Whitby (UK Parliament constituency)
Whitby | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1832–1885 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Whitby |
Created from | Yorkshire |
1885–1918 | |
Number of members | One |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Replaced by | Scarborough and Whitby |
Created from | North Riding of Yorkshire and Whitby |
Whitby was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, MP elected by the first past the post system.
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History
The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election as a parliamentary borough, Whitby being at that point one of the most prosperous towns in England which had not previously been represented. (Whitby had been summoned to send members to the Protectorate Parliaments during the Civil War period, but never at any other time.) It consisted of Whitby itself and the adjoining townships of Ruswarp, Hawsker and Stainsacre, and had a population of just over 10,000.
Whitby's shipbuilding industry had been in decline even before the new borough was established, and by 1885 a separate MP for the town could no longer be justified. However, when the borough was abolished the county constituency which absorbed it was also named Whitby (strictly, the Whitby Division of the North Riding of Yorkshire): it contained all the easternmost part of the Riding apart from Scarborough (which remained a separate borough), stretching south-west to Pickering which was the only other town in the constituency.
The Whitby division was abolished for the 1918 general election, when it was partially replaced by the new Scarborough & Whitby constituency.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ernest William Beckett | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Noel Edward Buxton | 4,547 | 52.6 | n/a | |
Conservative | Hon. William Gervase Beckett | 4,102 | 47.4 | n/a | |
Majority | 445 | 5.2 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 79.7 | n/a | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Hon. William Gervase Beckett | 4,780 | 50.4 | +3.0 | |
Liberal | Noel Edward Buxton | 4,709 | 49.6 | -3.0 | |
Majority | 71 | 0.8 | -4.4 | ||
Turnout | 84.2 | +4.5 | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +3.0 |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Hon. William Gervase Beckett | ||||
Liberal | James Willoughby Jardine | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- 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 Yorkshire and the Humber (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1832
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1918
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