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Tiverton
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
CountyDevon
1885–1997
SeatsOne
Replaced byTiverton & Honiton
1621–1885
SeatsTwo
Type of constituencyBorough 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.

History

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Tiverton, and the Sessional Divisions of Collompton and Wonford.

1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Tiverton, the Urban Districts of Bampton and Dawlish, the Rural Districts of Oulmstock and Tiverton, and parts of the Rural Districts of Newton Abbot and St Thomas.

1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Tiverton, the Urban Districts of Dawlish and Teignmouth, the Rural District of Tiverton, and part of the Rural District of St Thomas.

1974-1983: The Municipal Borough of Tiverton, the Urban Districts of Crediton, Dawlish, and Teignmouth, the Rural Districts of Crediton and Tiverton, and part of the Rural District of St Thomas.

1983-1997: The District of Mid Devon wards of Boniface, Bradninch, Cadbury, Canal, Canonsleigh, Castle, Clare, Cullompton Outer, Cullompton Town, Culm, East Creedy, Halberton, Lawrence, Lowman, Newbrooke, Paullet, Sandford, Shuttern, Silverton, Upper Culm, Upper Yeo, Westexe North, Westexe South, Willand, and Yeo, and the District of East Devon wards of Broadclyst, Clystbeare, Clyst Valley, Exe Valley, Ottery St Mary Rural, Ottery St Mary Town, and Tale Vale.

Members of Parliament

Tiverton borough, 1621–1885

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

County constituency, 1885–1997

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

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Tiverton [6][7][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Hood Walrond 4,563 56.9 n/a
Liberal Sydney James Stern 3,460 43.1 n/a
Majority 1,103 13.8 n/a
Turnout 85.8 n/a
Conservative win (new seat)
General Election 1886: Tiverton [6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Hood Walrond unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Tiverton [6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir William Hood Walrond 4,433 58.8 n/a
Liberal Sir John Budd Phear 3,101 41.2 n/a
Majority 1,332 17.6 n/a
Turnout 84.0 n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a
General Election 1895: Tiverton [6][7][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir William Hood Walrond unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Tiverton [6][7][10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Rt Hon. Sir William Hood Walrond unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a
Reed
General Election 1906: Tiverton [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Lionel Charles Walrond 4,455 n/a
Liberal William Henry Reed 3,970 n/a
Majority 485 n/a
Turnout n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Tiverton [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Lionel Charles Walrond 4,945
Liberal Ian Murray Heathcoat Heathcoat-Amory 4,153
Majority
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing
General Election December 1910: Tiverton [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Lionel Charles Walrond 5,033
Liberal Alfred Ernest Yates Trestrail 3,455
Majority
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

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 and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Tiverton by-election, 1915 [6][13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Charles Robert Sydenham Carew unopposed n/a n/a
Unionist hold Swing n/a
General Election 1918: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist 9,598 57.2
Liberal Sir Edward Penton 4,827 28.7
Labour Donald B Fraser 2,377 14.1
Majority 4,771 28.5
Turnout 64.8
Unionist hold Swing
  • endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

Francis Acland
General Election 1922: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Herbert Weston Sheppard Sparkes 10,304 46.9 −10.3
Liberal Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland 10,230 46.5
Labour Frederick Brown 1,457 6.6
Majority 74 0.4
Turnout 80.1 +5.3
Unionist hold Swing
Tiverton by-election, 1923
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland 12,041 49.8 +3.4
Unionist Gilbert John Acland Troyte 11,639 48.1 +1.2
Independent Labour Frederick Brown 495 2.1 −4.6
Majority 403 2.0 2.4
Turnout 24,174 88.1
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +1.2
General Election 6 December 1923: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland 12,303 50.0 +0.2
Unionist Gilbert John Acland Troyte 12,300 50.0 +1.9
Majority 3 0.0 −1.8
Turnout 87.4 −0.7
Liberal hold Swing -0.8
General Election 1924: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Gilbert John Acland Troyte 13,601 53.2 +3.2
Liberal Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland 11,942 46.8 −3.2
Majority 1,659 6.4 6.4
Turnout 90.2
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +3.2
General Election 1929: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Gilbert John Acland Troyte 15,423 50.5 −2.7
Liberal Dingle Mackintosh Foot 12,908 42.3 −4.5
Labour Heyman Wreford Wreford-Glanville 2,199 7.2 n/a
Majority 2,515 8.2 +1.8
Turnout 86.2 −4.0
Unionist hold Swing +0.9

