Howdenshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Howdenshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	East Riding of Yorkshire
1885–1950
Created from	East Riding of Yorkshire

Howdenshire was a county constituency in Yorkshire which 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.

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

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Arthur Duncombe	Conservative
	1892	Sir William Wilson-Todd	Conservative
	1906	Henry Harrison-Broadley	Conservative
	1915 by-election	Stanley Jackson	Conservative
	1926 by-election	William Carver	Conservative
	1945	Clifford Glossop	Conservative
	1947 by-election	George Odey	Conservative
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Thomas Fenby

General Election 1918 Howdenshire[1] Electorate 23,481
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Lt-Col. Hon. Francis Stanley Jackson	9,023	67.3
	Liberal	Thomas Davis Fenby	4,384	32.7
Majority			4,639	34.6
Turnout				57.1
	Unionist hold		Swing

• denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922 : Howdenshire [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Hon. Francis Stanley Jackson	10,748	60.5
	National Farmers' Union	H. J. Winn	7,021	39.5
Majority			3,727	21.0
Turnout				71.1	+14.0
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Howdenshire [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Hon. Francis Stanley Jackson	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1924: Howdenshire[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Hon. Francis Stanley Jackson	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

Howdenshire by-election, 1926 [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	William Henton Carver	10,653	54.2	n/a
	Liberal	Frederick Caesar Linfield	6,668	34.0	n/a
	Labour	John William Kneeshaw	2,318	11.8	n/a
Majority			3,985	20.2	n/a
Turnout				73.6	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1929: Howdenshire [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	William Henton Carver	13,823	51.2	-3.0
	Liberal	Edward Baker	13,170	48.8	+14.8
Majority				2.4	-17.8
Turnout				76.8	+3.2
	Unionist hold		Swing	-8.9

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Howdenshire[7] Electorate 36,889
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Henton Carver	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1935: Howdenshire[8] Electorate 41,093
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Henton Carver	18,155	63.9	n/a
	Liberal	Edward Baker	7,837	27.5	n/a
	Labour	J Richardson	2,459	8.6	n/a
Majority			10,318	36.4	n/a
Turnout				69.2	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939/40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Clifford Glossop

General Election 1945: Howdenshire[9] Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Clifford William Hudson Glossop	21,348	55.9
	Labour	T. Neville	11,161	29.2
	Liberal	J. E. Wilson	5,669	14.9
Majority			10,187	26.7
Turnout				71.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Howdenshire by-election, 1947[10] Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George William Odey	23,344
	Labour	T. Neville	9,298
	Liberal	J. E. Wilson	3,819
Majority			14,046
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

1. Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
2. Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
3. Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
4. Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
5. Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
6. Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
7. Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
8. Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
9. UK General Election results: July 1945
10. 1947 By Elections

Sources

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)