Bolton (UK Parliament constituency)
Bolton | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1832–1950 | |
Number of members | two |
Replaced by | Bolton East and Bolton West |
Created from | Lancashire |
Bolton was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bolton in the county of Lancashire. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.
Created by the Reform Act of 1832, it was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was abolished in 1950, being split into single-member divisions of Bolton East and Bolton West.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | ![]() |
unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal | ![]() |
unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | ![]() |
10,953 | 39.0 | n/a | |
Labour | ![]() |
10,416 | 37.1 | n/a | |
Conservative | Hon. George Joachim Goschen | 6,693 | n/a | ||
Majority | n/a | ||||
Turnout | 91.5 | n/a | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | ![]() |
12,275 | |||
Labour | ![]() |
11,864 | |||
Conservative | Miles Walker Mattinson | 7,479 | |||
Conservative | Percy Ashworth | 7,326 | |||
Majority | 4,385 | 11.3 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | ![]() |
10,358 | 35.5 | ||
Labour | ![]() |
10,108 | 34.7 | ||
Conservative | George Hesketh | 8,697 | 29.8 | ||
Majority | 1,411 | 4.9 | |||
Turnout | 89.3 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | ![]() |
10,011 | 53.1 | ||
Unionist | Arthur Brooks | 8,835 | 46.9 | ||
Majority | 1,176 | 6.2 | |||
Turnout | 18,846 | 88.9 | |||
Liberal hold | 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 and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: Thomas Taylor
- Labour: Robert Tootill
- Unionist: Thomas Clarke Pilling Gibbons
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | unopposed | n/a | n/a | ||
Labour | Robert Tootill | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Labour hold | Swing | n/a |
- endorsed by the Coalition Government
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | William Russell | 37,491 | n/a | ||
National Liberal | Sir William Edge | 31,015 | n/a | ||
Labour | Samuel Lomax | 20,559 | n/a | ||
Labour | William James Abraham | 20,156 | n/a | ||
Liberal | Isaac Edwards | 9,267 | n/a | ||
Turnout | n/a | ||||
Majority | n/a | ||||
National Liberal hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Majority | n/a | ||||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Albert Law | 25,133 | 18.6 | ||
Unionist | Joseph Herbert Cunliffe | 22,833 | 16.9 | ||
Unionist | Cecil Hilton | 22,640 | 16.8 | ||
Liberal | Sir William Edge | 22,173 | 16.5 | ||
Labour | Fleming Eccles | 21,045 | 15.6 | ||
Liberal | John Fletcher Steele | 21,040 | 15.6 | +1.1 | |
Turnout | 80.0 | ||||
Majority | 660 | 0.4 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Majority | 2,493 | 1.8 | |||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Sir Joseph Herbert Cunliffe | 34,690 | |||
Unionist | Cecil Hilton | 33,405 | |||
Labour | Albert Law | 30,632 | |||
Labour | William Harold Hutchinson | 28,918 | |||
Liberal | J P Taylor | 10,036 | |||
Liberal | Alfred Ernest Holt | 8,558 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Majority | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Majority | |||||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Albert Law | 43,520 | 24.0 | ||
Labour | Michael Brothers | 37,888 | 20.9 | ||
Unionist | Cyril Fullard Entwistle | 36,667 | 20.3 | ||
Unionist | Cecil Hilton | 35,850 | 19.8 | ||
Liberal | Patrick Redmond Barry | 27,074 | 15.0 | ||
Turnout | 180,999 | ||||
Majority | 1,221 | 0.7 | |||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | ||||
Majority | |||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Cyril Fullard Entwistle | 66,385 | 33.94 | ||
Conservative | Sir John Haslam | 63,402 | 32.42 | ||
Labour | Albert Law | 33,736 | 17.25 | ||
Labour | Michael Brothers | 32,049 | 16.39 | ||
Turnout | 79.56 | ||||
Majority | |||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Majority | |||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Cyril Fullard Entwistle | 54,129 | 29.05 | ||
Conservative | Sir John Haslam | 52,465 | 28.15 | ||
Labour | Albert Law | 39,890 | 21.41 | ||
Labour | J Lynch | 39,871 | 21.40 | ||
Turnout | 75.07 | ||||
Majority | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Majority | |||||
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: Sir Cyril Entwistle, Sir John Haslam
- Labour: E Mellor
However in the by-election held in 1940 no other parties contested the seat due to the War-time electoral pact meaning that the Conservative candidate Edward Cadogan was elected unopposed.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Henry Jones | 44,595 | 23.99 | ||
Labour | John Lewis | 43,266 | 23.28 | ||
Conservative | Sir J.F.R. Reynolds | 31,217 | 16.79 | ||
Conservative | Maj. Sir Cyril Fullard Entwistle | 30,911 | 16.63 | ||
Liberal | Rev. Robert Kewley Spedding | 18,180 | 9.78 | n/a | |
Liberal | Brian Reginald Connell | 17,710 | 9.53 | n/a | |
Turnout | 77.2 | ||||
Majority | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Majority | 12,049 | 6.65 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ 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 by Craig, F. W. S. (1974)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 by Craig, F. W. S. (1974)
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49, FWS Craig
- Use dmy dates from June 2013
- 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 in North West England (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1832
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1950
- Politics of Bolton Borough