Elland (UK Parliament constituency)
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Elland | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | West Riding of Yorkshire |
Major settlements | Elland, Brighouse |
1885–1950 | |
Replaced by | Brighouse & Spenborough |
Created from | Northern West Riding of Yorkshire |
Elland was a parliamentary constituency in the West Riding of Yorkshire that existed between 1885 and 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons, by the first-past-the-post voting system.
Situated between Bradford in the North, Halifax in the West, and Huddersfield to the south, it included the mining town of Brighouse and the wool centre of Elland. With a sizeable Nonconformist population (estimated at 15 per cent in 1922), it was natural Liberal territory, and was a fairly safe Liberal and later Labour seat, falling to the Conservatives only in the 'khaki election' of 1918 and the Labour collapse of 1931. In the 1918 redistribution it lost some territory and it was abolished in 1950. A sizeable part of the area was transferred to the new Brighouse and Spenborough seat.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Thomas Wayman | 6,516 | 65.3 | n/a | |
Conservative | Frederic Carne Rasch | 3,457 | 34.7 | n/a | |
Majority | 3,059 | 30.6 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 84.2 | n/a | |||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Thomas Wayman | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Thomas Wayman | 5,497 | 59.9 | n/a | |
Conservative | James Fitzalan Hope | 3,676 | 40.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,821 | 19.8 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 68.3 | n/a | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Thomas Wayman | 5,387 | 51.5 | -8.4 | |
Conservative | Arthur Travis Clay | 5,081 | 48.5 | +8.4 | |
Majority | 306 | 3.0 | -16.8 | ||
Turnout | 83.6 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -8.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Philips Trevelyan | 6,041 | 54.4 | ||
Conservative | Philip Staveley Foster | 5,057 | 45.6 | ||
Majority | 984 | 8.87 | |||
Turnout | 85.9 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Philips Trevelyan | 6,154 | 57.7 | ||
Conservative | Edward Feetham Coates | 4,512 | 42.3 | ||
Majority | 1,642 | 15.4 | |||
Turnout | 81.1 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Philips Trevelyan | 7,609 | 65.8 | ||
Conservative | Sir Thomas Henry Brooke-Hitching | 3,962 | 34.2 | ||
Majority | 3,647 | 31.6 | |||
Turnout | 83.7 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Philips Trevelyan | 7,469 | 61.4 | -4.4 | |
Conservative | George Taylor Ramsden | 4,686 | 38.6 | +4.4 | |
Majority | 2,783 | 22.8 | -8.8 | ||
Turnout | 87.1 | +3.4 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | -4.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Philips Trevelyan | 6,613 | 59.2 | ||
Conservative | George Taylor Ramsden | 4,549 | 40.8 | ||
Majority | 2,064 | 18.4 | |||
Turnout | 80.0 | ||||
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: Charles Philips Trevelyan
- Unionist: George Taylor Ramsden
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | 8,917 | 38.4 | |||
Liberal | Harry Dawson | 7,028 | 30.4 | n/a | |
Labour | Dennis Hardaker | 5,923 | 25.6 | n/a | |
Independent Labour | Charles Philips Trevelyan | 1,286 | 5.6 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,889 | 8.0 | |||
Turnout | 67.0 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing |
- candidate endorsed by the Coalition Government.
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | William Cornforth Robinson | 10,590 | 36.8 | +11.2 | |
National Liberal | Sir Robert Newbald Kay | 10,160 | 35.3 | +4.9 | |
Unionist | George Taylor Ramsden | 8,039 | 27.9 | -10.5 | |
Majority | 430 | 1.5 | |||
Turnout | 81.9 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Sir Robert Newbald Kay | 12,476 | 50.9 | +15.6 | |
Labour | William Cornforth Robinson | 12,031 | 49.1 | +12.3 | |
Majority | 445 | 1.8 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 70.0 | -11.9 | |||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | +1.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Cornforth Robinson | 11,690 | 39.5 | ||
Unionist | Albert Newby Braithwaite | 11,202 | 37.8 | ||
Liberal | Sir Robert Newbald Kay | 6,713 | 22.7 | ||
Majority | 488 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 84.1 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Charles Roden Buxton | 17,012 | 43.7 | +4.2 | |
Unionist | Sam Howard | 11,150 | 28.7 | 9.1 | |
Liberal | William Haughton Sessions | 10,734 | 27.6 | +4.9 | |
Majority | 5,862 | 15.0 | +13.3 | ||
Turnout | 83.6 | -0.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.6 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Levy | 25,378 | 65.2 | ||
Labour | Charles Roden Buxton | 13,563 | 34.8 | ||
Majority | 11,815 | 30.4 | |||
Turnout | 38,941 | 82.5 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Levy | 19,498 | 52.2 | ||
Labour | Charles Roden Buxton | 17,856 | 47.8 | ||
Majority | 1,642 | 4.4 | |||
Turnout | 37,454 | 77.2 | |||
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: Thomas Levy
- Labour: Gilbert Mitchison
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Frederick Arthur Cobb | 19,632 | 50.3 | ||
Conservative | Thomas Levy | 11,570 | 29.7 | ||
Liberal | John Wilson | 7,805 | 20.0 | ||
Majority | 8,062 | 20.6 | |||
Turnout | 79.9 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
See also
References
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
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- ↑ 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, 1918-1949 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 (Craig)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
- Michael Kinnear, The British Voter: An Atlas and Survey Since 1885 (London: Batsford Academic and Educational Ltd., 1981, 2nd ed.)
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