North Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)
North Cumberland | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Penrith and The Border |
Created from | Eskdale and Penrith |
North Cumberland (also "Cumberland Northern")[1][2] was a parliamentary constituency in Cumberland which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system of election.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Boundaries
The Urban Districts of Holme Cultram and Wigton, the Rural Districts of Brampton, Carlisle, and Longtown, and part of the Rural District of Wigton.
Members of Parliament
Year | Member | Whip | |
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1918 | Christopher Lowther | Unionist | |
1921 | Independent Parliamentary Group | ||
1922 | Donald Howard | Unionist | |
1926 | Sir Fergus Graham | Unionist | |
1935 | Wilfrid Roberts | Liberal | |
1950 | Constituency abolished |
Election results
Election in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | Hon. Christopher William Lowther | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Unionist win | |||||
Election in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard | 8,815 | 50.8 | n/a | |
Liberal | Hon. Geoffrey William Algernon Howard | 8,544 | 49.2 | n/a | |
Majority | 271 | 1.6 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 79.9 | n/a | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard | 9,288 | 50.6 | -0.2 | |
Liberal | Richard Durning Holt | 9,070 | 49.4 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 218 | 1.2 | -0.4 | ||
Turnout | 83.2 | +3.3 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -0.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard | 10,586 | 54.2 | +3.6 | |
Liberal | Richard Durning Holt | 6,821 | 34.9 | ||
Labour | B. Brooke | 2,125 | 10.9 | n/a | |
Majority | 3,765 | 19.3 | |||
Turnout | 86.0 | +2.8 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | Frederick Fergus Graham | 8,867 | 47.8 | -6.4 | |
Liberal | Richard Durning Holt | 6,871 | 37.1 | +2.2 | |
Labour | H. W. McIntyre | 2,793 | 15.1 | +4.2 | |
Majority | 10.7 | ||||
Turnout | 82.0 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Frederick Fergus Graham | 10,392 | 44.9 | ||
Liberal | Richard Durning Holt | 9,661 | 41.7 | ||
Labour | C. A. O'Donnell | 3,092 | 13.4 | ||
Majority | 731 | 3.2 | -7.5 | ||
Turnout | 83.7 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Fergus Graham | 12,504 | 52.7 | ||
Liberal | Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts | 11,277 | 47.3 | ||
Majority | 1,277 | 5.4 | |||
Turnout | 84.6 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts | 12,521 | 51.9 | ||
Conservative | Sir Frederick Fergus Graham | 11,627 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 83.9 | -0.7 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
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;
- Liberal: Wilfrid Roberts
- Conservative:
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts | 12,053 | 50.4 | ||
Conservative | Ronald Nicholson Carr | 11,855 | 49.6 | ||
Majority | 198 | 0.83 | |||
Turnout | 75.7 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||