Holderness (UK Parliament constituency)
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | East Riding of Yorkshire |
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1885–1950 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Beverley |
Created from | East Riding of Yorkshire |
Holderness was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holderness area of the East Riding of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | George Richard Bethell | Conservative | |
1900 | Arthur Stanley Wilson | Conservative | |
1922 | William Audley Bowdler | Liberal | |
1923 | Sir Samuel Servington Savery | Conservative | |
1939 by-election | Joseph Gurney Braithwaite | Conservative | |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Joseph Gurney Braithwaite | 25,181 | |||
Labour | F Lawson | 23,036 | |||
Liberal | Roger Thomas Baldwin Fulford | 10,165 | |||
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Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Election in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Joseph Gurney Braithwaite | 17,742 | 39.4 | -14.2 | |
Liberal | Aline Mackinnon | 11,590 | 25.7 | +0.8 | |
Labour | J. L. Schultz | 9,629 | 21.3 | -0.2 | |
Independent | Raleigh Chichester-Constable | 6,103 | 13.5 | n/a | |
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Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Samuel Servington Savery | 22,229 | 53.6 | -8.1 | |
Liberal | Aline Mackinnon | 10,348 | 24.9 | -5.1 | |
Labour | J. L. Schulz | 8,906 | 21.5 | +13.1 | |
Majority | 11,901 | 28.7 | -3.0 | ||
Turnout | 41,503 | 72.2 | -9.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -1.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Samuel Servington Savery | 21,560 | 61.7 | ||
Liberal | Aline Mackinnon | 10,471 | 30.0 | ||
Labour | J. L. Schulz | 2,927 | 8.4 | ||
Majority | 11,089 | 31.7 | |||
Turnout | 34,958 | 81.8 |
Election in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Samuel Servington Savery | 14,544 | 47.6 | -8.4 | |
Liberal | Charles Neville Douglas Dixey | 13,525 | 44.3 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Joseph William Hewitt | 2,481 | 8.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,019 | 3.3 | -8.7 | ||
Turnout | 80.1 | -1.0 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -4.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Samuel Servington Savery | 12,911 | 56.0 | ||
Liberal | Charles Neville Douglas Dixey | 10,162 | 44.0 | ||
Majority | 2,749 | 12.0 | |||
Turnout | 23,073 | 81.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Samuel Servington Savery | 11,099 | 50.6 | +3.5 | |
Liberal | William Audley Bowdler | 10,846 | 49.4 | -3.5 | |
Majority | 253 | 1.2 | 7.0 | ||
Turnout | 78.1 | -1.0 | |||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Audley Bowdler | 11,479 | |||
Conservative | Arthur Stanley Wilson | 10,200 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Election in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Capt. Arthur Stanley Wilson | 9,387 | |||
Liberal | Frederick Maddison | 5,521 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
References
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)[self-published source][better source needed]
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Categories:
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1885
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1950
- Beverley