North Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency)
North Northamptonshire | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Northamptonshire |
1832–1918 | |
Seats | 1832–1885: Two 1885–1918: One |
Created from | Northamptonshire and Higham Ferrers |
Replaced by | Wellingborough, Kettering and Peterborough |
North Northamptonshire was a county constituency in Northamptonshire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This constituency included the majority of the Soke of Peterborough (also known as the 'Liberty of Peterborough'), with the exception of the actual city of Peterborough itself, which was a borough constituency that returned its own MP.
Boundaries
[edit]1832–1885: The Liberty of Peterborough, and the Hundreds of Willybrook, Polebrook, Huxloe, Navisford, Corby, Higham Ferrers, Rothwell, Hamfordshoe and Orlingbury.[1]
1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Oundle and Thrapstone, part of the Sessional Division of Kettering (with the exceptions below), the Liberty of the Soke of Peterborough, and the part of the Municipal Borough of Stamford in the county of Northamptonshire. (The part of the Sessional Division of Kettering included in North Northamptonshire excluded the parishes of Broughton, Cransley, Kettering and Pytchley, which were assigned to East Northamptonshire, and also excluded the parishes of Draughton, Faxton, Glendon, Harrington, Loddington, Mawsley, Orton, Rothwell and Thorpe Malsor, which were assigned to Mid Northamptonshire). [2]
The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election, when it was merged into Peterborough.
Members of Parliament
[edit]From 1832 until 1885, the constituency returned two Members of Parliament elected by the bloc vote system. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, with effect from the 1885 general election, its area was reduced and representation reduced to one member, elected by the first past the post voting system.
1832 - 1885
[edit]1885 - 1918
[edit]Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1885 | Lord Burghley | Conservative | |
1895 | Edward Monckton | Conservative | |
1900 | Sackville Stopford-Sackville | Conservative | |
1906 | George Nicholls | Liberal | |
1910 | Henry Brassey | Conservative | |
1918 | constituency abolished |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1830s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam | 1,562 | 26.8 | ||
Tory | James Brudenell | 1,541 | 26.4 | ||
Whig | William Hanbury | 1,455 | 25.0 | ||
Tory | Thomas Tryon | 1,269 | 21.8 | ||
Turnout | 3,063 | 91.1 | |||
Registered electors | 3,363 | ||||
Majority | 21 | 0.4 | |||
Whig win (new seat) | |||||
Majority | 86 | 1.4 | |||
Tory win (new seat) |
Wentworth-Fitzwilliam succeeded to the peerage, becoming 5th Earl Fitzwilliam and causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | William Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton | Unopposed | |||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | William Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | James Brudenell | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,552 | ||||
Whig hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Wentworth-Fitzwilliam's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Philip Maunsell | 1,841 | 59.6 | ||
Whig | William Hanbury | 1,247 | 40.4 | ||
Majority | 594 | 19.2 | |||
Turnout | 3,088 | 85.1 | |||
Registered electors | 3,627 | ||||
Conservative gain from Whig |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Philip Maunsell | 1,842 | 36.5 | ||
Conservative | George Finch-Hatton | 1,801 | 35.7 | ||
Whig | William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam | 1,404 | 27.8 | ||
Majority | 397 | 7.9 | |||
Turnout | 3,164 | 84.2 | |||
Registered electors | 3,757 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Whig |
Elections in the 1840s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Augustus O'Brien | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Thomas Philip Maunsell | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,166 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Augustus Stafford | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Thomas Philip Maunsell | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,065 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1850s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Augustus Stafford | 562 | 48.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Thomas Philip Maunsell | 560 | 48.4 | N/A | |
Whig | George Wentworth-FitzWilliam[5] | 34 | 2.9 | New | |
Majority | 526 | 45.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 595 (est) | 15.3 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 3,900 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Augustus Stafford | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | William Cecil | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,800 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Stafford's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Ward Hunt | 1,461 | 56.6 | N/A | |
Whig | Fitzpatrick Vernon[6] | 1,119 | 43.4 | New | |
