Buckrose (UK Parliament constituency)
Yorkshire, East Riding, Buckrose Division | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | East Riding of Yorkshire |
1885–1950 | |
Replaced by | Bridlington and Beverley |
Created from | East Riding of Yorkshire |
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.
It was redefined in 1918 as covering the borough of Bridlington, the urban districts of Great Driffield, Filey, Norton and the rural districts of Bridlington, Great Driffield, Norton and Sherburn.
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.
Contents
Boundaries
The constituency consisted of the northern third of the East Riding. The largest town was Bridlington, but the constituency also included Filey, Driffield and Norton, as well 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 | |
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1885 | Christopher Sykes | Conservative | |
1886 | William Alexander McArthur[1] | Liberal | |
1886 | Christopher Sykes | Conservative | |
1892 | Sir Angus Holden | Liberal | |
1900 | Sir Luke White | Liberal | |
1918 | Algernon Henry Moreing | Coalition Liberal | |
1922 | Sir Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt [2] | Conservative | |
1926 by-election | Sir Albert Braithwaite | Conservative | |
1945 | George Wadsworth | Liberal | |
1950 | constituency abolished: see Bridlington and Beverley |
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Christopher Sykes | n/a | |||
Liberal | n/a | ||||
Majority | 296 | 3.8 | n/a | ||
Turnout | n/a | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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;
- Liberal: Sir Luke White
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Coalition 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 | |||||
Coalition Liberal gain from Liberal | Swing |
- denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Sir Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt | 12,012 | 51.3 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Davis Fenby | 11,411 | 48.7 | ||
Majority | 601 | 2.6 | |||
Turnout | 82.5 | ||||
Unionist gain from National Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Sir Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt | 13,966 | 56.0 | ||
Liberal | H A Briggs | 10,962 | 44.0 | ||
Majority | 3,004 | 12.0 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Albert Newby Braithwaite | 12,098 | 48.7 | -7.3 | |
Liberal | Sir Harry Calvert Williams Verney | 10,537 | 42.5 | -1.5 | |
Labour | H. C. Laycock | 2,191 | 8.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,552 | 6.2 | -5.8 | ||
Turnout | 82.9 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | -2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Albert Newby Braithwaite | 15,625 | 50.0 | +1.3 | |
Liberal | Sidney Streatfield 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 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | -0.3 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Albert Newby Braithwaite | unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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;
- Conservative: Albert Braithwaite
- Liberal: Thomas Macleod
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Resigned his seat
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, F W S Craig
References
- F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49" (Glasgow: Parliamentary Research Services, 1969)
- Michael Kinnear, "The British Voter" (London: Batsford, 1968)
- Frederic A Youngs, jr, "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II" (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- "The Constitutional Yearbook, 1913" (London: National Unionist Association, 1913)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)[self-published source][better source needed]
- Pages with broken file links
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies of the East Riding of Yorkshire (defunct)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1885
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1950