Portsmouth Central | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Hampshire |
Major settlements | Portsmouth |
1918–1950 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Portsmouth South, Portsmouth West and Portsmouth Langstone |
Created from | Portsmouth |
Portsmouth Central was a borough constituency in Portsmouth. 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.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, when the Representation of the People Act 1918 divided the two-member Portsmouth constituency into three new constituencies; North, South and Central. It was abolished for the 1950 general election.
The County Borough of Portsmouth wards of Buckland, Fratton, Kingston, St Mary, and Town Hall.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Sir Thomas Bramsdon | Liberal | |
1922 | Frank Privett | Conservative | |
1923 | Sir Thomas Bramsdon | Liberal | |
1924 | Harry Foster | Conservative | |
1929 | Glenvil Hall | Labour | |
1931 | Ralph Beaumont | Conservative | |
1945 | Julian Snow | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Thomas Bramsdon | 10,929 | 52.2 | ||
C | Unionist | William Dupree | 6,008 | 28.7 | |
Labour | Hugh Hinshelwood | 4,004 | 19.1 | ||
Majority | 4,921 | 23.5 | |||
Turnout | 20,941 | 58.2 | |||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Frank Privett | 7,666 | 26.9 | -1.8 | |
National Liberal | Thomas Fisher | 7,659 | 26.8 | New | |
Liberal | Thomas Bramsdon | 7,129 | 24.9 | -27.3 | |
Labour | Arthur Gourd | 6,126 | 21.4 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 7 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,580 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Thomas Bramsdon | 11,493 | 38.7 | +13.8 | |
Unionist | Frank Privett | 10,231 | 34.4 | +7.5 | |
Labour | Frank Crozier | 7,991 | 26.9 | +5.5 | |
Majority | 1,262 | 4.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 29,715 | 78.2 | |||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +3.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Harry Foster | 14,028 | 46.1 | +11.7 | |
Labour | Glenvil Hall | 10,525 | 34.5 | +7.6 | |
Liberal | Frank Gray | 5,926 | 19.4 | -19.3 | |
Majority | 3,503 | 11.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 30,479 | 80.3 | +2.1 | ||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Glenvil Hall | 15,153 | 42.4 | +7.9 | |
Unionist | Thomas Comyn-Platt | 13,628 | 38.1 | -8.0 | |
Liberal | Charles Cohen | 6,993 | 19.5 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 1,525 | 4.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 35,774 | 74.3 | -6.0 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +7.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ralph Beaumont | 24,623 | 62.9 | +24.8 | |
Labour | Glenvil Hall | 14,512 | 37.1 | -5.3 | |
Majority | 10,111 | 25.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 39,135 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ralph Beaumont | 21,578 | 60.0 | -2.9 | |
Labour | David Freeman | 10,733 | 29.9 | -7.2 | |
Liberal | Ernest James Thornley | 3,612 | 10.1 | New | |
Majority | 10,845 | 30.1 | +5.3 | ||
Turnout | 35,923 | 71.1 | |||
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 from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Julian Snow | 14,745 | 55.3 | +25.4 | |
Conservative | Ralph Beaumont | 11,345 | 42.6 | -17.4 | |
Democratic | Walter R C Foster | 561 | 2.1 | New | |
Majority | 3,400 | 12.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 26,651 | 73.5 | +2.4 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +21.4 | |||
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