Taunton (UK Parliament constituency)

Taunton
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Taunton in Somerset for the 1997-2010 general election.
Location of Somerset within England.
County	Somerset
Major settlements	Taunton
1918–2010
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Taunton Deane
1295–1918
Number of members	Two (1295-1885), One (1885-1918)
Type of constituency	Borough constituency

Taunton was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessors from 1295 to 2010, taking its name from the town of Taunton in Somerset. Until 1918, it was a parliamentary borough, electing two Member of Parliaments (MPs) between 1295 and 1885 and one from 1885 to 1918; the name was then transferred to a county constituency, electing one MP.

In the boundary changes that came into effect at the general election of 2010, the Boundary Commission for England replaced Taunton with a modified constituency called Taunton Deane, to reflect the district name.

History

Famous MPs for the borough include Thomas Cromwell.

The 1754 by-election was so fiercely contested that rioting broke out in which two people died.

In the 2005 general election, the victorious Liberal Democrats candidate in Taunton required the smallest percentage swing from the Conservative MP for them to take the seat.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1295–1640

• Constituency created (1295)

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Parliament	First member	Second member
1362	William Portman	?
1363, 1365, 1366, 1368, 1369, 1371	Unknown
1372	William Portman	?
1373, 1376, 1377 (Jan), 1377 (Oct), 1378	Unknown
1379	William Portman	?
1380 (Jan)		?
1380 (Nov), 1381, 1382 (May), 1382 (Oct), 1383 (Feb), 1383 (Oct), 1384 (Apr)	Unknown
1384 (Nov)	William Portman	?
1385		?
1386		William Marchaunt
1388 (Feb)
1388 (Sep)	William Damarle
1390 (Jan)	John Porter
1390 (Nov)	Unknown
1391	William Portman	William Marchaunt
1393	John Porter
1394
1395	Walter Puryham
1397 (Jan)	Robert Coullyng	Robert Eysel
1397 (Sept)	Richard Marchaunt	John Northmore
1399	Walter Puryham	Edmund Rokes
1401	Unknown
1402	William Portman	Ralph Sargor
1404 (Jan), 1404 (Oct)	Unknown
1406	William Portman	Robert Bathe
1407	Richard Marchaunt	John Northmore
1410	Thomas Bacot	Thomas Edward
1411, 1413 (Feb)	Unknown
1413 (May)	John Rydon	Lewis John
1414 (Apr)	John Marchaunt	Edmund Dyer
1414 (Nov)
1415, 1416 (Mar), 1416 (Oct)	Unknown
1417	John Rydon	Walter Portman
1419	Walter Portman	Robert Croke
1420	Robert Croke	William Borde
1421 (May)	Walter Portman
1421 (Dec)		John Bowe
1422		?
1423	Unknown
1425	Walter Portman	?
1426		?
1427		?
1429	Unknown
1431	Walter Portman	?
1432, 1433	Unknown
1435	Walter Portman	?
1437, 1439, 1442, 1445, 1447, 1449 (Feb), 1449 (Nov), 1450, 1453	Unknown
1455	Ralph Legh	?
1459, 1460, 1461, 1463	Unknown
1467	Sir William Danvers	Robert Ashetill
1470	Sir William Danvers	Edward Aysheton
1472	Sir William Danvers	?
1478	Edward Aysheton	Robert Lovelord
1483–1523	Unknown
1529	Thomas Cromwell	William Portman
1536	?Richard Pollard	?William Portman
1547	Sir Nicholas Hare	John Caryll
1553 (Mar)	John Mason	?
1553 (Oct)	James Basset	Jacques Wingfield
1554 (Apr)	William Barne	Oliver Vachell
1554 (Nov)	Thomas Eden	John Norres
1555	Dr Valentine Dale	?
1558		Richard Myrfield
1559		?
1563–7	Miles Sandys	Anthony Leigh
1571	Robert Hill	Richard Blount
1572–81	Roger Hill	Richard Blount[1] Edmund Hodges
1584–5	Maurice Horner	William Goldwell
1586–7	Francis Bacon	John Goldwell
1588–9	Thomas Fisher
1593	William Aubrey, DCL	John Davidge
1597–8	Edward Barker	Edward Hext
1601	John Bond	Daniel Donne, DCL
1604–11		Edward Hext
Addled Parliament (1614)	James Clarke	John Dunn
1621–2	Lewis Pope	Thomas Brereton
Happy Parliament (1624–5)	Roger Prowse
Useless Parliament (1625)	Hugh Portman	Thomas Brereton
1625–6	Sir Robert Gorges	George Browne
1628	Hugh Portman
1629–40	No Parliament summoned

