Haltemprice (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 53°45′04″N 0°25′41″W / 53.751°N 0.428°W
Haltemprice | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1955–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Beverley and Boothferry[1] |
Kingston upon Hull, Haltemprice | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1950–1955 | |
Number of members | one |
Haltemprice (which from 1950-1955 was officially known as Kingston upon Hull, Haltemprice) was a constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire, a traditional sub-division of the historic county of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
It was the constituency of the fictional ultra-right Tory MP, Alan B'Stard, in The New Statesman, a TV series which began after the actual constituency was abolished in 1983.
Boundaries
1950-1955: The Urban District of Haltemprice, and the County Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull wards of Pickering and St Andrew's.
1955-1983: The Municipal Borough of Beverley, the Urban District of Haltemprice, and the Rural District of Beverley (the civil parishes of Beswick, Bishop Burton, Brantingham, Cherry Burton, Dalton Holme, Ellerker, Elloughton, Etton, Leconfield, Leven, Lockington, Lund, Molescroft, Newbald, North Ferriby, Routh, Rowley, Skidby, South Cave, Swanland, Tickton, Walkington, Wawne, Welton, and Woodmansey). The two Kingston-upon-Hull wards were transferred to the Hull West constituency.
In the 1983 redistribution, which reflected the major local government boundary changes of 1974, this constituency disappeared. Most of it became the new seat of Beverley, while the remainder of the constituency contributed 11.6% of the new Boothferry seat.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
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1950 | Richard Law | Conservative | Resigned 1954 | |
1954 by-election | Patrick Wall | Conservative | ||
1983 | constituency abolished: see Beverley & Boothferry |
Election results
Elections in the 1970s
General Election 1979: Haltemprice[2] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Patrick Henry Bligh Wall | 34,525 | 55.8 | ||
Liberal | V. Bingham | 17,148 | 29.4 | ||
Labour | J. G. Lowe | 8,846 | 15.1 | ||
Majority | 15,272 | 26.1 | |||
Turnout | 83.4 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election October 1974: Haltemprice[3] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Patrick Henry Bligh Wall | 28,206 | 44.3 | ||
Liberal | R. Walker | 16,545 | 29.0 | ||
Labour | L. Cross | 12,362 | 21.6 | ||
Majority | 11,661 | 20.4 | |||
Turnout | 74.9 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election February 1974: Haltemprice[4] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Patrick Henry Bligh Wall | 31,720 | 46.3 | ||
Liberal | R. Walker | 19,896 | 31.8 | ||
Labour | L. Cross | 11,031 | 17.6 | ||
Majority | 11,824 | 18.9 | |||
Turnout | 82.9 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1970: Haltemprice[5] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Patrick Henry Bligh Wall | 30,042 | 53.6 | ||
Labour | Christopher M. Denton | 15,862 | 28.3 | ||
Liberal | Stuart C. Haywood | 10,129 | 18.0 | ||
Majority | 14,180 | 25.3 | |||
Turnout | 74.8 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
General Election 1966: Haltemprice[6] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Patrick Henry Bligh Wall | 25,566 | 54.6 | ||
Labour | Mrs. Phyllis Clarke | 13,017 | 27.8 | ||
Liberal | Sydney Burnley | 8,277 | 17.7 | ||
Majority | 12,549 | 26.8 | |||
Turnout | 76.5 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1964: Haltemprice[7] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Patrick Henry Bligh Wall | 26,131 | 56.2 | ||
Labour | Peter Allison | 10,360 | 22.3 | ||
Liberal | Sydney Burnley | 9,986 | 21.5 | ||
Majority | 15,771 | 33.9 | |||
Turnout | 79.5 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
General Election 1959: Haltemprice[8] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Patrick Henry Bligh Wall | 26,102 | 60.1 | ||
Labour | David Nicholson Bancroft | 9,750 | 22.5 | ||
Liberal | W. Ivor Cooper | 7,562 | 17.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,352 | 37.7 | |||
Turnout | 80.5 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1955: Haltemprice[9] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Patrick Henry Bligh Wall | 26,162 | 68.9 | ||
Labour | Harry Roberts | 11,820 | 31.1 | ||
Majority | 16,352 | 37.7 | |||
Turnout | 74.8 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Haltemprice by-election, 1954[10] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Patrick Henry Bligh Wall | 16,107 | |||
Labour | Charles W. Bridges | 9,974 | |||
Majority | 6,133 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1951: Kingston-upon-Hull Haltemprice[11] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Richard Kidston Law | 27,167 | 58.1 | ||
Labour | Charles W. Bridges | 19,584 | 41.9 | ||
Majority | 7,583 | 16.2 | |||
Turnout | 82.8 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1950: Kingston-upon-Hull Haltemprice[12] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Richard Kidston Law | 23,482 | 49.6 | N/A | |
Labour | T. L. Addy Taylor | 18,156 | 38.3 | N/A | |
Liberal | Albert Burrell | 5,723 | 12.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,326 | 11.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 85.1 | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
References
- ↑ "'Haltemprice', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ↑ UK General Election results: May 1979
- ↑ UK General Election results: October 1974
- ↑ UK General Election results: February 1974
- ↑ UK General Election results: 1970
- ↑ UK General Election results: March 1966
- ↑ UK General Election results: October 1964
- ↑ UK General Election results: October 1959
- ↑ UK General Election results: May 1955
- ↑ 1954 By Elections
- ↑ UK General Election results: October 1951
- ↑ UK General Election results: February 1950
Sources
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)