Whitehaven (UK Parliament constituency)

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Whitehaven
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County1832–1974: Cumberland
1974–1983: Cumbria
Major settlementsWhitehaven
1832–1983
SeatsOne
Created fromCumberland
Replaced byCopeland

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.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

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

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jack Cunningham 22,626 52.44
Conservative J. Somers 17,171 39.80
Liberal E. Akister 2,559 5.93
Independent W. Dixon 790 1.83
Majority 5,455 12.64
Turnout 81.74
Labour hold Swing
General Election October 1974: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jack Cunningham 21,832 55.56
Conservative P.B. Vose 11,899 30.28
Liberal M. Gilbert 5,563 14.16
Majority 9,933 25.28
Turnout 77.10
Labour hold Swing
General Election February 1974: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jack Cunningham 23,229 59.42
Conservative P.B. Vose 15,867 40.58
Majority 7,362 18.83
Turnout 77.50
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1970: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jack Cunningham 22,974 58.32
Conservative W.G. McKay 16,418 41.68
Majority 6,556 16.64
Turnout 78.27
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Joseph Bede Symonds 22,726 61.99
Conservative J.A. Kevill 13,935 38.01
Majority 8,791 23.98
Turnout 78.79
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1964: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Joseph Bede Symonds 23,267 60.11
Conservative Edmund Brudenell 15,440 39.89
Majority 7,827 20.22
Turnout 82.02
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Joseph Bede Symonds 22,783 57.77
Conservative H.J. Pedraza 16,653 42.23
Majority 6,130 15.54
Turnout 84.54
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1955: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank Anderson 22,348 58.04
Conservative G.W. Iredell 16,154 41.96
Majority 6,194 16.09
Turnout 83.78
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1951: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank Anderson 23,190 59.19
Conservative G.W. Iredell 15,990 40.81
Majority 7,200 18.38
Turnout 85.24
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1950: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank Anderson 22,850 60.00
Conservative W. Nunn 15,233 40.00
Majority 7,617 20.00
Turnout 87.04
Labour hold Swing

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank Anderson 18,568 61.10
Conservative W.O. Hill 11,821 38.90
Majority 6,747 22.20
Turnout 82.96
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank Anderson 14,794 48.92
Conservative William Nunn 14,442 47.76
Ind. Labour Party Tom Stephenson 1,004 3.32
Majority 352 1.16
Turnout 86.98
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
General Election 1931: Whitehaven
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Nunn 16,286 53.33
Labour Morgan Philips Price 14,255 46.67
Majority 2,031 6.65
Turnout 89.62
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Whitehaven [1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Morgan Philips Price 14,034 46.8
Unionist Robert Spear Hudson 12,382 41.3
Liberal Henry Darnley Naylor 3,558 11.9 n/a
Majority 1,652 5.5
Turnout
Labour gain from Unionist Swing
General Election 1923: Whitehaven [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Thomas Gavan-Duffy 12,419 53.0
Unionist Robert Spear Hudson 11,029 47.0
Majority 1,390 6.0 -2.1
Turnout 83.1
Labour hold Swing -1.0

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1906: Whitehaven[3] Electorate 2,945
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William John Dalzell Burnyeat 1,507 55.8
Conservative J. Robertson-Walker 1,194 44.2
Majority 313 11.6
Turnout 2,701 68.2
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing

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.

References

  1. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  2. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  3. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
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