MPs 1640–1885

Year		First member[2]	First party		Second member[3]	Second party
April 1640		Sir William Portman	Royalist		Roger Hill	Parliamentarian
November 1640					George Searle	Parliamentarian
February 1644	Portman disabled from sitting — seat vacant
1645		John Palmer, MD [4]
1653	Taunton was unrepresented in the Barebone's Parliament
1654		Colonel Thomas Gorges			John Gorges
1656					Admiral Robert Blake
January 1659					Sir William Wyndham
May 1659		John Palmer, MD		One seat vacant
March 1660		Thomas Gorges			Sir William Wyndham
1661		Sir William Portman
February 1679					John Trenchard	Whig
September 1679		Sir John Cutler Bt
1680		Edmund Prideaux
1685		Sir William Portman	Tory		John Sanford	Tory
March 1690					Edward Clarke	Whig
April 1690		John Speke	Whig
1698		Henry Seymour Portman	Tory
1701 by-election		Sir Francis Warre	Tory
1710					Henry Seymour Portman	Tory
1715 [5]		William Pynsent	Whig		James Smith	Whig
1722		John Trenchard	Whig
1724 by-election		Abraham Elton	Whig
1727		George Speke	Whig		Francis Fane	Whig
1734		Henry William Berkeley Portman	Tory
1741		Sir John Chapman	Whig		John Buck	Tory
1745					Percy Wyndham-O'Brien	Whig
1747		Sir Charles Wyndham [6]	Whig		Robert Webb	Whig
1750		Admiral William Rowley	Whig
1754		The Lord Carpenter [7]	Whig		John Halliday	Whig
1754 by-election					Robert Maxwell [8]	Whig
1762		Laurence Sulivan	Whig
1768		Alexander Popham			Nathaniel Webb
1774 [9]		Hon. Edward Stratford	Whig
1775		John Halliday			Alexander Popham
1780					Major-General John Roberts
1782 by-election					(Sir) Benjamin Hammet
1784		Alexander Popham
1796		William Morland
1800					John Hammet
1806		Alexander Baring
1812					Henry Powell Collins
1818					Sir William Burroughs, Bt
1819					Henry Powell Collins
1820					John Ashley Warre
1826		Henry Seymour			William Peachey
1830		Henry Labouchere	Whig		Edward Thomas Bainbridge	Whig
1842 by-election					Sir Thomas Colebrooke	Whig
1852					Arthur Mills [10]	Conservative
1853 by-election					Sir John Ramsden	Whig
1857					Arthur Mills	Conservative
1859			Liberal
1859 by-election		George Cavendish-Bentinck	Conservative
1865		Alexander Charles Barclay	Liberal		Lord William Hay	Liberal
1868					Edward William Cox [11]	Conservative
1869					(Sir) Henry James	Liberal
1873 by-election
1880		Sir William Palliser	Conservative
1882 by-election		Samuel Charles Allsopp	Conservative
1885	Representation reduced to one Member

