Horsham and Worthing (UK Parliament constituency)

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Horsham and Worthing
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
19181945
Seatsone
Created from Horsham, Lewes and Chichester
Replaced by Horsham and Worthing

Horsham and Worthing was a county constituency in West Sussex, centred on the towns of Horsham and Worthing in West Sussex. It 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.

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History

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election. Its territory was then divided between the new constituencies of Worthing and Horsham.

Boundaries

The Borough of Worthing, the Urban Districts of Horsham, Shoreham, and Southwick, and the Rural Districts of Horsham, Steyning West, and Thakeham.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1918 Earl Winterton Conservative
1945 constituency abolished: see Horsham and Worthing

Throughout its existence, the constituency elected the same MP, Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton, who had previously been MP for Horsham. When the Horsham constituency was re-established in 1945, Turnour was re-elected there, and held that seat until he stepped down at the 1951 general election after 47 years in Parliament.

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: Horsham and Worthing [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C Unionist Edward Turnour 15,64486.0
Independent Emmanuel Rodocanachi [3] 2,54414.0
Majority13,10072.0
Turnout 18,18842.2
Registered electors 43,142
Unionist win (new seat)
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Horsham and Worthing [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Edward Turnour Unopposed
Unionist hold
General election 1923: Horsham and Worthing [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Edward Turnour 17,925 66.8 N/A
Labour Ernest Stanford 8,89233.2New
Majority9,03333.6N/A
Turnout 26,81759.0N/A
Registered electors 46,438
Unionist hold Swing N/A
General election 1924: Horsham and Worthing [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Edward Turnour 23,715 75.9 +9.1
Labour Ernest Stanford 7,53724.19.1
Majority16,17851.8+18.2
Turnout 31,25265.7+6.7
Registered electors 47,557
Unionist hold Swing +9.1
General election 1929: Horsham and Worthing [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Edward Turnour 27,872 60.1 15.8
Liberal Percy Boyden10,90523.5New
Labour Helen Keynes 7,61116.47.7
Majority16,96736.615.2
Turnout 46,38866.1+0.4
Registered electors 70,220
Unionist hold Swing 4.1

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Horsham and Worthing [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edward Turnour 44,886 88.33
Labour Helen Keynes 5,93211.67
Majority38,95476.66
Turnout 50,81867.32
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1935: Horsham and Worthing [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edward Turnour 41,478 76.89
Labour Harold William Paton12,46623.11
Majority29,01253.78
Turnout 53,94460.26
Conservative hold 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 and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

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References

  1. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  2. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench
  3. ‘RODOCANACHI, Emmanuel Michel’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 15 Sept 2017
  4. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  5. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  6. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  7. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  8. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  9. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  10. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939