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gilbert John Acland Troyte unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a
General Election 1935: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gilbert John Acland Troyte unopposed n/a n/a
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;

General Election 1945: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Derick Heathcoat-Amory 16,919 51.3 n/a
Labour GC Tompson 8,634 26.2 n/a
Liberal Cyril Harry Blackburn 7,418 22.5 n/a
Majority 8,285 25.1 n/a
Turnout 74.0 n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Rt Hon. Derick Heathcoat-Amory 20,606 52.11
Labour Albert Edward Patrick Duffy 12,055 30.48
Liberal Cyril Harry Blackburn 6,885 17.41
Majority 8,551 21.62
Turnout 46,536 84.98
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1951: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Rt Hon. Derick Heathcoat-Amory 24,532 63.53
Labour Albert Edward Patrick Duffy 14,084 36.47
Majority 10,448 27.06
Turnout 81.26
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1955: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Rt Hon. Derick Heathcoat-Amory 23,475 64.27
Labour Albert Edward Patrick Duffy 13,051 35.73
Majority 10,424 28.54
Turnout 76.32
Conservative hold Swing
1959 General Election: Tiverton[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Rt Hon. Derick Heathcoat-Amory 21,714 55.6
Labour John Elliot Orr Dunwoody 9,836 25.2
Liberal James J Collier 7,504 19.2
Majority 11,878 30.4
Turnout 39,054 80.7
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

Tiverton by-election, 1960[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robin John Maxwell-Hyslop 15,308 45.7 −9.9
Liberal James J Collier 12,268 36.7 +17.5
Labour Raymond F H Dobson 5,895 17.6 −7.6
Majority 3,040 9.0 −21.4
Turnout 33,471 68.4 −12.3
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1964: Tiverton[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robin John Maxwell-Hyslop 19,280 47.3 −8.3
Liberal James J Collier 14,053 34.5 +15.3
Labour John T Mitchard 7,393 18.2 −7.6
Majority 5,227 12.8 −17.6
Turnout 40,726 80.1 −0.6
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1966: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robin John Maxwell-Hyslop 20,351 48.57
Labour F Keith Taylor 11,325 27.03
Liberal Frank J Suter 10,225 24.40
Majority 9,026 21.54
Turnout 80.72
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robin John Maxwell-Hyslop 24,689 55.18
Labour Roy Hewetson 10,823 24.19
Liberal Frank J Suter 9,229 20.63
Majority 13,866 30.99
Turnout 77.01
Conservative hold Swing
General Election February 1974: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robin John Maxwell-Hyslop 27,164 47.58
Liberal Frank J Suter 21,623 37.87
Labour Roy Hewetson 8,308 14.55
Majority 5,541 9.70
Turnout 82.36
Conservative hold Swing
General Election October 1974: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robin John Maxwell-Hyslop 25,265 46.68
Liberal Frank J Suter 19,911 36.79
Labour M Phillips 8,946 16.53
Majority 5,354 9.89
Turnout 77.45
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1979: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robin John Maxwell-Hyslop 33,444 56.74
Liberal David J Morrish 17,215 29.21
Labour AWF Cook 8,281 14.05
Majority 16,229 27.53
Turnout 79.25
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robin John Maxwell-Hyslop 27,101 54.78
Liberal David J Morrish 19,215 38.84
Labour DA Gorbutt 3,154 6.38
Majority 7,886 15.94
Turnout 77.51
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1987: Tiverton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robin John Maxwell-Hyslop 29,875 54.95
Liberal David J Morrish 20,663 38.00
Labour JA Northam 3,400 6.25
Independent WJ Jones 434 0.80
Majority 9,212 16.94
Turnout 79.71
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Tiverton[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Angela Browning 30,376 51.5 −3.4
Liberal Democrats DN Cox 19,287 32.7 −5.3
Labour Ms. SC Gibb 5,950 10.1 +3.8
Liberal David J 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

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
  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. ^ a b c d e f British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
  7. ^ a b c d e f The Liberal Year Book, 1907
  8. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
  9. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  10. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  11. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
  12. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
  13. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
  14. ^ a b c British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; F W S Craig, Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
  15. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

Sources

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