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Yorkshire, East Riding, Buckrose Division
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
CountyEast Riding of Yorkshire
1885–1950
Created fromEast Riding of Yorkshire
Replaced byBridlington and Beverley

Buckrose was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a county constituency comprising the northern part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, represented by one Member of Parliament, and was created for the 1885 general election.

Buckrose was abolished for the 1950 general election, when boundary changes reduced the East Riding's number of county constituencies from three to two, the eastern part of the constituency and most of the voters being included in the new Bridlington constituency and the remainder in the Beverley constituency.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Sessional Divisions of Bainton Beacon, Buckrose, and Dickering.

1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Bridlington, the Urban Districts of Filey, Great Driffield, and Norton, the Rural Districts of Bridlington, Driffield, Norton, and Sherburn.

The constituency consisted of the northern third of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The largest town in the seat was Bridlington, but it also included Filey, Driffield, and Norton, as well as numerous villages, and the rural element was predominant. At the time of the 1921 census, almost two-fifths (38%) of the occupied male population were engaged in agriculture.

Name

Buckrose took its name from the wapentake of Buckrose, one of the medieval sub-divisions of the East Riding which, however, had long ceased to have much administrative significance by 1885, and had covered only part of the area of the constituency and a minority of its population. (The constituency also included the whole of the former wapentake of Dickering, which included Bridlington and Filey, and part of the wapentake of Harthill which included Driffield.) The name seems to have been chosen primarily to avoid offending any local sensibilities, and with little regard for comprehensibility (a criticism also levelled at many of the other new constituency names created under the 1885 Reform Act).

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1885 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Christopher Sykes Conservative
1886 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Alexander McArthur[1] Liberal
1886 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Christopher Sykes Conservative
1892 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Angus Holden Liberal
1900 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Luke White Liberal
1918 style="background-color: Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" | Algernon Henry Moreing Coalition Liberal
1922 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt [2] Conservative
1926 by-election style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Albert Braithwaite Conservative
1945 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | George Wadsworth Liberal
1950 constituency abolished: see Bridlington and Beverley

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Buckrose[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher Sykes n/a
Liberal n/a
Majority 296 3.8 n/a
Turnout n/a
Conservative win (new seat)
William McArthur
General Election 1886: Buckrose[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative 3,735 50.1
Liberal William Alexander McArthur 3,724 49.9
Majority 11 0.2
Turnout 81.9
Conservative hold Swing
  • At the General Election of 1886, McArthur was declared the victor over Sykes by a single vote, 3,742 to 3,741, and took his seat, but "on scrutiny" the seat was eventually awarded to his opponent, Sykes, by a majority of 11 votes.

Elections in the 1890s

Frederick Fison
General Election 1892: Buckrose[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Angus Holden 4,294 54.1 +4.2
Conservative Frederick William Fison 3,642 45.9 −4.2
Majority 652 8.2 +8.2
Turnout 87.8
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +4.2
Angus Holden
General Election 1895: Buckrose[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Angus Holden 4,076 50.6 −3.5
Conservative Thomas Clarence Edward Goff 3,986 49.4 +3.5
Majority 90 1.2 −7.0
Turnout 86.8
Liberal hold Swing -3.5

Elections in the 1900s

Luke White
General Election 1900: Buckrose[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Luke White 4,083 50.6 +0.0
Liberal Unionist Ernest Claude Meysey-Thompson 3,992 49.4 −0.0
Majority 91 1.2 +0.0
Turnout 83.7 −3.1
Liberal hold Swing +0.0
General Election 1906: Buckrose[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Luke White 5,236 59.0 +8.4
Conservative Reginald Bethune, Viscount Garnock 3,634 41.0 −8.4
Majority 1,602 18.0 +16.8
Turnout 87.4
Liberal hold Swing +8.4

Elections in the 1910s

Mark Sykes
General Election January 1910: Buckrose[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sir Luke White 4,957 51.1
Conservative Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes 4,739 48.9
Majority 218 2.2
Turnout 91.0 +3.6
Liberal hold Swing
General Election December 1910: Buckrose[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sir Luke White 4,867 51.2 +0.1
Conservative Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes 4,635 48.8 −0.1
Majority 232 2.4 +0.2
Turnout 89.2
Liberal hold Swing +0.1

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 from 1914 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

General Election 1918: Buckrose[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal 9,310 60.9
Labour George Henry Dawson 3,176 20.8
Liberal Austin Taylor 2,792 18.3
Majority 6,134 40.1
Turnout
National Liberal gain from Liberal Swing
  • denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s

Thomas Fenby
General Election 1922: Buckrose [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Sir Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt 12,012 51.3 n/a
Liberal Thomas Davis Fenby 11,411 48.7 +30.4
Majority 601 2.6
Turnout 82.5 +26.5
Unionist gain from National Liberal Swing n/a
General Election 1923: Buckrose [13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Sir Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt 12,336 50.4 −0.9
Liberal Thomas Davis Fenby 12,122 49.6 +0.9
Majority 214 0.8 −1.8
Turnout 84.1 +1.6
Unionist hold Swing -0.9
General Election 1924: Buckrose[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Sir Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt 13,966 56.0 +5.6
Liberal Harry Anson Briggs 10,962 44.0 −5.6
Majority 3,004 12.0 +11.2
Turnout 82.9 −1.2
Unionist hold Swing +5.6
Buckrose by-election, 1926[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Albert Newby Braithwaite 12,098 48.7 −7.3
Liberal Sir Harry Calvert Williams Verney 10,537 42.5 −1.5
Labour Herbert Cecil Laycock 2,191 8.8 n/a
Majority 1,552 6.2 −5.8
Turnout 81.7 −1.2
Unionist hold Swing -2.9
General Election 1929: Buckrose[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Albert Newby Braithwaite 15,625 50.0 +1.3
Liberal Sidney Streatfield Leigh Lamert 13,825 44.4 +1.9
Labour Harold H Vickers 1,766 5.6 −3.2
Majority 1,800 5.6 −0.6
Turnout 80.4 −1.3
Unionist hold Swing -0.3

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Buckrose
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Albert Newby Braithwaite unopposed
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1935: Buckrose
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Albert Newby Braithwaite 18,090 55.1
Liberal Thomas Macleod 14,763 44.9
Majority 3,327 10.2
Turnout 32,853 78.4
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 from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

General Election 1945: Buckrose
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal George Wadsworth 15,934 51.5
Conservative Sir Albert Newby Braithwaite 14,985 48.5
Majority 949 3.1
Turnout 71.9
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing

Notes

  1. ^ At the General Election of 1886, McArthur was declared the victor over Sykes by a single vote, 3,742 to 3,741, and took his seat, but "on scrutiny" the seat was eventually awarded to his opponent, Sykes, by a majority of 11 votes
  2. ^ Resigned his seat
  3. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  4. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  5. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  6. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  7. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  8. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  9. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  10. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  11. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, F W S Craig
  12. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, F W S Craig
  13. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, F W S Craig
  14. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, F W S Craig
  15. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, F W S Craig
  16. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, FWS Craig

References

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