Whitehaven (UK Parliament constituency)
Whitehaven | |
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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.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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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 by-election | Joseph Bede Symonds | Labour | |
1970 | Jack Cunningham | Labour | |
1983 | constituency renamed (with unchanged boundaries), see Copeland |
Election results
Elections in the 1970s
General Election 1979: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Jack Cunningham | 22,626 | 52.44 | ||
Conservative | J. Somers | 17,171 | 39.80 | ||
Liberal | E. Akister | 2,559 | 5.93 | ||
Independent | W. Dixon | 790 | 1.83 | ||
Majority | 5,455 | 12.64 | |||
Turnout | 81.74 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election October 1974: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Jack Cunningham | 21,832 | 55.56 | ||
Conservative | P.B. Vose | 11,899 | 30.28 | ||
Liberal | M. Gilbert | 5,563 | 14.16 | ||
Majority | 9,933 | 25.28 | |||
Turnout | 77.10 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election February 1974: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Jack Cunningham | 23,229 | 59.42 | ||
Conservative | P.B. Vose | 15,867 | 40.58 | ||
Majority | 7,362 | 18.83 | |||
Turnout | 77.50 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1970: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Jack Cunningham | 22,974 | 58.32 | ||
Conservative | W.G. McKay | 16,418 | 41.68 | ||
Majority | 6,556 | 16.64 | |||
Turnout | 78.27 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
General Election 1966: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Joseph Bede Symonds | 22,726 | 61.99 | ||
Conservative | J.A. Kevill | 13,935 | 38.01 | ||
Majority | 8,791 | 23.98 | |||
Turnout | 78.79 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1964: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Joseph Bede Symonds | 23,267 | 60.11 | ||
Conservative | Edmund Brudenell | 15,440 | 39.89 | ||
Majority | 7,827 | 20.22 | |||
Turnout | 82.02 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
General Election 1959: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Joseph Bede Symonds | 22,783 | 57.77 | ||
Conservative | H.J. Pedraza | 16,653 | 42.23 | ||
Majority | 6,130 | 15.54 | |||
Turnout | 84.54 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1955: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Frank Anderson | 22,348 | 58.04 | ||
Conservative | G.W. Iredell | 16,154 | 41.96 | ||
Majority | 6,194 | 16.09 | |||
Turnout | 83.78 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1951: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Frank Anderson | 23,190 | 59.19 | ||
Conservative | G.W. Iredell | 15,990 | 40.81 | ||
Majority | 7,200 | 18.38 | |||
Turnout | 85.24 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1950: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Frank Anderson | 22,850 | 60.00 | ||
Conservative | W. Nunn | 15,233 | 40.00 | ||
Majority | 7,617 | 20.00 | |||
Turnout | 87.04 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Election in the 1940s
General Election 1945: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Frank Anderson | 18,568 | 61.10 | ||
Conservative | W.O. Hill | 11,821 | 38.90 | ||
Majority | 6,747 | 22.20 | |||
Turnout | 82.96 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1935: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Frank Anderson | 14,794 | 48.92 | ||
Conservative | William Nunn | 14,442 | 47.76 | ||
Ind. Labour Party | Tom Stephenson | 1,004 | 3.32 | ||
Majority | 352 | 1.16 | |||
Turnout | 86.98 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
General Election 1931: Whitehaven | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | William Nunn | 16,286 | 53.33 | ||
Labour | Morgan Philips Price | 14,255 | 46.67 | ||
Majority | 2,031 | 6.65 | |||
Turnout | 89.62 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1900s
General Election 1906: Whitehaven[1]
Electorate 2,945 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | William John Dalzell Burnyeat | 1,507 | 55.8 | ||
Conservative | J. Robertson-Walker | 1,194 | 44.2 | ||
Majority | 313 | 11.6 | |||
Turnout | 2,701 | 68.2 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Sources
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 330. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 208. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 317. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
References
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)