King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency)
King's Lynn | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1298–1918 | |
Number of members | two (1298–1885), one (1885–1918) |
Norfolk, King's Lynn | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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1918–February 1974 | |
Number of members | one |
King's Lynn was a constituency in Norfolk, known as Lynn or Bishop's Lynn prior to 1537, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1885, and one member thereafter. Until 1918 it was a parliamentary borough, after which the name was transferred to a county constituency. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election.
Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister, was an MP for the constituency for almost the entirety of his parliamentary career, from 1702 to 1742.
Boundaries
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Members of Parliament
MPs before 1640
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MPs 1640–1885
MPs 1885–1974
Notes
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ Salisbury had been a peer, sitting in the House of Lords, since 1612, but became eligible to sit in the Commons after the House of Lords was abolished
- ↑ Desborough was also elected for Somerset
- ↑ Walpole was expelled from the House of Commons in January 1712 for "a high Breach of trust and notorious corruption". He was re-elected at the ensuing by-election, but the Commons resolved that having been expelled he was not capable of being re-elected to the House in the same session. Rather than awarding the election to his opponent, the election was declared void and a new writ was issued.
- ↑ Styled Lord Walpole from 1806
- ↑ Styled Lord Stanley from 1851
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
- representation reduced to one member
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rt Hon. Robert Bourke | 1,472 | 53.1 | ||
Liberal | Sir William Hovell Browne ffolkes | 1,302 | 46.9 | ||
Majority | 170 | 6.2 | |||
Turnout | 89.7 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rt Hon. Robert Bourke | 1,417 | 55.3 | +2.2 | |
Liberal | John James Briscoe | 1,146 | 44.7 | -2.2 | |
Majority | 271 | 10.6 | +4.4 | ||
Turnout | 82.8 | -6.9 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alexander Weston Jarvis | 1,423 | 54.9 | ||
Liberal | J H Sanders | 1,168 | 45.1 | ||
Majority | 255 | 9.8 | |||
Turnout | 83.7 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Thomas Gibson Bowles | 1,319 | 50.2 | -4.7 | |
Liberal | Thomas R. Kemp | 1,308 | 49.8 | +4.7 | |
Majority | 11 | 0.4 | -9.4 | ||
Turnout | 88.5 | +4.8 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -4.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Thomas Gibson Bowles | 1,395 | 51.3 | +1.1 | |
Liberal | Hubert George Beaumont | 1,326 | 48.7 | -1.1 | |
Majority | 69 | 2.6 | +2.2 | ||
Turnout | 91.3 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.1 |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Thomas Gibson Bowles | 1,499 | 52.9 | +1.6 | |
Liberal | Frederick Handel Booth | 1,332 | 47.1 | -1.6 | |
Majority | 167 | 5.8 | +3.2 | ||
Turnout | 88.2 | -3.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Carlyon Wilfroy Bellairs | 1,506 | 43.8 | ||
Independent Conservative | Thomas Gibson Bowles | 1,164 | 33.8 | n/a | |
Conservative | Alan Hughes Burgoyne | 772 | 22.4 | n/a | |
Majority | 342 | 10.0 | |||
Turnout | 93.2 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Thomas Gibson Bowles | 1,900 | |||
Conservative | Hon. Edward Cecil George Cadogan | 1,638 | |||
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Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Holcombe Ingleby | 1,765 | |||
Liberal | Thomas Gibson Bowles | 1,668 | |||
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Conservative gain from Liberal | 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 from 1914 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
- Unionist: Holcombe Ingleby
- Liberal:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | 10,146 | 50.9 | |||
Labour | Robert Barrie Walker | 9,780 | 49.1 | ||
Majority | 366 | 1.8 | |||
Turnout | 59.7 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
- endorsed by the Coalition Government
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Sir Neville Paul Jodrell | 9,862 | 37.2 | -13.7 | |
Labour | Robert Barrie Walker | 8,683 | 32.7 | -16.4 | |
Liberal | George Graham Woodwark | 7,970 | 30.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,179 | 4.5 | +2.7 | ||
Turnout | 75.5 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +1.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | George Graham Woodwark | 9,943 | 38.7 | +8.6 | |
Unionist | Sir Neville Paul Jodrell | 9,266 | 36.1 | -1.7 | |
Labour | John Stevenson | 6,488 | 25.2 | -6.9 | |
Majority | 677 | 2.6 | 7.1 | ||
Turnout | 71.9 | -3.6 | |||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +5.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Lord Fermoy | 11,710 | 41.6 | ||
Liberal | George Graham Woodwark | 9,184 | 32.6 | ||
Labour | John Stevenson | 7,280 | 25.8 | ||
Majority | 2,526 | 9.0 | |||
Turnout | 77.6 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Lord Fermoy | 14,501 | 40.7 | -0.9 | |
Liberal | William Bertram Mitford | 10,806 | 30.3 | -2.3 | |
Labour | Sir Herbert John Maynard | 10,356 | 29.0 | +3.2 | |
Majority | 3,695 | 10.4 | +1.4 | ||
Turnout | 79.1 | +1.5 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | +0.7 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Lord Fermoy | 23,687 | 70.2 | ||
Labour | David Freeman | 10,054 | 29.8 | ||
Majority | 13,633 | 40.4 | |||
Turnout | 33,741 | 72.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Somerset Arthur Maxwell | 17,492 | 50.0 | ||
Labour | F Emerson | 12,062 | 34.5 | ||
Liberal | Frank Ongley Darvall | 5,418 | 15.5 | ||
Majority | 5,430 | 15.5 | |||
Turnout | 34,972 | 71.7 | |||
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: Somerset Arthur Maxwell
- Labour: Frederick Wise
- Liberal: R H Kerkham
- British Union: A E Ilett
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Lord Fermoy | 10,696 | 54.2 | +4.2 | |
Independent Labour | Maj. Frederick John Wise | 9,027 | 45.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,669 | 8.4 | −7.1 | ||
Turnout | 9,723 | 39.8 | −31.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Maj. Frederick John Wise | 18,202 | 48.7 | ||
Conservative | William Donald Hamilton McCullough | 14,928 | 39.9 | ||
Liberal | Alexander Peckover Doyle Penrose | 3,796 | 10.2 | ||
Independent | Com. Geoffrey Bowles | 444 | 1.2 | ||
Majority | 3,274 | 8.8 | |||
Turnout | 73.3 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
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- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
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Succeeded by vacant. Next was Sussex in 1743 |
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