MPs since 1885

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Samuel Charles Allsopp	Conservative
	1887 by-election	Alfred Percy Allsopp	Conservative
	1895	Alfred Cholmeley Earle Welby	Conservative
	1906	Sir Edward Boyle	Conservative
	1909 by-election	William Wellesley Peel	Conservative
	1912 by-election	Sir Gilbert Wills, Bt.	Conservative
	1918	Dennis Fortescue Boles	Coalition Conservative
	1921 by-election	Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen	Coalition Conservative
	1922	John Hope Simpson	Liberal
	1924	Andrew Hamilton Gault	Conservative
	1935	Lt Col Edward Wickham	Conservative
	1945	Victor Collins	Labour
	1950	Henry Hopkinson	Conservative
	1956 by-election	Sir Edward du Cann	Conservative
	1987	David Nicholson	Conservative
	1997	Jackie Ballard	Liberal Democrat
	2001	Adrian Flook	Conservative
	2005	Jeremy Browne	Liberal Democrat
	2010	Constituency abolished: see Taunton Deane

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Sir Chas. Jessel

General Election 1885: Taunton [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Charles Allsopp	1,361	58.2
	Liberal	Sir Charles James Jessel	978	41.8
Majority			383	16.4
Turnout				92.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1886: Taunton[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hon. Samuel Charles Allsopp	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Taunton by-election, 1887 [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hon. Alfred Percy Allsopp	1,426	61.6	n/a
	Liberal	James Harris Sanders	890	38.4	n/a
Majority			536	23.2	n/a
Turnout			2,321	89.4	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Taunton[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hon. Alfred Percy Allsopp	1,402	60.4
	Liberal	H H Bridgman	921	39.6
Majority			481	20.8
Turnout				82.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1895: Taunton [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alfred Cholmeley Earle Welby	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Taunton [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alfred Cholmeley Earle Welby	1,387	57.5	n/a
	Liberal	W King	1,024	42.5	n/a
Majority			363	15.0	n/a
Turnout				73.7	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1906: Taunton [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Sir Edward Gurney Boyle	1,842	55.1	-2.4
	Liberal	Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby	1,503	44.9	+2.4
Majority			339	10.2	-4.8
Turnout			3,345	93.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.4

Taunton by-election, 1909 [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel	1,976	64.6
	Labour	F S Smith	1,085	35.4	n/a
Majority			891	29.2
Turnout				80.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Taunton [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel	1,906	55.3
	Liberal	W A Addinsell	1,538	44.7	n/a
Majority			368	10.6
Turnout				90.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

General Election December 1910: Taunton [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel	1,806	53.4
	Liberal	John Edward Schunck	1,573	46.6
Majority				6.8
Turnout			3,379
	Conservative hold		Swing

Taunton by-election, 1912
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Gilbert Alan Hamilton Wills	1,882	54.1	+0.7
	Liberal	John Edward Schunk	1,597	45.9	-0.7
Majority				8.2	+1.4
Turnout			3,479
	Unionist hold		Swing	+0.7

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;

• Unionist: Sir Gilbert Alan Hamilton Wills
• Liberal: T. Bromley Eames

General Election 1918
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Dennis Fortescue Boles	12,619	72.4
	Labour	George Saville Woods	4,816	27.6
Majority			7,803	44.8
Turnout				60.4
	Unionist hold		Swing

• endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

Taunton by-election, 1921
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen	12,994	61.1
	Labour	James Lunnon	8,290	38.9
Majority			4,704	22.2
Turnout				73.5
	Unionist hold		Swing	-11.3

John Simpson

General Election 1922
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Hope Simpson	13,195	56.4	n/a
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen	10,182	43.6	-17.5
Majority			3,007	12.8
Turnout				79.1	+5.6
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	n/a

Andrew Gault

General Election 1923
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Hope Simpson	13,053	52.5	-3.9
	Unionist	Andrew Hamilton Gault	11,798	47.5	+3.9
Majority			1,255	5.0	-7.8
Turnout				82.6	+3.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	-3.9

