Middlesbrough East (UK Parliament constituency)
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Middlesbrough East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | North Riding of Yorkshire |
1918–1974 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Middlesbrough |
Created from | Middlesbrough |
Middlesbrough East was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Middlesbrough in North East 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 voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Penry Williams | Liberal | |
1922 | John Wesley Brown | Conservative | |
1923 | Penry Williams | Liberal | |
1924 | Ellen Wilkinson | Labour | |
1931 | Ernest Young | Liberal | |
1935 | Alfred Edwards | Labour | |
1948 | Independent | ||
1949 | Conservative | ||
1950 | Hilary Marquand | Labour | |
1962 by-election | Arthur Bottomley | Labour | |
Feb 1974 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Col. Penry Williams | 8,470 | 69.2 | n/a | |
Labour | Lt. Frederick William Carey | 3,776 | 30.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 4,694 | 38.4 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 48.4 | n/a | |||
Liberal win |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | John Wesley Brown | 8,885 | 39.0 | n/a | |
Labour | Martin Henry Conolly | 7,607 | 33.4 | +2.6 | |
Liberal | Penry Williams | 6,295 | 27.6 | ||
Majority | 1,278 | 5.6 | |||
Turnout | 78.8 | +30.4 | |||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Penry Williams | 9,241 | 40.6 | +13.0 | |
Labour | Martin Henry Conolly | 7,712 | 33.9 | +0.5 | |
Unionist | James Reid | 5,790 | 25.5 | -13.5 | |
Majority | 1,529 | 6.7 | |||
Turnout | 77.3 | -1.5 | |||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ellen Cicely Wilkinson | 9,574 | 38.5 | ||
Unionist | J R P Warde-Aldam | 8,647 | 34.7 | ||
Liberal | Penry Williams | 6,688 | 26.8 | ||
Majority | 927 | 3.8 | |||
Turnout | 83.7 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ellen Cicely Wilkinson | 12,215 | 41.3 | +2.8 | |
Liberal | Ernest James Young | 9,016 | 30.6 | +3.8 | |
Unionist | John Wesley Brown | 8,278 | 28.1 | -6.6 | |
Majority | 3,199 | 10.7 | +6.9 | ||
Turnout | 80.8 | -2.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.5 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Ernest James Young | 18,409 | 60.4 | ||
Labour | Ellen Cicely Wilkinson | 12,080 | 39.6 | ||
Majority | 6,329 | 20.8 | |||
Turnout | 84.5 | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alfred Edwards | 12,699 | 44.0 | ||
Conservative | B Chetwynd-Talbot | 12,632 | 43.7 | ||
Liberal | Ernest James Young | 3,565 | 12.3 | ||
Majority | 67 | 0.23 | |||
Turnout | 81.14 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | 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;
- Labour: Alfred Edwards
- Conservative: B Chetwynd-Talbot
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alfred Edwards | 17,427 | 65.1 | ||
Conservative | B Chetwynd-Talbot | 9,352 | 34.9 | ||
Majority | 8,075 | 30.2 | |||
Turnout | 76.7 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hilary Adair Marquand | 29,185 | 62.77 | ||
Conservative | Alfred Edwards | 12,402 | 26.67 | ||
Liberal | William Stanley Russell Thomas | 4,540 | 9.76 | ||
Communist | N Levy | 367 | 0.79 | ||
Majority | 16,783 | 36.10 | |||
Turnout | 82.90 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hilary Adair Marquand | 31,277 | 66.51 | ||
Conservative | Ralph M Turton | 15,749 | 33.49 | ||
Majority | 15,528 | 33.02 | |||
Turnout | 80.93 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hilary Adair Marquand | 27,036 | 62.42 | ||
Conservative | Bernard A Connelly | 16,278 | 37.58 | ||
Majority | 10,758 | 24.84 | |||
Turnout | 72.72 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hilary Adair Marquand | 29,391 | 61.54 | ||
Conservative | Derek R Chapman | 18,365 | 38.46 | ||
Majority | 11,026 | 23.09 | |||
Turnout | 76.21 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur George Bottomley | 18,928 | 60.6 | -0.9 | |
Liberal | George Edwin Scott | 7,145 | 22.9 | n/a | |
Conservative | Frederick A. S. Wood | 4,613 | 14.8 | -23.7 | |
Union Movement | Edward Jeffrey Hamm | 550 | 1.7 | n/a | |
Majority | 11,783 | 37.7 | |||
Turnout | 31,236 | 52.1 | -24.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur George Bottomley | 29,432 | 69.50 | ||
Conservative | Frederick A. S. Wood | 12,917 | 30.50 | ||
Majority | 16,515 | 39.00 | |||
Turnout | 72.94 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur George Bottomley | 28,404 | 75.10 | ||
Conservative | P Darby | 9,420 | 24.90 | ||
Majority | 18,984 | 50.19 | |||
Turnout | 68.27 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Election in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur George Bottomley | 23,581 | 71.02 | ||
Conservative | NN Laville | 9,623 | 29.98 | ||
Majority | 13,958 | 42.04 | |||
Turnout | 60.35 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
Categories:
- EngvarB from September 2013
- Use dmy dates from September 2013
- 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 in North East England (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1918
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1974
- Politics of Middlesbrough