North Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)

North Lonsdale
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Lancashire
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Lonsdale
Created from	North Lancashire

North Lonsdale was a parliamentary constituency in north Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the two-seat North Lancashire constituency replaced divided by a number of single-seat divisions.

The North Lonsdale Rural District, on which the constituency was based, was at the time an exclave of Lancashire. The area is now in Cumbria.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party[2]
	1885	William George Ainslie	Conservative
	1892	William Smith	Liberal
	1895	Richard Cavendish	Liberal Unionist, later Liberal
	1906	George Haddock	Conservative
1918		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Farrer Herschell

General Election 1885: North Lonsdale [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William George Ainslie	4,166	51.4	n/a
	Liberal	Sir Farrer Herschell	3,944	48.6	n/a
Majority			222	2.8	n/a
Turnout				88.0	n/a
	Conservative win (new seat)

General Election 1886: North Lonsdale [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William George Ainslie	4,063	55.5
	Liberal	WHM Edmunds	3,263	44.5
Majority			800	11.0
Turnout				79.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: North Lonsdale [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Smith	4,203	55.1
	Conservative	WD Crewdson	3,426	44.9
Majority			777	10.2
Turnout				82.6
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1895: North Lonsdale [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Richard Frederick Cavendish	4,313	54.4
	Liberal	Hugh Colin Gustave George Halkett	3,610	45.6
Majority			703	8.8
Turnout				83.8
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: North Lonsdale [7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Richard Frederick Cavendish	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1906: North Lonsdale [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Bahr Haddock	4,121	51.1
	Liberal	Richard Frederick Cavendish	3,942	48.9
Majority			179	2.2
Turnout				82.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: North Lonsdale [9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Bahr Haddock	4,329	51.0
	Liberal	Joseph Bliss	4,160	49.0
Majority			169	2.0
Turnout				87.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: North Lonsdale [10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Bahr Haddock	4,140	50.5
	Liberal	Joseph Bliss	4,066	49.5
Majority			74	1.0
Turnout				84.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3)
2. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 324. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
3. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
4. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
5. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
6. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
7. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
8. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
9. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
10. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)