Bury (UK Parliament constituency)
Bury | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County |
Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) |
Major settlements | Bury |
1832–1950 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Bury & Radcliffe |
Created from | Lancashire |
Bury was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bury in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1832 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Bury & Radcliffe.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Sir Henry James | 3,976 | n/a | ||
Conservative | John Grant Lawson | 3,787 | n/a | ||
Majority | 189 | n/a | |||
Turnout | n/a | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | Sir Henry James | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | n/a | |||
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | Sir Henry James | 4,070 | n/a | ||
Liberal | John Parks | 3,241 | n/a | ||
Majority | 829 | n/a | |||
Turnout | n/a | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Kenyon | 3,890 | |||
Liberal | John Frederick Cheetham | 3,215 | |||
Majority | 675 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Kenyon | 4,132 | |||
Liberal | George Toulmin | 3,283 | |||
Majority | 849 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | George Toulmin | 4,213 | 52.6 | ||
Liberal Unionist | Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson | 3,799 | 47.4 | ||
Majority | 414 | 5.4 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +9.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | George Toulmin | 4,626 | |||
Conservative | Reginald Jaffray Lucas | 3,499 | |||
Majority | 1,127 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | George Toulmin | 4,866 | |||
Conservative | Edwin Leach Hartley | 4,258 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Sir George Toulmin | 4,509 | |||
Conservative | Edwin Leach Hartley | 4,254 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
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: Sir George Toulmin
- Unionist:
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Charles Ainsworth | 10,680 | 40.3 | -0.9 | |
Labour | Harry Wright Wallace | 9,568 | 36.1 | -0.6 | |
Liberal | James Duckworth | 6,251 | 23.6 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 1,112 | 4.2 | -0.3 | ||
Turnout | 80.8 | -0.5 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -0.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Charles Ainsworth | 13,382 | 46.9 | +6.6 | |
Labour | Harry Wright Wallace | 10,286 | 36.1 | 0.0 | |
Liberal | James Duckworth | 4,847 | 17.0 | -6.6 | |
Majority | 3,096 | 10.8 | +6.6 | ||
Turnout | 86.5 | +5.7 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | +3.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Charles Ainsworth | 14,845 | 42.2 | ||
Labour | James Bell | 13,175 | 37.4 | ||
Liberal | Clifford Stanley Ickringill | 7,160 | 20.4 | ||
Majority | 1,670 | 4.8 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Charles Ainsworth | 24,975 | 70.3 | +28.1 | |
Labour | James Bell | 10,532 | 29.7 | -7.7 | |
Majority | 14,443 | 40.7 | +35.8 | ||
Turnout | 35,507 | 81.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +17.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alan Ernest Leofric Chorlton | 18,425 | 49.4 | ||
Labour | Edith Clara Summerskill | 12,845 | 34.4 | ||
Liberal | Donald McIntosh Johnson | 6,065 | 16.2 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,580 | 15.0 | |||
Turnout | 37,335 | 83.3 | |||
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;
- Labour: William Harvey Moore[19]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Walter Fletcher | 14,012 | 39.9 | ||
Labour | Sydney Hand | 13,902 | 39.6 | ||
Liberal | Arthur Walter James | 7,211 | 20.5 | ||
Majority | 110 | 0.3 | |||
Turnout | 78.2 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 72. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 89. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 112. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ The Constitiutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 165 (189 in web page)
- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
- 1 2 3 British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ Manchester Evening News 4 Apr 1939
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig