Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)

Lonsdale
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Lancashire
1918–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Morecambe and Lonsdale
Created from	Lancaster and North Lonsdale

Lonsdale was a county constituency in north Lancashire. 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 system.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Claude William Henry Lowther	Unionist
	1922	Nigel Kennedy	Unionist
	1923	Henry Maden	Liberal
	1924	David Lindsay, Lord Balniel	Unionist
	1940	Ian Fraser	Conservative
	1950	constituency abolished

Elections

General Election 1918: Lonsdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Lt-Col. Claude William Henry Lowther	9,662	52.5	n/a
	Labour	David Hunter	4,472	24.3	n/a
	Liberal	Joseph Bliss	4,276	23.2	n/a
Majority				28.2	n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Unionist win

• endorsed by Coalition Government

Election in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Lonsdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Myles Storr Nigel Kennedy	12,030
	Liberal	Henry Maden	5,790
	Labour	Thomas Marshall Scott	4,024
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 6 December 1923: Lonsdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Maden	11,186	52.4	+25.9
	Unionist	Myles Storr Nigel Kennedy	10,176	47.6
Majority			1,010	4.8	33.4
Turnout				75.4
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election, 29 October 1924: Lonsdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	David Alexander Robert Lindsay, Lord Balniel	13,460	57.4
	Liberal	Henry Maden	10,002	42.6
Majority			3,458	14.8
Turnout				83.3
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election, 30 May 1929: Lonsdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	David Alexander Robert Lindsay, Lord Balniel	13,612	47.4	-10.0
	Liberal	Henry Maden	7,805	27.2	-15.4
	Labour	Joseph Henderson	7,303	25.4	n/a
Majority			5,087	20.2	+5.4
Turnout				82.7	-0.6
	Unionist hold		Swing	+2.7

Election in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Lonsdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Alexander Robert Lindsay, Lord Balniel	17,423	59.6
	Liberal	Henry Maden	11,821	40.4
Majority			5,602	19.2
Turnout			29,244	83.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Lonsdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Alexander Robert Lindsay, Lord Balniel	16,338
	Labour	R S Armstrong	6,946		n/a
	Liberal	Henry Maden	5,391
Majority
Turnout
	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: Lord Balniel

• Labour:
• Liberal:

Lonsdale by-election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Jocelyn Ian Fraser	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1945: Lonsdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Jocelyn Ian Fraser	18,571		n/a
	Labour	Sidney Wright Grundy	13,436		n/a
Majority					n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Sources

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