Bristol North (UK Parliament constituency)

Bristol North
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Major settlements	Bristol
1885–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Bristol North East
Created from	Bristol

Bristol North was a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Bristol wards of District, St James's, and St Paul's, and part of North ward, and the local government district of Stapleton.

1918-1950: The County Borough of Bristol wards of District, St Philip and Jacob North, and Stapleton, and part of Easton ward.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Lewis Fry	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1892	Charles Townsend	Liberal
	1895	Lewis Fry	Liberal Unionist
	1900	Sir Frederick Wills, Bt.	Liberal Unionist
	1906	Augustine Birrell	Liberal
	1918	Edwin Stanley Gange	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Christian Henry Charles Guest	National Liberal
	1923	Walter Henry Ayles	Labour
	1924	Frederick Edward Guest	Liberal
	1929	Walter Henry Ayles	Labour
	1931	Robert Bernays	Liberal
	1936		National Liberal
	1945	William Coldrick	Labour Co-operative
	1950	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1900s

Augustine Birrell

General Election 1906: Bristol North[1] Electorate 13,061
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Augustine Birrell	6,953	63.4	+17.5
	Liberal Unionist	J A Foote	4,011	36.6	-17.5
Majority			2,942	26.8	35.0
Turnout				83.9	+8.9
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+17.5

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Bristol North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Liberal	Edwin Stanley Gange	11,400	60.2
	Labour	James Kaylor	5,007	26.5
	National Party	Ernest Willoughby Petter	2,520	13.3
Majority			6,393	33.8
	Coalition Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Bristol North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Christian Henry Charles Guest	17,495	64.6
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	9,567	35.4
Majority			7,928	29.3
	National Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Bristol North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	10,433	37.5	+1.9
	Liberal	Christian Henry Charles Guest	8,770	31.5	-33.1
	Unionist	Ernest Willoughby Petter	8,643	31.0	n/a
Majority			1,663	6.0	35.0
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+17.5

General Election 1924: Bristol North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Frederick Edward Guest	17,799	59.1
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	12,319	40.9
Majority			5,480	18.2
Turnout				79.6
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1929: Bristol North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	18,619	48.7	+7.8
	Independent Liberal	Rt Hon. Frederick Edward Guest	12,932	33.8	-25.3
	Liberal	John Osborne Marshall Skelton	6,713	17.5	n/a
Majority			5,687	14.9
Turnout				78.1
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Bristol North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Hamilton Bernays	27,040	66.2
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	13,826	33.8
Majority			13,214	32.3
Turnout				80.9
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Bristol North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Hamilton Bernays	20,977	56.5
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	16,149	43.5
Majority			4,828	13.0
Turnout				73.2
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Bristol North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Coldrick	22,819	57.8
	Liberal National	John Henshaw Britton	16,648	42.2
Majority			6,171	15.6
Turnout			39,467	74.0	+1.8
	Labour gain from Liberal National		Swing

• Constituency abolished 1950, with the major part going to Bristol North East

References

1. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)

Coordinates: 51°30′10″N 2°37′04″W / 51.50286°N 2.61783°W