General Election 1924
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Andrew Hamilton Gault	13,930	52.1	+4.6
	Liberal	John Hope Simpson	10,381	38.8	-13.7
	Labour	George Saville Woods	2,441	9.1	n/a
Majority			3,549	13.3	18.3
Turnout				85.6	+3.0
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+9.1

General Election 1929
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Andrew Hamilton Gault	15,083	45.9	-6.2
	Liberal	Walter Russell Rea	11,121	33.9	-4.9
	Labour	Joseph Alfred Sparks	6,615	20.2	+11.1
Majority			3,962	12.0	-1.3
Turnout				82.2	-3.4
	Unionist hold		Swing	-0.6

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Hamilton Gault	22,564	72.95
	Labour	Frank George Bushnell	8,367	27.05
Majority			14,197	45.90
Turnout				75.43
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Taunton[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Thomas Ruscombe Wickham	19,443	63.41
	Labour	James Lunnon	11,219	36.59
Majority			8,224	26.82
Turnout			30720	72.39
	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 and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Edward Thomas Ruscombe Wickham
• Labour: Charles W. Gott^[14]

General Election 1945: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Victor John Collins	19,976	52.80
	Conservative	Edward Thomas Ruscombe Wickham	17,858	47.20
Majority			2,118	5.60
Turnout				72.98
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Lennox D'Aubigne Hopkinson	20,724	46.43
	Labour	Victor John Collins	19,352	43.35
	Liberal	John Robert Phillipson	4,561	10.22
Majority			1,372	3.07
Turnout				88.81
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1951: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Lennox D'Aubigne Hopkinson	24,826	54.36
	Labour	Victor John Collins	20,845	45.64
Majority			3,981	8.72
Turnout				89.00
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Lennox D'Aubigne Hopkinson	22,962	52.11
	Labour	Reginald Alfred Pestell	17,420	39.53
	Liberal	Guy Barrington	3,684	8.36
Majority			5,542	12.58
Turnout				85.46
	Conservative hold		Swing

Taunton by-election, 1956
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Dillon Lott du Cann	19,820
	Labour	Reginald Alfred Pestell	19,163
Majority			657
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Dillon Lott du Cann	22,680	49.42
	Labour	Leonard V Pike	16,182	35.26
	Liberal	Charles Meddon Karslake Bruton	7,031	15.32
Majority			6,498	14.16
Turnout				87.12
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Edward Dillon Lott du Cann	21,367	46.52
	Labour	Leonard V Pike	16,619	36.18
	Liberal	Margaret Irene Gaenor Heathcoat Amory	7,944	17.30
Majority			4,748	10.34
Turnout				84.74
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Edward Dillon Lott du Cann	22,369	47.55
	Labour	Robin J Bradbury	19,216	40.85
	Liberal	Margaret Irene Gaenor Heathcoat Amory	5,460	11.61
Majority			3,153	6.70
Turnout				85.27
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Edward Dillon Lott du Cann	26,158	53.55
	Labour	Steven Mama	17,823	36.48
	Liberal	Gerald O'Donnell	4,871	9.97
Majority			8,335	17.06
Turnout				78.96
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Edward Dillon Lott du Cann	23,841	45.11
	Labour	D.W. Keene	15,401	29.14
	Liberal	M.E. Mann	13,607	25.75
Majority			8,440	15.97
Turnout				83.88
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Edward Dillon Lott du Cann	22,542	44.61
	Labour	Barry John Sheerman	15,721	31.11
	Liberal	M.E. Mann	11,984	23.72
	United Democratic Party	L.D. Bradford	283	0.56
Majority			6,821	13.50
Turnout				79.38
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Edward Dillon Lott du Cann	28,483	53.17
	Labour	S. Horne	15,759	29.42
	Liberal	M. Lee	7,928	14.80
	Ecology	G. Garbett	1,403	2.62
Majority			12,724	23.75
Turnout				80.74
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Edward Dillon Lott du Cann	28,112	52.89
	Social Democratic	Michael Alfred Kelynack Cocks	15,545	29.24
	Labour	J. Gray	9,498	17.87
Majority			12,567	23.64
Turnout				75.55
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David John Nicholson	30,248	51.38
	Social Democratic	Michael Alfred Kelynack Cocks	19,868	33.75
	Labour	Gary Reynolds	8,754	14.87
Majority			10,380	17.63
Turnout				79.40
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Taunton[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David John Nicholson	29,576	46.0	−5.3
	Liberal Democrat	Jacqueline Margaret Ballard	26,240	40.8	+7.1
	Labour	Mrs L. Jean Hole	8,151	12.7	−2.2
	Natural Law	Philip A. Leavey	279	0.4	+0.4
Majority			3,336	5.2	−12.4
Turnout			64,246	82.3	+3.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	−6.2

