Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency)

Sunderland
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1832–1950
Number of members	Two

Sunderland was a borough constituency of the House of Commons, created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election. It elected two Members of Parliament (MP) by the bloc vote system of election until it was split into single-member seats of Sunderland North and Sunderland South for the 1950 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Sir William Chaytor, Bt.	Whig		George Barrington
1833 by-election					William Thompson
1835		David Barclay
1837		Andrew White
June 1841		David Barclay
September 1841 by-election					Viscount Howick	Whig
1845 by-election					George Hudson	Conservative
December 1847 by-election		Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bt.
1852		William Seymour	Liberal
1855 by-election		Henry Fenwick	Liberal
1859					William Shaw Lindsay	Liberal
1865					James Hartley	Conservative
1866 by-election		John Candlish	Liberal
1868					Edward Temperley Gourley	Liberal
1874		Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, Bt.	Liberal
1881 by-election		Samuel Storey	Liberal
1895		Theodore Doxford	Unionist
1900					John Stapylton Grey Pemberton	Conservative
1906		James Stuart	Liberal		Thomas Summerbell	Labour
January 1910		Samuel Storey	Independent Conservative		James Knott	Conservative
December 1910		Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt.	Liberal		Frank Walter Goldstone	Labour
1918			Coalition Liberal		Ralph Milbanke Hudson	Conservative
1922		Luke Thompson	Conservative		Walter Raine	Conservative
1929		Marion Phillips	Labour		Alfred Smith	Labour
May 1931 by-election					Luke Thompson	Conservative
October 1931		Samuel Storey junior	Conservative
1935					Stephen Noel Furness	National Liberal
1945		Richard Ewart	Labour		Frederick Thomas Willey	Labour
1950	constituency abolished: see Sunderland North and Sunderland South

Election results

General Election 1945: Sunderland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Frederick Thomas Willey	38,769	28.11
	Labour	Y Richard Ewart	36,711	26.62
	Liberal National	Stephen Noel Furness	29,366	21.29
	Conservative	Samuel Storey junior	28,579	20.72
	Communist	T.A. Tichardson	4,501	3.26
Majority			7,345	5.90
Turnout				76.23
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal National		Swing

General Election 1935: Sunderland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Y Stephen Noel Furness	49,001	30.19
	Conservative	Y Samuel Storey junior	48,760	30.04
	Labour	G.E.G. Catlin	32,483	20.01
	Labour	Mrs. L. Manning	32,059	19.75
Majority			16,277	10.03
Turnout				78.08
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Liberal National gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1931: Sunderland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Y Luke Thompson	53,386	32.28
	Conservative	Y Samuel Storey junior	52,589	31.80
	Labour	Marion Phillips	29,707	17.96
	Labour	D.N. Pritt	29,680	17.95
Majority			22,882	13.84
Turnout				79.84
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Sunderland by-election, 1931 Electorate 103,363

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Y Luke Thompson	30,497	40.3
	Labour	James Thomas Brownlie	30,074	39.8
	Liberal	Dr. Elizabeth Trebelle Morgan	15,020	19.9
Majority			423	0.5
Turnout				73.1
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1929: Sunderland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	YMarion Phillips	31,794	19.5
	Labour	YAlfred Smith	31,085	19.0
	Conservative	Sir Walter Raine	29,180	17.9
	Conservative	Luke Thompson	28,937	17.7
	Liberal	Dr. Elizabeth Trebelle Morgan	21,300	13.0
	Liberal	Sir John William Pratt	21,142	12.9
Majority			1,905	1.1
Turnout
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1906: Sunderland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Y James Stuart	13,620
	Labour	Y Thomas Summerbell	13,430
	Conservative		7,879
	Conservative		7,244
Majority			5,551
Turnout
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative and Unionist Party		Swing

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)