Holderness (UK Parliament constituency)

Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	East Riding of Yorkshire
1885–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Beverley
Created from	East Riding of Yorkshire

Holderness was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holderness area of the East Riding of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	George Richard Bethell	Conservative
	1900	Arthur Stanley Wilson	Conservative
	1922	William Audley Bowdler	Liberal
	1923	Sir Samuel Servington Savery	Conservative
	1939 by-election	Joseph Gurney Braithwaite	Conservative
	1950	constituency abolished

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945:
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Gurney Braithwaite	25,181
	Labour	F Lawson	23,036
	Liberal	Roger Thomas Baldwin Fulford	10,165
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Election in the 1930s

Holderness by-election, 1939 [1] Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Gurney Braithwaite	17,742	39.4	-14.2
	Liberal	Aline Mackinnon	11,590	25.7	+0.8
	Labour	J. L. Schultz	9,629	21.3	-0.2
	Independent	Raleigh Chichester-Constable	6,103	13.5	n/a
Majority
Turnout

General Election, 14 November 1935: Holderness[2] Electorate 57,466
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Servington Savery	22,229	53.6	-8.1
	Liberal	Aline Mackinnon	10,348	24.9	-5.1
	Labour	J. L. Schulz	8,906	21.5	+13.1
Majority			11,901	28.7	-3.0
Turnout			41,503	72.2	-9.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.5

General Election 27 October 1931: Holderness[3] Electorate 42,734
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Servington Savery	21,560	61.7
	Liberal	Aline Mackinnon	10,471	30.0
	Labour	J. L. Schulz	2,927	8.4
Majority			11,089	31.7
Turnout			34,958	81.8

Election in the 1920s

UK general election, 1929: Holderness[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Samuel Servington Savery	14,544	47.6	-8.4
	Liberal	Charles Neville Douglas Dixey	13,525	44.3	+0.3
	Labour	Joseph William Hewitt	2,481	8.1	n/a
Majority			1,019	3.3	-8.7
Turnout				80.1	-1.0
	Unionist hold		Swing	-4.4

UK general election, 1924: Holderness[5] Electorate 28,449
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Servington Savery	12,911	56.0
	Liberal	Charles Neville Douglas Dixey	10,162	44.0
Majority			2,749	12.0
Turnout			23,073	81.1

UK general election, 1923: Holderness [6] Electorate 28,085
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Samuel Servington Savery	11,099	50.6	+3.5
	Liberal	William Audley Bowdler	10,846	49.4	-3.5
Majority			253	1.2	7.0
Turnout				78.1	-1.0
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+3.5

UK general election, 1922: Holderness[7] Electorate 27,421
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Audley Bowdler	11,479
	Conservative	Arthur Stanley Wilson	10,200
Majority
Turnout

Election in the 1910s

Fred Maddison

General Election 14 December 1918:
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Capt. Arthur Stanley Wilson	9,387
	Liberal	Frederick Maddison	5,521
Majority
Turnout

References

1. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.
2. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.
3. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.
4. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
5. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
6. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
7. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.