Cleveland and Whitby (UK Parliament constituency)

Cleveland and Whitby
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
February 1974–1983
Seats	One
Created from	Cleveland, Scarborough & Whitby
Replaced by	Langbaurgh, Scarborough

Cleveland and Whitby was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Whitby in northern England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from February 1974 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

Cleveland and Whitby largely replaced the previous Cleveland constituency. It was defined as covering the urban districts of Guisborough, Loftus, Saltburn and Marske by the Sea, Skelton and Brotton, Whitby, along with Whitby Rural District.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [1]	Party
	Feb 1974	Leon Brittan	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Cleveland and Whitby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leon Brittan	26,735	51.00
	Labour	Ben Pimlott	19,818	36.80
	Liberal	Michael Ford Pitts	5,870	11.20
Majority			6,917	13.20
Turnout			52,423	80.05
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election October 1974: Cleveland and Whitby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leon Brittan	19,973	43.22
	Labour	Ben Pimlott	18,445	39.91
	Liberal	GG Watson	7,795	16.87
Majority			1,528	3.33
Turnout			46,203	76.17
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election February 1974: Cleveland and Whitby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leon Brittan	21,090	42.55
	Labour	JB Hewitson	17,448	35.20
	Liberal	GG Watson	11,030	22.25
Majority			3,642	7.35
Turnout			49,568	82.38
	Conservative win (new seat)

Notes and references

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)