General Election 1997: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Jacqueline Margaret Ballard	26,064	42.7	+1.9
	Conservative	David John Nicholson	23,621	38.7	-7.3
	Labour	Elizabeth Lisgo	8,248	13.5	+0.8
	Referendum	Brian Ahern	2,760	4.5	N/A
	BNP	Leslie Andrews	318	0.5	N/A
Majority			2,443
Turnout				76.5	−5.8
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Adrian John Flook	23,033	41.7	+3.0
	Liberal Democrat	Jacqueline Margaret Ballard	22,798	41.3	−1.4
	Labour	Andrew Govier	8,254	14.9	+1.4
	UKIP	Michael Canton	1,140	2.1	N/A
Majority			235	0.4
Turnout			55,225	67.6	−8.8
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Jeremy Browne

General Election 2005: Taunton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Jeremy Richard Browne	25,764	43.3	+2.0
	Conservative	Adrian John Flook	25,191	42.3	+0.6
	Labour	Andrew Govier	7,132	12.0	−2.9
	UKIP	Helen Miles	1,441	2.4	+0.3
Majority			573	1.0	+0.6
Turnout			59,528	69.7	+2.1
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing	-0.7

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset

Notes and references

1. Blount died during the 1572 Parliament, and Hodges was elected in his place in 1575.
2. "Taunton". The History of Parliament. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
3. Cassidy, Irene. "Taunton 1660-1690". The History of Parliament. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
4. Cobbett records Admiral Robert Blake as being elected for Taunton and Palmer for Bridgwater; but Brunton & Pennington agree with the Dictionary of National Biography that Blake was MP for Bridgwater and Palmer for Taunton.
5. At the general election of 1715, Warre and Portman were initially declared re-elected, but on petition (in a dispute over the franchise) they were adjudged not to have been duly elected and their opponents, Pynsent and Smith, were seated in their place
6. Styled Lord Cockermouth from October 1749
7. Created Earl of Tyrconnell (in the Peerage of Ireland), May 1761
8. Succeeded as The Lord Farnham , August 1759; created Viscount Farnham, September 1760 and Earl of Farnham, May 1763 (all these titles being in the Peerage of Ireland).
9. On petition, Stratford and Webb were adjudged not to have been duly elected, and their opponents, Halliday and Popham, were seated in their place
10. On petition, Mills' election was declared void and a by-election was held
11. On petition, the election of Cox was declared void and after scrutiny of the votes his opponent, James, was declared to have been duly elected
12. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
13. "Election of Lieut-Colonel E. T. R. Wickham". Taunton Courier. 20 November 1935. Retrieved 14 January 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
14. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
15. "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.

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• The BBC/ITN Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies (Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services, 1983)
• Concise Dictionary of National Biography
• List of speakers: Parliaments of 1656 and 1658-9, Diary of Thomas Burton esq, volume 4: March - April 1659 (1828) at British History Online

External links

• UK Constituency Maps
• BBC Vote 2001
• BBC Election 2005