Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)
Appearance
Lonsdale | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Lancashire |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Lancaster and North Lonsdale |
Replaced by | Morecambe and Lonsdale, Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness |
Lonsdale was a county constituency in north Lancashire, England. It 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.
Members of Parliament
Year | Member | Whip | |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1918 | Claude Lowther | Unionist |
style="background-color: Template:Independent Unionist/meta/color" | | 1920 | Independent Parliamentary Group | |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1921 | Unionist | |
style="background-color: Template:Unionist Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1922 | Nigel Kennedy | Unionist |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1923 | Henry Maden | Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:Unionist Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1924 | Lord Balniel | Unionist |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1940 | Ian Fraser | Conservative |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Election in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Unionist | Claude William Henry Lowther | 9,662 | 52.5 | n/a |
Labour | David Hunter | 4,472 | 24.3 | n/a | |
Liberal | Joseph Bliss | 4,276 | 23.2 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,190 | 28.2 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 66.5 | n/a | |||
Unionist win | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Election in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Myles Storr Nigel Kennedy | 12,030 | 55.1 | +2.6 | |
Liberal | Henry Maden | 5,790 | 26.5 | +3.3 | |
Labour | Thomas Marshall Scott | 4,024 | 18.4 | −5.9 | |
Majority | 6,240 | 28.6 | +0.4 | ||
Turnout | 77.3 | +10.8 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -0.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Henry Maden | 11,186 | 52.4 | +25.9 | |
Unionist | Myles Storr Nigel Kennedy | 10,176 | 47.6 | −7.5 | |
Majority | 1,010 | 4.8 | 33.4 | ||
Turnout | 75.4 | −1.9 | |||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +16.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | David Alexander Robert Lindsay | 13,460 | 57.4 | +9.8 | |
Liberal | Henry Maden | 10,002 | 42.6 | −−9.8 | |
Majority | 3,458 | 14.8 | 19.6 | ||
Turnout | 83.3 | +7.9 | |||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +9.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | David Alexander Robert Lindsay | 13,612 | 47.4 | −10.0 | |
Liberal | Henry Maden | 7,805 | 27.2 | −15.4 | |
Labour | Joseph Henderson | 7,303 | 25.4 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,087 | 20.2 | +5.4 | ||
Turnout | 82.7 | −0.6 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | +2.7 |
Election in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Alexander Robert Lindsay | 17,423 | 59.6 | +12.2 | |
Liberal | Henry Maden | 11,821 | 40.4 | +13.2 | |
Majority | 5,602 | 19.2 | −1.0 | ||
Turnout | 29,244 | 83.0 | +0.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Alexander Robert Lindsay | 16,338 | 57.0 | −2.6 | |
Labour | R S Armstrong | 6,946 | 24.2 | n/a | |
Liberal | Henry Maden | 5,391 | 18.8 | −21.6 | |
Majority | 9,392 | 32.8 | +13.6 | ||
Turnout | 28,675 | 79.3 | −3.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
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;
- Conservative: David Alexander Robert Lindsay
- Labour:
- Liberal:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Jocelyn Ian Fraser | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Jocelyn Ian Fraser | 18,571 | 58.0 | n/a | |
Labour | Sidney Wright Grundy | 13,436 | 42.0 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,135 | 16.0 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 77.2 | n/a | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |