Southampton (UK Parliament constituency)

Southampton
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1295–1950
Number of members	two

Southampton was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in the British House of Commons. Centred on the town of Southampton, it returned two members of parliament (MPs) from 1295 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1295–1660

Parliament	First member	Second member
1307	Sir William Russell of Yaverland[1]
1386	John Penkestone	Roger Mascall[2]
1388 (February)	William Maple	John Scarlet[2]
1388 (September)	Nicholas Sherwind	John Bigard[2]
1390 (January)	William Maple	Thomas Appleby[2]
1390 (November)
1391	William Maple	Thomas Appleby[2]
1393	William Maple	Thomas Appleby[2]
1394	John Penkestone	Thomas Appleby[2]
1395	Thomas Appleby	Thomas Marlborough[2]
1397 (January)	Thomas Appleby	John Dering[2]
1397 (September)	Walter Lange	John Dering[2]
1399	Thomas Middleton	Richard Bradway[2]
1401
1402	Thomas Middleton	Thomas Marlborough[2]
1404 (January)
1404 (October)
1406	Walter Lange	John Penkestone[2]
1407
1410
1411	John Shipton	Thomas Marlborough[2]
1413 (February)
1413 (May)	Thomas Armorer	William Soper[2]
1414 (April)	Thomas Armorer	Thomas Marlborough[2]
1414 (November)	William Soper	Thomas Marlborough[2]
1415	Thomas Marlborough	Benedict Wichford[2]
1416 (March)	Thomas Marlborough	Benedict Wichford[2]
1416 (October)
1417	John Lucas	William Chamberlain[2]
1419	William Soper	William Chamberlain[2]
1420	William Soper	William Chamberlain[2]
1421 (May)	Richard Thornes	Thomas Marlborough[2]
1421 (December)	William Soper	John Mascall[2]
1510–1515	No names known[3]
1523	Nicholas Dey	?[3]
1529	Nicholas Dey	John Mill[3]
1536	Nicholas Dey	?[3]
1539	John Mill	John Huttoft[3]
1542	John Huttoft	?[3]
1545	?
1547	Sir Robert Southwell	Thomas Mill[3]
1553 (March)	James Stonard	?[3]
1553 (October)	Sir Francis Fleming	Thomas Mill[3]
1554 (April)	Richard Butler	James Brande[3]
1554 (November)	James Brande	James Stonard[3]
1555	James Brande	Thomas Fassmyn[3]
1558	John Staveley	James Brande[3]
1559	Thomas Beckingham	Edward Wilmott[4]
1563	John Caplyn	James Brande[4]
1571	Edward Horsey	Sir John Croke[4]
1572	Sir Henry Wallop, posted to Ireland , replaced in 1581 by Fulke Greville	Nicholas Caplyn[4]
1584	Thomas Digges	Thomas Godard[4]
1586	John Penruddock	William Thorley[4]
1588	Thomas Wilkes	Richard Goddard[4]
1593	Sir Thomas Wilkes	Thomas Heton[4]
1597	William Wallop	Francis Bacon, sat for Ipswich, repl. by Sir Oliver Lambert[4]
1601	Thomas Fleming	Thomas Lambert[4]
1604	Sir Thomas Fleming, made judge and repl. in 1604 by Sir Thomas Fleming	Sir John Jeffrys
1614	Sir Thomas Fleming	Thomas Cheeke
1621–1622	Sir Thomas Fleming	Henry Sherfield
1624	Sir John Mill, 1st Baronet	Henry Sherfield, sat for Salisbury, repl. by John Bonde
1625	Sir John Mill, 1st Baronet	George Gallop
1626	Sir John Mill, 1st Baronet	George Gallop
1628	John Major	George Gallop
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned
1640 (April)	Sir John Mill, 1st Baronet	Thomas Levington
1640 (November)	George Gallop	Edward Exton
1653	Southampton not represented in Barebones Parliament
1654	John Lisle	(one seat only)
1656	John Lisle	(one seat only)
1659	Thomas Knollys	Roger Gallop
1659	Edward Exton

MPs 1660–1832

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1660		William Stanley			Robert Richbell
1661		Sir Richard Ford (died 1678)			William Legge (died 1670)
1670					Thomas Knollys
1678		Sir Benjamin Newland
1679 (February)
1679 (August)					Sir Charles Wyndham
1681
1685
1689					Richard Brett
1689					Edward Fleming
1689					Sir Charles Wyndham
1698					John Smith
1699		Roger Mompesson
January 1701					Mitford Crow
November 1701		Adam de Cardonnel
1702					Frederick Tylney
1705					Viscount Woodstock
1708					Simeon Stuart
1710					Richard Fleming
1712		Roger Harris
1715		Thomas Lewis
1722					Thomas Missing
1727		Robert Eyre			Anthony Henley
1729 by-election		Sir William Heathcote
1734					John Conduitt
1737 by-election					Thomas Lee Dummer
1741		Peter Delmé			Edward Gibbon Senior
1747					Anthony Langley Swymmer
1754		Hans Stanley
1760 by-election					Henry Dawkins
1768					The Viscount Palmerston
1774					John Fleming
January 1780 by-election		John 'Mad Jack' Fuller
Sep 1780					Hans Sloane
1784		John Fleming			James Amyatt
1790		Henry Martin
1795 by-election		George Henry Rose
1806					Arthur Atherley
1807					Josias Jackson
1812					Arthur Atherley
March 1818 by-election		William Chamberlayne
Jun 1818					Sir William Champion de Crespigny, Bt
1826					Abel Rous Dottin
Jan. 1830 by-election		James Barlow-Hoy
1831		Arthur Atherley			John Storey Penleaze

MPs 1832–1950

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		James Barlow-Hoy[5]	Conservative		Arthur Atherley	Liberal
1833[5]		John Storey Penleaze	Liberal
1835		James Barlow-Hoy	Conservative		Abel Rous Dottin	Conservative
1837		Viscount Duncan	Liberal
1841[6]		Lord Bruce	Conservative		Charles Cecil Martyn	Conservative
1842 by-election[6]		Humphrey St John-Mildmay	Conservative		George William Hope	Conservative
1847		Sir Alexander Cockburn	Liberal		Brodie McGhie Willcox	Liberal
1857 by-election		Thomas Matthias Weguelin	Liberal
1859		William Digby Seymour
1862 by-election					William Anderson Rose	Conservative
1865		Russell Gurney	Conservative		George Moffatt	Liberal
1868					Peter Merrick Hoare	Conservative
1874					Sir Frederick Perkins	Liberal
1878 by-election		Alfred Giles	Conservative
1880		Henry Lee	Liberal		Charles Parker Butt	Liberal
1883 by-election					Alfred Giles	Conservative
1885		Sir John Edmund Commerell	Conservative
1888 by-election		Francis Henry Evans	Liberal
1892					Tankerville Chamberlayne	Conservative
1895		Sir John Simeon, Bt.	Liberal Unionist
1896 by-election					Sir Francis Henry Evans	Liberal
1900					Tankerville Chamberlayne	Conservative
1906		Sir Ivor Philipps	Liberal		William Dudley Ward	Liberal
1922		Edwin King Perkins	Conservative		Lord Apsley	Conservative
1929		Ralph Morley	Labour		Tommy Lewis	Labour
1931		William Craven-Ellis	Conservative		Sir Charles Barrie	Liberal
Feb 1940 by-election					Sir John Reith	National
Nov 1940 by-election					Dr Russell Thomas	National Liberal
1945		Ralph Morley	Labour		Tommy Lewis	Labour
1950	constituency abolished: see Southampton Itchen and Southampton Test

Elections

Elections in the 1830s^[7]

Southampton by-election, 1830: Southampton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Barlow Hoy	437
	Liberal	John Storey Penleaze	175
Majority			262
Turnout

Elections in the 1890s

Chamberlayne & Simeon

General Election August 1895: Southampton[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tankerville Chamberlayne	5,924
	Liberal Unionist	Sir John Stephen Barrington Simeon	5,390
	Liberal	Sir Francis Henry Evans	5,181
	Liberal	H.G. Wilson	4,178
	Ind. Labour Party	James Ramsay MacDonald	867
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

Ivor Philipps

Harry Quelch

General Election January 1906: Southampton[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ivor Philipps	7,032	26.4	+2.5
	Liberal	William Dudley Ward	6,255	23.4	+3.5
	Conservative	Tankerville Chamberlayne	5,754
	Conservative	J Aird jun.	5,535
	Social Democratic Federation	Harry Quelch	2,146
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

Dudley Ward

General Election January 1910: Southampton[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ivor Philipps
	Liberal	William Dudley Ward
	Conservative	Kenneth Robert Balfour
	Conservative	C T Giles
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Southampton[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ivor Philipps	8,496	26.5
	Liberal	William Dudley Ward	8,449	26.4
	Conservative	Kenneth Robert Balfour	7,551	23.6
	Conservative	Sir George Elliot Armstrong	7,535	23.5
Majority			898	2.8
Turnout				80.0
	Liberal hold		Swing
	Liberal hold		Swing

Sir Ivor Philipps

General Election December 1918: Southampton[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Maj-Gen. Sir Ivor Philipps	26,884	36.4
	Liberal	William Dudley Ward	16,843	22.8
	Conservative	Col. Edwin King Perkins	15,548	21.0
	Labour	Thomas Lewis	7,828	10.6
	Labour	Frederick Perriman	6,776	9.2
Majority			1,295	1.8
Turnout				53.7
	Liberal hold		Swing
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1923: Southampton (2 seats) [11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Allen Algernon Bathurst, Lord Apsley	20,453	20.0	-2.0
	Unionist	Edwin King Perkins	20,249	19.8	-4.1
	Labour	Thomas Lewis	17,208	16.9	+0.8
	Labour	Reginald William Sorenson	16,679	16.4	n/a
	Liberal	Francis Jefferies Spranger	13,724	13.5	+1.0
	Liberal	Charles Neville Douglas Dixey	13,657	13.4	+3.3
Majority
Turnout				67.3	-1.2
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Southampton (2 seats) [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Lewis	32,249	22.4
	Labour	Ralph Morley	31,252	21.7
	Unionist	Lord Thirlestane and Boltoun	27,898	19.4
	Unionist	Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid	26,801	18.6
	Liberal	John Howard Whitehouse	12,966	9.0
	Liberal	Arthur Thomas Lamsley	12,836	8.9
Majority			3,354	2.3
Turnout			144,002
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Southampton (2 seats) [13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Craven-Ellis	54,699	33.9
	Liberal National	Sir Charles Barrie	54,269	33.6
	Labour	Thomas Lewis	26,425	16.4
	Labour	Ralph Morley	26,061	16.1	n/a
Majority
Turnout			161,454	75.2
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Southampton (2 seats) [14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Craven-Ellis	44,896	30.0
	Liberal National	Sir Charles Barrie	43,697	29.3
	Labour	Thomas Lewis	30,751	20.6
	Labour	Ralph Morley	30,028	20.1	n/a
Majority
Turnout			149,372	67.87
	Conservative hold		Swing

Notes and references

1. Wiffen, J. H. Historical Memorials of the House of Russell, 1883, vol.1, pp.127–131
2. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
3. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
4. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
5. 1832: a petition was lodged against the election of Barlow-Hoy, and his election was declared void. After scrutiny of the votes, Penleaze was declared elected in 1833
6. A petition was lodged against the result of the 1841 election, and the election of both members was declared void. A by-election was held on 9 August 1842
7. Cave, Edward (1843-01-01). Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Edward Cave. p. 547.
8. David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald, (London: Richard Cohen Books), 1977, p. 38.
9. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
10. British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 (Craig)
11. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
12. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
13. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
14. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

Sources

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)