Majority | 342 | 13.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,580 | 67.9 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 3,800 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Cecil | 1,849 | 36.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | George Ward Hunt | 1,831 | 36.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Fitzpatrick Vernon | 1,344 | 26.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 487 | 9.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,184 (est) | 84.3 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 3,777 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1860s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | George Ward Hunt | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | William Cecil | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,016 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Cecil was appointed Treasurer of the Household, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Cecil | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Cecil succeeded to the peerage, becoming 3rd Marquess of Exeter, causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sackville Stopford | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Hunt was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Ward Hunt | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Ward Hunt | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Sackville Stopford | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 5,310 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1870s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Ward Hunt | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Sackville Stopford-Sackville | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 5,215 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Hunt was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Ward Hunt | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Hunt's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Brownlow Cecil | 2,261 | 60.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | Edmund Wyatt-Edgell[7] | 1,475 | 39.5 | New | |
Majority | 786 | 21.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,736 | 74.2 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 5,033 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1880s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Spencer | 2,425 | 33.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Brownlow Cecil | 2,405 | 33.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Sackville Stopford-Sackville | 2,316 | 32.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 109 | 1.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,830 (est) | 82.8 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 5,833 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Brownlow Cecil | 4,467 | 51.0 | −15.1 | |
Liberal | James Carmichael | 4,296 | 49.0 | +15.1 | |
Majority | 171 | 2.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,763 | 90.0 | +7.2 (est) | ||
Registered electors | 9,741 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −15.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Brownlow Cecil | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Cecil was appointed Groom in Waiting, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Brownlow Cecil | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1890s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Brownlow Cecil | 4,505 | 54.0 | N/A | |
Liberal | John Turner Stockburn | 3,836 | 46.0 | New | |
Majority | 669 | 8.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,341 | 83.4 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 9,999 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Philip Monckton | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1900s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sackville Stopford-Sackville | 4,559 | 58.0 | N/A | |
Liberal | Frederick Barlow | 3,303 | 42.0 | New | |
Majority | 1,256 | 16.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,862 | 77.0 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 10,209 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lib-Lab | George Nicholls | 4,880 | 53.8 | +11.8 | |
Conservative | Sackville Stopford-Sackville | 4,195 | 46.2 | −11.8 | |
Majority | 685 | 7.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,075 | 84.9 | +7.9 | ||
Registered electors | 10,688 | ||||
Lib-Lab gain from Conservative | Swing | +11.8 |
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Henry Brassey | 5,520 | 55.5 | +9.3 | |
Lib-Lab | George Nicholls | 4,429 | 44.5 | −9.3 | |
Majority | 1,091 | 11.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,949 | 92.4 | +7.5 | ||
Conservative gain from Lib-Lab | Swing | +9.3 |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Henry Brassey | 5,272 | 55.5 | 0.0 | |
Liberal | James Rennie Wilkinson | 4,221 | 44.5 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 1,051 | 11.0 | 0.0 | ||
Turnout | 9,493 | 88.2 | −4.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | 0.0 |
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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Unionist: Henry Brassey
- Liberal:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "The statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 & 3 William IV. Cap. XLV: An Act to amend the Representation of the People in England and Wales". London: His Majesty's statute and law printers. 1832. pp. 154–206. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ^ "The statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 48 & 49 Victoria. Ch. 23: Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Schedule 7". London: His Majesty's statute and law printers. 1885. pp. 166–167. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 232. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
- ^ "Staffordshire Advertiser". 17 July 1852. p. 7. Retrieved 11 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "General Intelligence". Coventry Standard. 25 December 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 11 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "The Late Captain Wyatt-Edgell". Aldershot Military Gazette. 2 August 1879. p. 3. Retrieved 13 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
- ^ a b c d e f g The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1896
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916