New Forest and Christchurch (UK Parliament constituency)

New Forest and Christchurch
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Seats	one
Created from	New Forest and Bournemouth
Replaced by	New Forest and Bournemouth East and Christchurch

New Forest and Christchurch was a county constituency in Hampshire which elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1918 general election, partially replacing the previous New Forest constituency, and was abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was partially replaced by a recreated New Forest constituency.

Boundaries

The Boroughs of Christchurch, Lymington, and Romsey, and the Rural Districts of Christchurch, Fordingbridge, Lymington, New Forest, Ringwood, and Romsey.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1918	Walter Frank Perkins	Conservative
	1922	Wilfrid Ashley	Conservative	Resigned January 1932 on being raised to the peerage
	1932 by-election	John Mills	Conservative
	1945	Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre	Conservative	Subsequently, MP for New Forest
	1950	constituency abolished: see New Forest & Bournemouth East and Christchurch

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: New Forest and Christchurch ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Walter Frank Perkins	Unopposed
	Unionist hold
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: New Forest and Christchurch ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Wilfrid Ashley	Unopposed
	Unionist hold

General election 1923: New Forest and Christchurch ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Wilfrid Ashley	13,900	53.9	N/A
	Liberal	Alexander Boulton	11,889	46.1	New
Majority			2,011	7.8	N/A
Turnout			25,789	68.8	N/A
Registered electors			37,475
	Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1924: New Forest and Christchurch ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Wilfrid Ashley	17,945	64.6	+10.7
	Liberal	Alexander Boulton	6,681	24.1	−22.0
	Labour	C Lincoln Brighton	3,137	11.3	New
Majority			11,264	40.5	+32.7
Turnout			27,763	71.4	+2.6
Registered electors			38,905
	Unionist hold		Swing	+16.4

General election 1929: New Forest and Christchurch ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Wilfrid Ashley	22,122	55.5	−9.1
	Liberal	Marcus Cheke	11,520	28.9	+4.8
	Labour	G W Austin	6,206	15.6	+4.3
Majority			10,602	26.6	−13.9
Turnout			39,848	72.6	+1.2
Registered electors			53,884
	Unionist hold		Swing	−7.0

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: New Forest and Christchurch ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Wilfrid Ashley	35,544	83.3	+27.8
	Labour	Frank Stainer	7,130	16.7	+1.1
Majority			28,414	66.6	+40.0
Turnout			47,067	71.9	−0.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

1932 New Forest and Christchurch by-election ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Mills	23,327	82.0	−1.3
	Ind. Labour Party	C. A. Smith	5,135	18.0	New
Majority			18,192	64.0	−2.6
Turnout			28,462	48.0	−23.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1935: New Forest and Christchurch ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Mills	32,209	74.8	−8.5
	Labour	CM Wadham	10,876	25.2	+8.5
Majority			21,333	49.6	−17.0
Turnout			43,085	64.5	−7.4
	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;

• Conservative: John Mills
• Liberal: H J Dey ^[9]
• Labour: RE Gray ^[10]

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: New Forest and Christchurch ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre	31,888	50.9	−23.9
	Labour	Horace King	22,478	35.9	+10.7
	Independent Liberal	John W Howlett	8,299	13.2	New
Majority			9,410	15.0	−34.6
Turnout			62,665	71.3	+6.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

1. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
2. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
3. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
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. Craig, F.W.S., ed. (1969). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 . Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p.  366. ISBN   0-900178-01-9.
8. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
9. The Liberal Magazine, 1939
10. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
11. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

• "UK General Elections since 1832". Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 (2nd ed.). Aldershot. ISBN   0-900178-26-4.