North Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)

North Cumberland
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Penrith and The Border
Created from	Eskdale and Penrith

North Cumberland (also "Cumberland Northern"^[1][2] was a parliamentary constituency in Cumberland 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 system of election.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

The Urban Districts of Holme Cultram and Wigton, the Rural Districts of Brampton, Carlisle, and Longtown, and part of the Rural District of Wigton.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Christopher Lowther	Coalition Conservative†
	1922	Donald Howard	Conservative
	1926 by-election	Sir Fergus Graham	Conservative
	1935	Wilfrid Roberts	Liberal
1950		Constituency abolished

† In January 1921 Lowther defected to the Independent Parliamentary Group led by Horatio Bottomley.^[3]

Election results

Election in the 1910s

General Election 14 December 1918:[4] Electorate 21,796
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Maj. Hon. Christopher William Lowther	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist win

Election in the 1920s

General Election 15 November 1922: Cumberland North [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard	8,815	50.8	n/a
	Liberal	Hon. Geoffrey William Algernon Howard	8,544	49.2	n/a
Majority			271	1.6	n/a
Turnout				79.9	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 6 December 1923: Cumberland North [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard	9,288	50.6	-0.2
	Liberal	Richard Durning Holt	9,070	49.4	+0.2
Majority			218	1.2	-0.4
Turnout				83.2	+3.3
	Unionist hold		Swing	-0.2

General Election 29 October 1924: Cumberland North [7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard	10,586	54.2	+3.6
	Liberal	Richard Durning Holt	6,821	34.9
	Labour	B. Brooke	2,125	10.9	n/a
Majority			3,765	19.3
Turnout				86.0	+2.8
	Unionist hold		Swing

North Cumberland by-election, 1926 [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Frederick Fergus Graham	8,867	47.8	-6.4
	Liberal	Richard Durning Holt	6,871	37.1	+2.2
	Labour	H. W. McIntyre	2,793	15.1	+4.2
Majority				10.7
Turnout				82.0
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 30 May 1929: Cumberland North [9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Frederick Fergus Graham	10,392	44.9
	Liberal	Richard Durning Holt	9,661	41.7
	Labour	C. A. O'Donnell	3,092	13.4
Majority			731	3.2	-7.5
Turnout				83.7
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 27 October 1931: [10] Electorate 28,085
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Fergus Graham	12,504	52.7
	Liberal	Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts	11,277	47.3
Majority			1,277	5.4
Turnout				84.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 14 November 1935: [11] Electorate 28,769
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts	12,521	51.9
	Conservative	Sir Frederick Fergus Graham	11,627
Majority
Turnout				83.9	-0.7
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

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;

• Liberal: Wilfrid Roberts
• Conservative:

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945: [12] Electorate 31,588
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts	12,053	50.4
	Conservative	RN Carr	11,855	49.6
Majority			198	0.83
Turnout				75.7
	Liberal hold		Swing

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)

1. Cumberland Northern PDivCon Vision of Britain
2. MPs for Cumberland Northern Hansard Millbank
3. "Major Lowther's Secession". The Times. 20 January 1921. p. 10.
4. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
5. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
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7. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
8. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
9. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
10. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
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12. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig