Stockton-on-Tees (UK Parliament constituency)

Stockton-on-Tees
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Cleveland, England
1868–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Stockton North and Stockton South
Created from	South Durham

Stockton-on-Tees is a former borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency was abolished in the boundary changes which took effect at the 1983 general election, and was replaced by the two new constituencies of Stockton North and Stockton South.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The townships of Stockton and Thornaby, part of the township of Linthorpe, and part of the parish of Norton.

1918-1950: The Municipal Boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees and Thornaby-on-Tees.

1950-1983: The Municipal Borough of Stockton-on-Tees. Thornaby was transferred to Middlesbrough West.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1868	Joseph Dodds	Liberal
	1888 by-election	Sir Horace Davey	Liberal
	1892	Thomas Wrightson	Conservative
	1895	Jonathan Samuel	Liberal
	1900	Sir Robert Ropner	Conservative
	Jan. 1910	Jonathan Samuel	Liberal
	1917 by-election	John Bertrand Watson	Liberal
	1923	Robert Strother Stewart	Liberal
	1924	Harold Macmillan	Unionist
	1929	Frederick Fox Riley	Labour
	1931	Harold Macmillan	Conservative
	1945	George Chetwynd	Labour
	1962 by-election	Bill Rodgers	Labour
	1981	Bill Rodgers	SDP
1983		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Stockton-on-Tees
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Thomas Rodgers	34,917	53.10
	Conservative	Robert Brannock Jones	23,790	36.18
	Liberal	S.E. Dunleavy	6,074	9.24
	National Front	A. Bruce	384	0.58
	Independent	V. Fletcher	343	0.52
	Communist	J. Smith	243	0.37
Majority			11,127	16.92
Turnout				73.71
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Stockton-on-Tees
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Thomas Rodgers	32,962	55.77
	Conservative	Brian Stanley Mawhinney	18,488	31.28
	Liberal	N. Long	6,906	11.68
	Independent	V. Fletcher	750	1.27
Majority			14,474	24.49
Turnout				69.11
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Stockton-on-Tees Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Thomas Rodgers	37,876	59.02
	Conservative	B. Sloan	25,505	39.74
	Communist	E. Jones	791	1.23
Majority			12,371	19.28
Turnout				75.96
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1970: Stockton-on-Tees
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Thomas Rodgers	22,283	54.87
	Conservative	P.V. Radford	17,960	44.22
	Communist	E. Jones	369	0.91
Majority			4,323	10.64
Turnout				73.09
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Stockton-on-Tees
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Thomas Rodgers	24,248	59.68
	Conservative	P.V. Radford	15,547	38.38
	Communist	E. Jones	710	1.75
Majority			8,701	21.48
Turnout				77.38
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1964: Stockton-on-Tees
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Thomas Rodgers	22,011	50.52
	Conservative	R.W.T. Bray	15,424	35.40
	Liberal	John Henry Mulholland	6,130	14.07
Majority			6,587	15.12
Turnout				81.79
	Labour hold		Swing

Stockton-on-Tees by-election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Thomas Rodgers	19,694	45.2
	Conservative	Gerald Coles	12,112	27.8
	Liberal	John Henry Mulholland	11,722	26.9
Majority			7,582
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Stockton-on-Tees
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Roland Chetwynd	23,961	53.67
	Conservative	Gerald Coles	20,684	46.33
Majority			3,277	7.34
Turnout				83.88
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Stockton-on-Tees
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Roland Chetwynd	23,422	54.43
	Conservative	C.B. Longbottom	19,607	45.57
Majority			3,815	8.87
Turnout				83.77
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Stockton-on-Tees
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Roland Chetwynd	24,558	55.73
	Conservative	H.C.R. Laslett	19,511	44.27
Majority			5,047	11.45
Turnout				87.96
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1950: Stockton-on-Tees
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Roland Chetwynd	23,475	54.03
	Conservative	R.A. Lamb	16,495	37.97
	Liberal	Anthony Graeme Gamble	3,475	8.00
Majority			6,980	16.07
Turnout				89.44
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945:Stockton-on-Tees^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Roland Chetwynd	27,128	55.1	+14.8
	Conservative	Capt. Rt Hon. Maurice Harold Macmillan	18,464	37.4	-11.5
	Liberal	Gordon P Evans	3,718	7.5	-3.3
Majority			8,664	17.7	26.3
Turnout				81.2	-5.1
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+13.1

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: Harold Macmillan
Labour: J Erskine Harper^[2]
Liberal: Gerald Tossell^[3]

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935:Stockton-on-Tees^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maurice Harold Macmillan	23,285	48.9	-12.7
	Labour	Arabella Susan Lawrence	19,217	40.3	+1.9
	Liberal	Gerald Leslie Tossell	5,158	10.8	n/a
Majority			4,068	8.6	-14.6
Turnout				86.3	-2.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	-7.3

General Election 1931:Stockton-on-Tees^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maurice Harold Macmillan	29,199	61.6	+25.5
	Labour	Frederick Fox Riley	18,168	38.4	-2.8
Majority			11,031	23.2	28.3
Turnout				88.4
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+14.1

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Stockton-on-Tees^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frederick Fox Riley	18,961	41.2	+8.1
	Unionist	Maurice Harold Macmillan	16,572	36.1	-5.9
	Liberal	John Cecil Hayes	10,407	22.7	-2.2
Majority			2,389	5.1	14.0
Turnout
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+7.0

General Election 1924:Stockton-on-Tees^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Maurice Harold Macmillan	15,163	42.0
	Labour	Frederick Fox Riley	11,948	33.1
	Liberal	Robert Strother Stewart	8,971	24.9
Majority			3,215	8.9
Turnout				90.2
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1923:Stockton-on-Tees^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Strother Stewart	11,734	34.5	+6.8
	Unionist	Maurice Harold Macmillan	11,661	34.3	n/a
	Labour	Frederick Fox Riley	10,619	31.2	-3.1
Majority			73	0.2	3.9
Turnout				87.5	+1.6
	Liberal gain from National Liberal		Swing	n/a

General Election 1922:Stockton-on-Tees^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	John Bertrand Watson	12,396	38.0	n/a
	Labour	Frederick Fox Riley	11,183	34.3	n/a
	Liberal	Robert Strother Stewart	9,041	27.7	n/a
Majority			1,213	3.7	n/a
Turnout				85.9	n/a
	National Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

Bertrand Watson

General Election 1918:Stockton-on-Tees^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Bertrand Watson	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

endorsed by the Coalition Government

References

↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
↑ The Liberal Magazine, 1939
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig

Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

Sources

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)

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