Whitehaven (UK Parliament constituency)

Whitehaven
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County	1832–1974: Cumberland 1974–1983: Cumbria
Major settlements	Whitehaven
1832 (1832)–1983 (1983)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Copeland
Created from	Cumberland

Whitehaven was a constituency centred on the town of Whitehaven in Cumberland , which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was created in 1832 and renamed Copeland at the 1983 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1832	Matthias Attwood	Conservative
	1847	Robert Charles Hildyard	Conservative
	1857 by-election	George Lyall	Conservative
	1865	George Cavendish-Bentinck	Conservative
	1891 by-election	Sir James Bain	Conservative
	1892	Thomas Shepherd Little	Liberal
	1895	Augustus Helder	Conservative
	1906	William John Dalzell Burnyeat	Liberal
	Jan. 1910	John Arthur Jackson	Conservative
	Dec. 1910	Thomas Richardson	Labour
	1918	James Augustus Grant	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Thomas Gavan Duffy	Labour
	1924	Robert Hudson	Conservative
	1929	Morgan Philips Price	Labour
	1931	William Nunn	Conservative
	1935	Frank Anderson	Labour
	1959	Joseph Bede Symonds	Labour
	1970	Jack Cunningham	Labour
	1983	constituency renamed (with unchanged boundaries), see Copeland

Sources

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 330. ISBN 0-900178-26-4. 
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 208. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. 
• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 317. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.