Tiverton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Tiverton
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County Devon
1885 (1885)–1997 (1997)
Number of members One
Replaced by Tiverton & Honiton
1621 (1621)–1885 (1885)
Number of members Two
Type of constituency Borough constituency

Tiverton was a constituency located in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Enfranchised as a parliamentary borough in 1615 and first represented in 1621, it elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the first past the post system of election until 1885. The name was then transferred to a county constituency electing one MP. (Between 1885 and 1918, the constituency was alternatively called Devon, North East.)

In 1997, it was merged with the neighbouring constituency of Honiton to form the Tiverton and Honiton constituency.

Prime Minister Lord Palmerston was a former MP for the seat.

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History [edit]

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Boundaries [edit]

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Members of Parliament [edit]

Tiverton borough, 1621–1885 [edit]

Year First member[1] First party Second member[1] Second party
1621–1622 John Bampfield John Davie
1624-March 1625 Sir George Chudleigh Humphrey Weare
April–August 1625 Rowland St John John Francis
December 1625 – 1626 John Drake Peter Ball
1628–1629 John Bluett
No Parliament summoned 1629-40
April 1640 Peter Sainthill Royalist Peter Ball
November 1640 George Hartnall Royalist
January 1644 Sainthill and Hartnall disabled from sitting - both seats vacant
1646 Robert Shapcote John Elford
December 1648 Shapcote excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant Elford not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653 Tiverton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Robert Shapcote Tiverton had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656
January 1659 Francis Warner Sir Coplestone Bampfylde
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 Robert Shapcote Thomas Bampfylde
July 1660 Roger Colman
November 1660 Henry Newte
1661 Sir Thomas Carew, Bt Sir Thomas Stucley
1664 Sir Henry Ford
1673 Samuel Foote
1685 Sir Hugh Acland William Colman
1689 Samuel Foote
1690 Thomas Bere
1691 Sir Anthony Keck[disambiguation needed]
1695 Lord Spencer Whig
1702 Robert Burridge
1708 Richard Mervin
1710 [2] Sir Edward Northey John Worth
1715 Thomas Bere
1722 Arthur Arscott
1726 George Deane
1727 Sir William Yonge, Bt [3] Whig
1728 by-election James Nelthorpe
1734 (Sir) Dudley Ryder
July 1747 Sir William Yonge, Bt [3] Whig
December 1747 by-election Henry Conyngham [4]
1754 Sir William Yonge, Bt Whig Henry Pelham
1755 by-election Thomas Ryder
1756 by-election Nathaniel Ryder
1758 by-election Sir Edward Hussey-Montagu
1762 by-election Charles Gore
1768 Sir John Duntze, Bt
1776 by-election John Eardley Wilmot
1784 Hon. Dudley Ryder Tory
1795 by-election Hon. Richard Ryder Tory
1803 by-election William Fitzhugh Tory
1819 by-election Viscount Sandon Tory
1830 Hon. Granville Ryder Tory
1831 Spencer Perceval Tory
1832 John Heathcoat Whig James Kennedy[5] Radical
1835 by-election The Viscount Palmerston Whig
1859 Hon. George Denman Liberal Liberal
1865 John Walrond, of Bradfield, Uffculme Conservative
1866 by-election Hon. George Denman Liberal
1868 John Heathcoat-Amory Liberal
1872 by-election William Nathaniel Massey Liberal
1881 by-election Viscount Ebrington Liberal
1885 Reduced to one member

County constituency, 1885–1997 [edit]

Election Member[1] Party
1885 Sir William Walrond Conservative
1906 Hon. William Walrond Conservative
1915 by-election Charles Carew Conservative
1922 Herbert Sparkes Conservative
1923 by-election Sir Francis Dyke Acland, Bt Liberal
1924 Gilbert Acland-Troyte Conservative
1945 Derick Heathcoat-Amory Conservative
1960 by-election Robin Maxwell-Hyslop Conservative
1992 Angela Browning Conservative
1997 constituency abolished: see Tiverton & Honiton

Elections [edit]

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Elections in the 1910s [edit]

General Election 1918

Electorate 25,925
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Charles Robert Sydenham Carew 9,598
Liberal Sir Edward Penton 4,827
Labour Rev. Donald B Fraser 2,377
Majority
Turnout
Unionist hold Swing

A # denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s [edit]

General Election 1922

Electorate 27,452
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Herbert Weston Sheppard Sparkes 10,304
Liberal Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland 10,230
Labour Frederick Brown 1,457
Majority
Turnout
Unionist hold Swing
Tiverton by-election, 1923
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland 12,041 49.8 '
Conservative Gilbert John Acland Troyte 11,639 48.1
Independent Labour Frederick Brown 495 2.1 -
Majority 403 '
Turnout 24,174 88.1
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
General Election 6 December 1923:

Electorate 28,151
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland 12,303
Conservative Gilbert John Acland Troyte 12,300
Majority
Turnout
Liberal hold Swing
General Election 1924

Electorate 28,331
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Gilbert John Acland Troyte 13,601
Liberal Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland 11,942
Majority
Turnout
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing
General Election 1929

Electorate 35,436
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Gilbert John Acland Troyte 15,423
Liberal Dingle Mackintosh Foot 12,908
Labour Heyman W Wreford-Glanville 2,199
Majority
Turnout
Unionist hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s [edit]

General Election 1931

Electorate
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gilbert John Acland Troyte unopposed
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1935

Electorate 38,179
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gilbert John Acland Troyte unopposed
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s [edit]

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: Gilbert Acland-Troyte, Liberal: A J Manaton.

General Election 1945

Electorate 44,623
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Lt-Col. Derick Heathcoat-Amory 16,919
Labour GC Tompson 8,634
Liberal Lt-Col. Cyril Harry Blackburn 7,418
Majority
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s [edit]

General Election 1992: Tiverton[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Angela Browning 30,376 51.5 -3.4
Liberal Democrat DN Cox 19,287 32.7 -5.3
Labour Ms. SC Gibb 5,950 10.1 +3.8
Liberal DJ Morrish 2,225 3.8 -34.2
Green PJ Foggitt 1,007 1.7 +1.7
Natural Law BC Rhodes 96 0.2 +0.2
Majority 11,089 18.8 +1.9
Turnout 58,941 83.3 +3.6
Conservative hold Swing +0.9

See also [edit]

Notes and references [edit]

  1. ^ a b c Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
  2. ^ At the general election of 1710, three candidates - Thomas Bere, Richard Mervin and John Worth - all received an equal number of votes and the returning officer made a double return. The House of Commons resolved on 1 December 1710 that the election was void, and a new poll was held at which Worth and Sir Edward Northey were elected (Bere having in the interim been appointed a Commissioner of the Victualling Office).
  3. ^ a b Yonge was also elected for Honiton, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Tiverton in this Parliament
  4. ^ Created The Lord Mountcharles (in the peerage of Ireland), September 1753
  5. ^ Kennedy's election in 1832 was declared void "due to lack of qualification". A by-election was held on 4 May 1833, when he was re-elected
  6. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010. 

Sources [edit]

  • Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
  • D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
  • Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847, Volume 1 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1844) [3]
  • Browne Willis, Notitia Parliamentaria (London, 1750) [4]
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