North Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)

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North Cumberland
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Number of members one
Replaced by Penrith and The Border
Created from Eskdale and Penrith

North Cumberland (also "Cumberland Northern"[1][2] was a parliamentary constituency in Cumberland which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

In the 1920s, the North Cumberland boundaries incorporated Brampton, Longtown, Carlisle's rural district, and Wigton.[3]

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Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1918 Christopher Lowther Coalition Conservative†
1922 Donald Howard Conservative
1926 by-election Sir Fergus Graham Conservative
1935 Wilfrid Roberts Liberal
1950 Constituency abolished

† In January 1921 Lowther defected to the Independent Parliamentary Group led by Horatio Bottomley.[4]

Election results

Election in the 1910s

General Election 14 December 1918:[5] Electorate 21,796
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Maj. Hon. Christopher William Lowther unopposed n/a n/a
Unionist win

Election in the 1920s

General Election 6 December 1923: Cumberland North [7]

General Election 15 November 1922: Cumberland North [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard 8,815 50.8 n/a
Liberal Hon. Geoffrey William Algernon Howard 8,544 49.2 n/a
Majority 271 1.6 n/a
Turnout 79.9 n/a
Unionist hold Swing n/a
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard 9,288 50.6 -0.2
Liberal Richard Durning Holt 9,070 49.4 +0.2
Majority 218 1.2 -0.4
Turnout 83.2 +3.3
Unionist hold Swing -0.2
General Election 29 October 1924: Cumberland North [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard 10,586 54.2 +3.6
Liberal Richard Durning Holt 6,821 34.9
Labour B. Brooke 2,125 10.9 n/a
Majority 3,765 19.3
Turnout 86.0 +2.8
Unionist hold Swing
North Cumberland by-election, 1926 [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Frederick Fergus Graham 8,867 47.8 -6.4
Liberal Richard Durning Holt 6,871 37.1 +2.2
Labour H. W. McIntyre 2,793 15.1 +4.2
Majority 10.7
Turnout 82.0
Unionist hold Swing
General Election 30 May 1929: Cumberland North [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Frederick Fergus Graham 10,392 44.9
Liberal Richard Durning Holt 9,661 41.7
Labour C. A. O'Donnell 3,092 13.4
Majority 731 3.2 -7.5
Turnout 83.7
Unionist hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 27 October 1931: [11] Electorate 28,085
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Frederick Fergus Graham 12,504 52.7
Liberal Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts 11,277 47.3
Majority 1,277 5.4
Turnout 84.6
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 14 November 1935: [12] Electorate 28,769
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts 12,521 51.9
Conservative Sir Frederick Fergus Graham 11,627
Majority
Turnout 83.9 -0.7
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing

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;

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945: [13] Electorate 31,588
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts 12,053 50.4
Conservative RN Carr 11,855 49.6
Majority 198 0.83
Turnout 75.7
Liberal hold Swing

References

  1. ↑ Cumberland Northern PDivCon Vision of Britain
  2. ↑ MPs for Cumberland Northern Hansard Millbank
  3. ↑ Cumberland Map 1922 Vision of Britain
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
  6. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
  7. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
  8. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
  9. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
  10. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
  11. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
  12. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
  13. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
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