North Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with North Vancouver-Lonsdale.

North Lonsdale
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
County	Lancashire
1885–1918
Seats	One
Created from	North Lancashire
Replaced by	Lonsdale

North Lonsdale was a parliamentary constituency in north Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the two-seat North Lancashire constituency was replaced and divided by a number of single-seat divisions.

The North Lonsdale Rural District, which was created in 1894, nine years after the constituency was created, was at the time an exclave of Lancashire. The area is now in Cumbria.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [1]	Party [2]
	1885	William George Ainslie	Conservative
	1892	William Smith	Liberal
	1895	Richard Cavendish	Liberal Unionist, later Liberal
	1906	George Haddock	Conservative
1918		constituency abolished

Elections

Decades:

1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s

Elections in the 1880s

Herschell

General election 1885: North Lonsdale ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William George Ainslie	4,166	51.4
	Liberal	Farrer Herschell	3,944	48.6
Majority			222	2.8
Turnout			8,110	88.0
Registered electors			9,219
	Conservative win (new seat)

Ainslie

General election 1886: North Lonsdale ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William George Ainslie	4,063	55.5	+4.1
	Liberal	William Henry Martin-Edmunds [4]	3,263	44.5	−4.1
Majority			800	11.0	+8.2
Turnout			7,326	79.5	−8.5
Registered electors			9,219
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.1

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: North Lonsdale ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Smith	4,203	55.1	+10.6
	Conservative	William Dillworth Crewdson	3,426	44.9	−10.6
Majority			777	10.2	N/A
Turnout			7,629	82.6	+3.1
Registered electors			9,236
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+10.6

General election 1895: North Lonsdale ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Richard Cavendish	4,313	54.4	+9.5
	Liberal	Hugh Halkett	3,610	45.6	−9.5
Majority			703	8.8	N/A
Turnout			7,923	83.8	+1.2
Registered electors			9,458
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+9.5

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: North Lonsdale ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Richard Cavendish	Unopposed
	Liberal Unionist hold

General election 1906: North Lonsdale ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Haddock	4,121	51.1	N/A
	Liberal	Richard Cavendish	3,942	48.9	New
Majority			179	2.2	N/A
Turnout			8,063	82.8	N/A
Registered electors			9,738
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: North Lonsdale ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Haddock	4,329	51.0	−0.1
	Liberal	Joseph Bliss	4,160	49.0	+0.1
Majority			169	2.0	−0.2
Turnout			8,489	87.5	+4.7
Registered electors			9,702
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.1

General election December 1910: North Lonsdale ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Haddock	4,140	50.5	−0.5
	Liberal	Joseph Bliss	4,066	49.5	+0.5
Majority			74	1.0	−1.0
Turnout			8,206	84.6	−2.9
Registered electors			9,702
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.5

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3)
2. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 324. ISBN   0-900178-27-2.
3. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
4. "The Elections" . London Evening Standard . 12 July 1886. p. 5. Retrieved 3 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.