Swansea District (UK Parliament constituency)
Swansea District | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1832–1918 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Swansea |
Replaced by | Aberavon and Neath |
Swansea District or Swansea District of Boroughs was a borough constituency. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Overview
The constituency was created for the 1832–33 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election. Swansea District was a strongly Liberal constituency, dominated by the tinplate and steel industries, together with coal.
Boundaries
Upon its creation in 1832 the constituency comprised five separate boroughs, Swansea, Neath, Aberavon, Kenfig and Loughor. There were some minor boundary changes in 1868 but the composition of the constituency in terms of boroughs remained the same until 1885.
In 1885, the constituency was split into two, with the central part of Swansea borough forming the Swansea Town constituency, and the northern part of Swansea borough centred on Morriston, together with the four smaller boroughs, forming a constituency which retained Swansea District as its name.
The first member after 1885 was Henry Vivian, who had previously represented Glamorgan county since 1857.
Members of Parliament
- Constituency created (1832)
Year | Member | Whip | |
---|---|---|---|
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | 1832 | John Henry Vivian | Whig[1][2][3][4] |
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | 1855 | Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn | Whig[5][6][7] |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1859 | Liberal | |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1885 | Sir Henry Vivian | Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" | | 1886 | Liberal Unionist | |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1887 | Liberal | |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1893 | William Williams | Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1895 | Sir David Brynmor Jones | Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1915 | Thomas Jeremiah Williams | Liberal |
1918 | constituency abolished |
Electoral history
Elections in the 1850s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | John Henry Vivian | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 1,694 | ||||
Whig hold |
Vivian's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn | Unopposed | |||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 1,901 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 1,921 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Elections in the 1860s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 1,967 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,543 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Elections in the 1870s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn | 5,215 | 65.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Charles Bath[9] | 2,708 | 34.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,507 | 31.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,923 | 63.5 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 12,476 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 13,631 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Henry Vivian | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
In 1886, Vivian briefly joined the Liberal Unionists but was nevertheless returned unopposed and returned to the Gladstonian fold soon after the election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | Henry Vivian | Unopposed | |||
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Henry Vivian | 5,959 | 86.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Herbert Monger[12] | 933 | 13.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,026 | 73.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 6,892 | 68.6 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 10,047 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
In 1893, when he was elevated to the peerage becoming Lord Swansea, he was succeeded by the Morriston tinplate owner, William Williams.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Williams | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Williams served for only two years before being replaced in 1895 by Brynmor Jones. Jones had strong nonconformist connections but his political career was undistinguished and he concentrated on his legal career.[13]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Brynmor Jones | 3,850 | 49.9 | −36.6 | |
Independent Liberal-Labour | Ernest Hall Hedley | 2,018 | 26.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | John Wright | 1,851 | 24.0 | +10.5 | |
Majority | 1,832 | 23.8 | −49.2 | ||
Turnout | 7,719 | 75.4 | +6.8 | ||
Registered electors | 10,237 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −23.6 |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Brynmor Jones | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Brynmor Jones | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Brynmor Jones | 8,488 | 77.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Robert Campbell | 2,415 | 22.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,073 | 55.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 10,903 | 84.0 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 12,983 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Brynmor Jones | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Brynmor Jones | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Brynmor Jones | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Thomas Williams | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
References
- ^ Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. p. 65. Retrieved 22 August 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ Dod, Charles Roger; Dod, Robert Phipps (1847). Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Volume 15. Dod's Parliamentary Companion. p. 250. Retrieved 22 August 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ Churton, Edward (1836). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1836. p. 229. Retrieved 22 August 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ "SWANSEA". Drogheda Conservative Journal. 10 July 1841. p. 1. Retrieved 22 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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- ^ a b The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ^ Griffiths Family Group Sheets http://griffiths123.com/b30.htm. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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Further reading
- Thomas, Daniel Lleufer (1911). Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 181. . In
- Morgan, Kenneth O (1991). Wales in British Politics 1868–1922 (3rd ed.). Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0708311245.
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(help) - Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)