Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency)
Sudbury | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1559–1844 | |
Number of members | two |
Sudbury | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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1885–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Sudbury and Woodbridge |
Sudbury was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in the British House of Commons. A parliamentary borough consisting of the town of Sudbury in Suffolk, it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1559 until it was disenfranchised for corruption in 1844. The Sudbury election of 1835, which Charles Dickens reported for the Morning Chronicle, is thought by many experts to be the inspiration for the famous Eatanswill election in his novel Pickwick Papers.[1]
A county constituency of the same name was established by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, electing one MP by the first past the post voting system. It was abolished for the 1950 general election.
Boundaries
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Members of Parliament
MPs 1559–1640
Parliament | First member | Second member |
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1559 | Clement Throckmorton | Henry Fortescue [2] |
1563 | John Heigham | Thomas Andrews [2] |
1571 | John Hunt | John Gurdon[2] |
1572 | Richard Eden | Martin Cole[2] |
1584 | Edward Waldegrave | Henry Blagge [2] |
1586 | Henry Blagge | Geoffrey Rusham [2] |
1588 | Thomas Eden | Thomas Jermin [2] |
1593 | William Fortescue | Dudley Fortescue [2] |
1597 | George Waldegrave | John Clapham [2] |
1601 | Philip Gawdy | Edward Glascock [2] |
1604-1611 | Sir Thomas Beckingham | Thomas Eden, jnr |
1614 | Robert Crane | Henry Binge |
1621 | Edward Osburne | Brampton Gurdon |
1624 | Robert Crane | Sir William Pooley |
1625 | Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston | Robert Crane |
1626 | Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston | Thomas Smith |
1628 | Sir Robert Crane | Sir William Pooley |
1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned |
MPs 1640–1844
Notes
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- ↑ Created a baronet, July 1641
- ↑ Created a baronet, September 1772
- ↑ Created a baronet, May 1774
- ↑ On petition, the result of the election of 1774 was overturned: Fonnereau and Crespigny were declared not to have been duly elected and their opponents, Blake and Hanmer, were seated in their place
- ↑ On petition, Crespigny was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Marriott was seated in his place
- ↑ Elected on the casting vote of the returning officer after a tie in votes. His opponent petitioned against the decision, denying that the returning officer was entitled to a casting vote, but Parliament was dissolved before the issue had been settled.
- ↑ The 1841 election was declared void on petition and a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate, which eventually led to the disfranchisement of the constituency
MPs 1885–1950
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Cuthbert Quilter | 4,913 | 58.7 | n/a | |
Conservative | Thomas Weller Poley | 3,461 | 41.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,452 | 17.4 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 79.6 | n/a | |||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | William Cuthbert Quilter | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | William Cuthbert Quilter | 5,111 | 63.8 | n/a | |
Liberal | AG Ogilvie | 2,905 | 36.2 | n/a | |
Majority | 2,206 | 27.6 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 75.4 | n/a | |||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | William Cuthbert Quilter | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Sir William Cuthbert Quilter | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Charles Heaton-Armstrong | 4,201 | 50.8 | n/a | |
Liberal Unionist | Sir William Cuthbert Quilter | 4,065 | 49.2 | n/a | |
Majority | 136 | 1.6 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 81.7 | n/a | |||
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Eley Cuthbert Quilter | 5,026 | 55.9 | ||
Liberal | Francis Wrigley Hirst | 3,958 | 44.1 | ||
Majority | 1,068 | 11.8 | |||
Turnout | 89.5 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Eley Cuthbert Quilter | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
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 and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Unionist: Sir William Eley Cuthbert Quilter
- Liberal: Stephen Goodwin Howard[2]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Maj. Stephen Goodwin Howard | 6,656 | 52.1 | ||
Unionist |
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5,746 | 44.9 | ||
Labour |
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390 | 3.0 | ||
Majority | 910 | 7.2 | |||
Turnout | 48.4 | ||||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing |
- endorsed by the Coalition Government.
- * some records describe him as an 'Agriculture' candidate.
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Herbert Mercer | 7,298 | 47.0 | +2.1 | |
National Liberal | Stephen Goodwin Howard | 5,410 | 34.9 | n/a | |
Liberal | E W Tanner | 2,813 | 18.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,888 | 12.1 | |||
Turnout | 59.3 | +10.9 | |||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Frederick Loverseed | 8,813 | 52.0 | * -1.0 | |
Unionist | Herbert Mercer | 8,148 | 48.0 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 4.0 | 16.1 | |||
Turnout | 63.8 | ||||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | -1.0 |
- compared to combined 1922 Liberal vote.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Henry Walter Burton | 10,579 | 53.6 | +5.6 | |
Liberal | John Frederick Loverseed | 9,168 | 46.4 | -5.6 | |
Majority | 1,411 | 7.2 | 11.2 | ||
Turnout | 73.3 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +5.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Henry Walter Burton | 9,715 | 40.2 | -13.4 | |
Liberal | Alan John Sainsbury | 8,309 | 34.4 | -12.0 | |
Labour | W. Jack Shingfield | 6,147 | 25.4 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,406 | 5.8 | -1.4 | ||
Turnout | 75.9 | +2.6 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -0.7 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Henry Walter Burton | 13,500 | 55.3 | +15.1 | |
Liberal | Alan John Sainsbury | 10,929 | 44.7 | +10.3 | |
Majority | 2,571 | 10.6 | +4.8 | ||
Turnout | 76.7 | +0.8 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Henry Walter Burton | 11,700 | 49.3 | -6.0 | |
Liberal | Alan John Sainsbury | 8,344 | 35.2 | -9.5 | |
Labour | H Denton | 3,670 | 15.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 3,356 | 14.1 | |||
Turnout | 23,714 | 74.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.7 |
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: Henry Burton
- Liberal: Frederic Sellers
- Labour: Roland Hamilton
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Roland Hamilton | 9,906 | 40.3 | ||
Conservative | Henry Walter Burton | 9,659 | 39.2 | ||
Liberal | Margaret Hitchcock | 5,045 | 20.5 | ||
Majority | 247 | 1.1 | |||
Turnout | 69.5 | ||||
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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- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [3]
- H G Nicholas, To The Hustings: Election scenes from English fiction (London, Cassell & Co., 1956)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)[self-published source][better source needed]
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