Cambridgeshire is a former Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. It was a constituency represented by two Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then in the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832, when its representation was increased to three until it was abolished in 1885.
Cambridgeshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1290–1885 | |
Seats | 2 (1290 – 1832) 3 (1832 – 1885) |
Replaced by | Chesterton Newmarket Wisbech |
1918–1983 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Chesterton Newmarket |
Replaced by | SE Cambridgeshire SW Cambridgeshire |
It was reconstituted as a single-member seat in 1918 and abolished once again in 1983.
The county was represented by two Knights of the Shire until 1832, when the number of members was increased to three by the Great Reform Act. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the constituency was abolished and was divided into three single-member constituencies: the Western or Chesterton Division, the Eastern or Newmarket Division and the Northern or Wisbech Division.
Under the Local Government Act 1888, the historic county of Cambridgeshire was divided between the administrative counties of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. When the parliamentary constituencies were next redistributed under the Representation of the People Act 1918, Cambridgeshire was re-constituted as a single-member Parliamentary County, largely formed from combining the Chesterton Division (excluding areas that were now part of the expanded Municipal Borough of Cambridge) and the Newmarket Division (excluding the city of Ely which was included in the Parliamentary County of Isle of Ely).
The administrative counties of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely had been recombined in 1965 and Cambridgeshire was further expanded in 1974 to include Huntingdon and Peterborough under the Local Government Act 1972. Under the subsequent redistribution of seats, which did not come into effect until the 1983 general election, Cambridgeshire was abolished as a county constituency, forming the bulk of the new constituency of South East Cambridgeshire and the majority of South West Cambridgeshire.
1290–1653, 1658-1885: The historic county of Cambridgeshire. (Although Cambridgeshire contained the borough of Cambridge, which elected two MPs in its own right, this was not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election. In the elections of 1830 and 1831, about an eighth of the votes cast for the county came from within Cambridge itself. The city of Ely also elected its own MPs in 1295.)
1654–1658: The historic county was divided for the First and the Second Protectorate Parliaments, between the two-member Isle of Ely area and the four-member constituency consisting of the rest of the county.
There were minor boundary changes in 1950, when some of the constituency was transferred to the Cambridge seat, which was expanded to align with the Municipal Borough, and in 1974, to align with changes to the county boundary.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) |
Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party |
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Apr 1640 | Sir Dudley North | Sir John Cutts | ||
Nov 1640 | Sir Dudley North | Parliamentarian | Thomas Chicheley | Royalist |
Chicheley disabled 16 September 1642 replaced 1645 by Francis Russell. North secluded 1648 |
Year | First member | Second member | Third member | Fourth member |
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1653 | John Sadler | Thomas French | Robert Castle | Samuel Warner |
1654 | John Delbrow | Henry Pickering | Robert Castle | Francis Russell |
1656 | Robert West | Henry Pickering | Robert Castle | Francis Russell |
1659 | Sir Thomas Willys, 1st Baronet | Sir Henry Pickering |
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | Third member | Third party | |||
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1832 | Richard Greaves Townley | Whig[12][13][14] | Charles Yorke | Tory[12] | John Walbanke-Childers | Whig[12][13] | |||
1834 | Conservative[12] | ||||||||
1835 | Eliot Yorke | Conservative[12] | Richard Jefferson Eaton | Conservative[12] | |||||
