East Denbighshire (UK Parliament constituency)

East Denbighshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Denbigh and Wrexham
Created from	Denbighshire

East Denbighshire, formally called the Eastern Division of Denbighshire, was a county constituency in Denbighshire, in Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

History

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when the two-member Denbighshire constituency was divided into Eastern and Western divisions. It was abolished for the 1918 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir George Osborne Morgan, Bt	Liberal
	1897 by-election	Samuel Moss	Liberal
	1906 by-election	Edward George Hemmerde	Liberal
	Dec. 1910	Edward Thomas John	Liberal
	1918	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

George Morgan

General Election 1885: East Denbighshire [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. George Osborne Morgan	3,831	52.7	n/a
	Conservative	Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn	3,438	47.3	n/a
Majority			393	5.4	n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Liberal win (new seat)

General Election 1886: East Denbighshire [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. George Osborne Morgan	3,536	50.2
	Conservative	Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn	3,510	49.8
Majority			26	0.4
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: East Denbighshire [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. George Osborne Morgan	4,189	55.0
	Conservative	Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn	3,423	45.0
Majority			766	10.0
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

Sir G.O. Morgan

General Election 1895: East Denbighshire [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Sir George Osborne Morgan	4,899	61.1
	Conservative	Henry St John Digby Raikes	3,115	38.9
Majority			1,784	22.2
Turnout				83.5
	Liberal hold		Swing

East Denbighshire by-election, 1897[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Samuel Moss	5,175	64.5
	Conservative	Hon. George Thomas Kenyon	2,848	35.5
Majority			2,327	29.0
Turnout				84.4
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

Samuel Moss

General Election 1900: East Denbighshire [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Samuel Moss	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1906: East Denbighshire [7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Samuel Moss	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

E.G. Hemmerde

East Denbighshire by-election, 1906[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward George Hemmerde	5,917	65.4
	Conservative	Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen	3,126	34.6
Majority			2,791	30.8
Turnout				80.9
	Liberal hold		Swing

East Denbighshire by-election, 1909[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward George Hemmerde	6,265	63.9
	Liberal Unionist	Sir Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe	3,544	36.1
Majority			2,721	27.8
Turnout				84.1
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: East Denbighshire [10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward George Hemmerde	6,865	67.4
	Conservative	D Rhys	3,321	32.6
Majority			3544	34.8
Turnout				85.5
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: East Denbighshire [11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Thomas John	6,449
	Conservative	Alfred Hood	3,186
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal 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;

• Liberal: Edward Thomas John
• Unionist: J. Downes Powell^[12]

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, 1885-1918 (Craig)
11. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
12. Liverpool Echo 6 Jul 1914

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 1)