Bristol North (UK Parliament constituency)

Bristol North
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
Major settlements	Bristol
1885–1950
Seats	One
Created from	Bristol
Replaced by	Bristol North East

Bristol North was a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The wards of District, St James's, and St Paul's, part of North ward, and the local government district of Stapleton.

1918-1950: The County Borough of Bristol wards of District, St Philip and Jacob North, and Stapleton, and part of Easton ward.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1885	Lewis Fry	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1886		Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1892	Charles Townsend	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1895	Lewis Fry	Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1900	Sir Frederick Wills, Bt.	Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1906	Augustine Birrell	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" |	1918	Edwin Stanley Gange	Coalition Liberal
style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)/meta/color" |	1922	Christian Henry Charles Guest	National Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1923	Walter Henry Ayles	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1924	Frederick Edward Guest	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1929	Walter Henry Ayles	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1931	Robert Bernays	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |	1936		National Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color" |	1945	William Coldrick	Labour Co-operative
	1950	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1900s

Augustine Birrell

General Election 1906: Bristol North Electorate 13,061

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Augustine Birrell	6,953	63.4	+17.5
	Liberal Unionist	J A Foote	4,011	36.6	−17.5
Majority			2,942	26.8	35.0
Turnout				83.9	+8.9
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+17.5

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Bristol North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Edwin Stanley Gange	11,400	60.2
	Labour	James Kaylor	5,007	26.5
	National	Ernest Willoughby Petter	2,520	13.3
Majority			6,393	33.8
	National Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Bristol North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Christian Henry Charles Guest	17,495	64.6
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	9,567	35.4
Majority			7,928	29.3
	National Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Bristol North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	10,433	37.5	+1.9
	Liberal	Christian Henry Charles Guest	8,770	31.5	−33.1
	Unionist	Ernest Willoughby Petter	8,643	31.0	n/a
Majority			1,663	6.0	35.0
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+17.5

General Election 1924: Bristol North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Frederick Edward Guest	17,799	59.1
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	12,319	40.9
Majority			5,480	18.2
Turnout				79.6
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1929: Bristol North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	18,619	48.7	+7.8
	Independent Liberal	Rt Hon. Frederick Edward Guest	12,932	33.8	−25.3
	Liberal	John Osborne Marshall Skelton	6,713	17.5	n/a
Majority			5,687	14.9
Turnout				78.1
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Bristol North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Hamilton Bernays	27,040	66.2
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	13,826	33.8
Majority			13,214	32.3
Turnout				80.9
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Bristol North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Hamilton Bernays	20,977	56.5
	Labour	Walter Henry Ayles	16,149	43.5
Majority			4,828	13.0
Turnout				73.2
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Bristol North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Coldrick	22,819	57.8
	National Liberal	John Henshaw Britton	16,648	42.2
Majority			6,171	15.6
Turnout			39,467	74.0	+1.8
	Labour gain from National Liberal		Swing

• Constituency abolished 1950, with the major part going to Bristol North East