Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)

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Lonsdale
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
County Lancashire
1918–1950
SeatsOne
Created from Lancaster and North Lonsdale
Replaced by Morecambe and Lonsdale, Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness

Lonsdale was a county constituency in north Lancashire, England. 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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Members of Parliament

YearMemberWhip
1918 Claude Lowther Unionist
1920 Independent Parliamentary Group
1921 Unionist
1922 Nigel Kennedy Unionist
1923 Henry Maden Liberal
1924 Lord Balniel Unionist
1940 Ian Fraser Conservative
1950 constituency abolished

Elections

Election in the 1910s

General election 1918: Lonsdale [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C Unionist Claude Lowther 9,66252.5
Labour David Hunter4,47224.3
Liberal Joseph Bliss 4,27623.2
Majority5,19028.2
Turnout 18,41066.5
Unionist win (new seat)
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Election in the 1920s

General election 1922: Lonsdale [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Nigel Kennedy 12,030 55.1 +2.6
Liberal Henry Maden 5,79026.5+3.3
Labour Thomas Marshall Scott4,02418.4−5.9
Majority6,24028.6+0.4
Turnout 21,84477.3+10.8
Unionist hold Swing -0.4
General election 1923: Lonsdale [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Henry Maden 11,186 52.4 +25.9
Unionist Nigel Kennedy 10,17647.6−7.5
Majority1,0104.8N/A
Turnout 21,36275.4−1.9
Liberal gain from Unionist Swing +16.7
General election 1924: Lonsdale [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist David Lindsay 13,460 57.4 +9.8
Liberal Henry Maden 10,00242.6−−9.8
Majority3,45814.819.6
Turnout 23,46283.3+7.9
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +9.8
General election 1929: Lonsdale [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist David Lindsay 13,612 47.4 −10.0
Liberal Henry Maden 7,80527.2−15.4
Labour Joseph Henderson 7,30325.4New
Majority5,08720.2+5.4
Turnout 28,72082.7−0.6
Unionist hold Swing +2.7

Election in the 1930s

General election 1931: Lonsdale [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Lindsay 17,423 59.6 +12.2
Liberal Henry Maden 11,82140.4+13.2
Majority5,60219.2−1.0
Turnout 29,24483.0+0.3
Conservative hold Swing -0.5
General election 1935: Lonsdale [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Lindsay 16,338 57.0 −2.6
Labour R S Armstrong6,94624.2New
Liberal Henry Maden 5,39118.8−21.6
Majority9,39232.8+13.6
Turnout 28,67579.3−3.7
Conservative hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1940s

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;

1940 Lonsdale by-election [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Fraser Unopposed N/AN/A
Conservative hold
General election 1945: Lonsdale [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Fraser 18,571 58.0 +1.0
Labour Sidney Wright Grundy13,43642.0+17.8
Majority5,13516.0−16.8
Turnout 32,00777.2−2.1
Conservative hold Swing N/A

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig (1983). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN   0-900178-06-X.

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