Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)

Camborne
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Falmouth and Camborne
Created from	West Cornwall

Camborne was a county constituency in Cornwall which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Falmouth and Camborne.

Between 1885 and 1918 its official name was The North West or Camborne Division of Cornwall, and it was sometimes referred to simply as North West Cornwall.

Boundaries

Camborne within Cornwall and Devon, 1918–45

1885-1918: Part of the Sessional Division of Penwith East, and the civil parishes of Gwennap and St Agnes.

1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Helston, the Urban Districts of Camborne, Hayle, Phillack, and Redruth, the Rural District of Redruth, in the Rural District of East Kerrier the civil parishes of Constantine, Mabe, and Perranarworthal, in the Rural District of Helston the civil parishes of Crowan and Wendron, and in the Rural District of Truro the civil parishes of Kea, Kenwyn Rural, Perranzabuloe, St Agnes, St Allen, and Tregavethan.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare	Independent Liberal (Radical)
	1886		Liberal
	1895	Arthur Strauss	Liberal Unionist Party
	1900	William Sproston Caine	Liberal
	1903 by-election	Sir Wilfrid Lawson	Liberal
	1906	Albert Edward Dunn	Liberal
	Dec. 1910	Sir Francis Dyke Acland, Bt.	Liberal
	1922	Algernon Henry Moreing	National Liberal
	1923	Leifchild Stratten Jones	Liberal
	1924	Algernon Henry Moreing	Constitutionalist
	1929	Leifchild Stratten Jones	Liberal
	1931	Sir Peter Garnett Agnew	Conservative
1950		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885 [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare	2,926	53.2	n/a
	Liberal	A P Vivian	2,577	46.8	n/a
Majority			349	6.4	n/a
Turnout				77.1	n/a
	Independent Liberal win (new seat)

General Election 1886 [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare	3,156	61.6	n/a
	Liberal Unionist	J D Gay	1,969	38.4	n/a
Majority			1,187	23.2	n/a
Turnout				71.8
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892 [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare	3,073	53.8	-7.8
	Liberal Unionist	Arthur Strauss	2,635	46.2	+7.8
Majority			438	7.6	-15.6
Turnout				75.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	-7.8

General Election 1895 [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Arthur Strauss	3,166	53.9	+7.7
	Liberal	Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare	2,704	46.1	-7.7
Majority			462		15.4
Turnout				75.3	+0.3
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+7.7

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900 [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Sproston Caine	3,101	50.9
	Liberal Unionist	Arthur Strauss	2,993	49.1
Majority			108	1.8
Turnout
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing

Camborne by-election, 1903 [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Wilfrid Lawson	3,558	55.4	+4.5
	Liberal Unionist	Arthur Strauss	2,869	44.6	-4.5
Majority			689	10.8	+9.0
Turnout				74.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.5

Edward Dunn

General Election 1906 [7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Albert Edward Dunn	4,614	65.0
	Conservative	Sir Thomas Hewitt	2,384	33.5
	Social Democratic Federation	John Joseph Jones	109	1.5
Majority			2,230	31.5
Turnout				77.2
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910 [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Albert Edward Dunn	5,027	66.0	+1.0
	Liberal Unionist	Norman G Chamberlain	2,587	34.0	+0.5
Majority				32.0	+1.0
Turnout				81.2	+4.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.5

General Election December 1910 [9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Francis Dyke Acland	4,419	65.5	-0.5
	Liberal Unionist	Dr George Coates	2,326	34.5	+0.5
Majority			2,093	31.0	-1.0
Turnout				71.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.5

General Election 1914/15: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Liberal: Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland
• Unionist:

General Election 1914/15: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1914 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

• Liberal: Francis Acland

Francis Acland

General Election 1918[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland	7,078	52.0
	Labour	George Nicholls	6,546	48.0	n/a
Majority			532	4.0
Turnout				41.8
	Liberal hold		Swing

• No Coupon was issued

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Camborne [11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Algernon Henry Moreing	8,191	39.7
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Leifchild Stratten Jones	7,923	38.4
	Labour	T Proctor	4,512	21.9
Majority			268	1.3
Turnout				60.5
	National Liberal gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1923: Camborne [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	Rt Hon. Leifchild Stratten Jones	11,794	59.3	+20.9
	Liberal	Algernon Henry Moreing	8,096	40.7	+1.0
Majority			3,698	18.6	19.9
Turnout				58.0	-2.5
	Independent Liberal gain from Liberal		Swing	+10.0

• The local Liberal Association was unable to agree to a candidate, but Moreing was recognised as the official candidate by Liberal Party HQ. Upon election, Jones took the Liberal whip.

General Election 1924[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutionalist	Algernon Henry Moreing	9,530	42.9
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Leifchild Stratten Jones	7,220	32.5
	Labour	Francis Arnold Polgrean Rowe	5,477	24.6
Majority			2,310	10.4
Turnout				64.6
	Constitutionalist gain from Liberal		Swing

• Moreing later took the Unionist whip.

General Election 1929: Camborne [14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Leifchild Stratten Jones	11,176	35.8	+3.3
	Unionist	Algernon Henry Moreing	10,145	32.6	-10.3
	Labour	H J Sharman	7,870	25.3	+0.7
	Independent	J C Roberts	1,976	6.3	n/a
Majority			1,031	3.2	13.6
Turnout				70.8	+6.2
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+6.8

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Garnett Agnew	14,644	43.4
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Leifchild Stratten Jones	10,840	32.1
	Ind. Labour Party	Kate Florence Spurrell	8,280	24.5
Majority			3,824	11.3
Turnout			33,784	75.8
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1935[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Garnett Agnew	14,826	48.3	+4.9
	Liberal	Sir Walter Peacock	7,921	25.8	-6.3
	Labour	Harold R G Greaves	7,375	24.0	n/a
	Ind. Labour Party	Kate Florence Spurrell	592	1.9	-22.6
Majority			6,905	22.5	-11.2
Turnout				66.9
	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: Peter Agnew
• Liberal:
• Labour: J J H Moses

General Election 1945[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Com. Peter Garnett Agnew	12,257	37.1	-11.2
	Labour	Frank Harold Hayman	11,673	35.3	+11.3
	Liberal	Dr Thomas Rowland Hill	9,141	27.6	+1.8
Majority			584	1.8
Turnout				64.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

See also

• Camborne and Redruth (UK Parliament constituency)
• Falmouth and Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)

References

1. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
2. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
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 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
11. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
12. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
13. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
14. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
15. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
16. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
17. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 by FWS Craig