harcourt | 3,477 | 43.6 | -3.9 | |
Majority | 1,018 | 12.8 | +7.8 | ||
Turnout | 91.6 | -3.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.9 | |||
Elections in the 1910s
General Election January 1910[2] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Arthur Philip Du Cros | 4,634 | 54.7 | -1.7 | |
Liberal | R. Tweedy-Smith | 3,833 | 45.3 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 801 | 9.4 | -3.4 | ||
Turnout | 93.8 | +2.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -1.7 | |||
General Election December 1910: Hastings [1] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Arthur Philip Du Cros | 4,397 | 55.6 | ||
Liberal | Arthur Frederick William Johnson | 3,515 | 44.4 | ||
Majority | 882 | 11.2 | |||
Turnout | 87.6 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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;
- Unionist: Arthur Philip Du Cros
- Liberal: Cecil Patrick Black
General Election 1918: Hastings[3] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | 11,210 | 75.9 | |||
British Socialist Party | Joseph George Butler | 3,556 | 24.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 7,654 | 51.8 | |||
Turnout | 59.2 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
- endorsed by the Coalition Government.
Elections in the 1920s
Hastings by-election, 1921[3] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | 11,685 | 54.7 | -21.2 | ||
Labour | W Richard Davies | 5,437 | 25.5 | +1.4 | |
Liberal | A Blackman | 4,240 | 19.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 6,248 | 29.2 | -22.6 | ||
Turnout | 78.0 | +18.8 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -11.3 | |||
- endorsed by the Coalition Government.
General Election 1922: Hastings[3] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy | 13,991 | 68.3 | ||
Labour | W Richard Davies | 6,492 | 31.7 | ||
Majority | 7,499 | 36.6 | +7.4 | ||
Turnout | 71.2 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
1923 General Election: Hastings[4] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy | 11,914 | 52.6 | ||
Liberal | Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon | 5,876 | 25.9 | n/a | |
Labour | W. Richard Davies | 4,859 | 21.5 | ||
Majority | 6,038 | 26.7 | |||
Turnout | 76.4 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1924: Hastings[3] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy | 15,217 | 71.4 | ||
Labour | Mrs M M Porter | 6,082 | 28.6 | ||
Majority | 9,135 | 42.8 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1929: Hastings[3] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Rt Hon. Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy | 15,928 | 52.3 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Austen Edwin Spearing | 8,004 | 26.3 | ||
Labour | Basil Noble | 6,516 | 21.4 | ||
Majority | 7,924 | 26.0 | |||
Turnout | 73.4 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1931: Hastings[3] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Rt Hon. Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy | 22,640 | 70.3 | ||
Labour | Irene Goddard | 4,983 | 15.5 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Austen Edwin Spearing | 4,561 | 14.2 | ||
Majority | 17,657 | 54.9 | |||
Turnout | 32,184 | 73.8 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1935: Hastings[3] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Rt Hon. Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy | 20,905 | 69.0 | ||
Labour | W W Wood | 9,404 | 31.0 | ||
Majority | 11,501 | 38.0 | |||
Turnout | 30,309 | 66.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Hastings by-election, 1937[3] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Maurice Robert Hely-Hutchinson | 18,428 | 62.1 | ||
Labour | W W Wood | 11,244 | 37.9 | ||
Majority | 7,184 | 24.2 | |||
Turnout | 65.3 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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 and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Maurice Robert Hely-Hutchinson
- Labour: W W Wood[5]
Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1945: Hastings[3] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key | 14,105 | 51.8 | ||
Labour | Capt. Lewis Gassman | 10,580 | 38.8 | ||
Independent Progressive | Sydney Muller Parkman | 2,564 | 9.4 | n/a | |
Majority | 3,525 | 13.0 | |||
Turnout | 74.9 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 British General Election Results 1885-1918, Craig
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ FWS Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
- 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)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)