1841 | John Peter Allix | Conservative[12] | |||||||
1847 | Richard Greaves Townley | Whig[12][13][14] | Lord George Manners | Conservative | |||||
1852 | Edward Ball | Conservative | |||||||
1857 | Henry John Adeane | Whig[15][16] | |||||||
1859 | Liberal | ||||||||
1863 by-election | Lord George Manners | Conservative | |||||||
1865 | Viscount Royston | Conservative | Richard Young | Liberal | |||||
1868 | Hon. Sir Henry Brand | Liberal | |||||||
January 1874 by-election | Hon. Eliot Yorke | Conservative | |||||||
October 1874 by-election | Benjamin Rodwell | Conservative | |||||||
1879 by-election | Edward Hicks | Conservative | |||||||
1881 by-election | James Redfoord Bulwer | Conservative | |||||||
1884 by-election | Arthur Thornhill | Conservative | |||||||
1885 | Constituency abolished, Chesterton, Newmarket and Wisbech from 1885 |
Election | Member | Party | |
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Chesterton and Newmarket prior to 1918 | |||
1918 | Hon. Edwin Samuel Montagu | Liberal | |
1922 | Harold Stannus Gray | Unionist | |
1923 | Richard Briscoe | Unionist | |
1945 | A. E. Stubbs | Labour | |
1950 | Gerald Howard | Conservative | |
1961 by-election | Francis Pym | Conservative | |
1983 | Constituency abolished, SE Cambs and SW Cambs from 1983 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Francis Pym | 41,218 | 56.5 | +9.0 | |
Labour | R Collins | 17,929 | 24.6 | −3.2 | |
Liberal | Stephen Ronald Jakobi | 13,780 | 18.9 | −5.8 | |
Majority | 23,289 | 31.9 | +12.2 | ||
Turnout | 72,927 | 78.3 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Francis Pym | 30,508 | 47.5 | +0.4 | |
Labour | Michael Peter Farley | 17,853 | 27.8 | +2.0 | |
Liberal | Stephen Ronald Jakobi | 15,841 | 24.7 | −2.4 | |
Majority | 12,655 | 19.7 | −0.3 | ||
Turnout | 64,202 | 76.0 | −6.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Francis Pym | 32,638 | 47.1 | −7.5 | |
Liberal | Stephen Ronald Jakobi | 18,826 | 27.1 | +15.5 | |
Labour | Michael Peter Farley | 17,930 | 25.8 | −8.0 | |
Majority | 13,812 | 20.0 | −0.8 | ||
Turnout | 69,394 | 82.8 | +7.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −11.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Francis Pym | 32,264 | 54.6 | +6.9 | |
Labour | John Noel Hughes | 19,993 | 33.8 | −4.2 | |
Liberal | Morag Brown | 6,861 | 11.6 | −2.7 | |
Majority | 12,271 | 20.8 | +11.1 | ||
Turnout | 59,118 | 75.5 | −3.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Francis Pym | 25,600 | 47.7 | −0.3 | |
Labour | John Noel Hughes | 20,433 | 38.0 | +4.0 | |
Liberal | John Roderic Charles Beale | 7,698 | 14.3 | −3.7 | |
Majority | 5,167 | 9.7 | −4.3 | ||
Turnout | 53,731 | 79.2 | −0.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Francis Pym | 24,883 | 48.0 | −9.9 | |
Labour | Evan Rutherford | 17,636 | 34.0 | −8.1 | |
Liberal | Richard Moore | 9,347 | 18.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,247 | 14.0 | −1.8 | ||
Turnout | 51,866 | 79.8 | +1.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Francis Pym | 17,643 | 45.9 | −12.0 | |
Labour | Robert Davies | 11,566 | 30.1 | −12.0 | |
Liberal | Richard Moore | 9,219 | 24.0 | New | |
Majority | 6,077 | 15.8 | 0.0 | ||
Turnout | 38,428 | 62.4 | −15.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | 0.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Gerald Howard | 27,407 | 57.9 | +3.6 | |
Labour | William Royle | 19,928 | 42.1 | −3.6 | |
Majority | 7,479 | 15.8 | +7.2 | ||
Turnout | 47,335 | 78.0 | −0.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Gerald Howard | 25,025 | 54.3 | +0.5 | |
Labour | Henry Walston | 21,051 | 45.7 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 3,974 | 8.6 | +1.0 | ||
Turnout | 46,076 | 78.9 | −2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Gerald Howard | 25,095 | 53.8 | +7.5 | |
Labour | Henry Walston | 21,558 | 46.2 | +5.9 | |
Majority | 3,537 | 7.6 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 46,653 | 81.2 | −2.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Gerald Howard | 21,846 | 46.3 | +4.1 | |
Labour | A. E. Stubbs | 19,046 | 40.3 | −2.0 | |
Liberal | Richard Thomas Howlett | 6,348 | 13.4 | −2.1 | |
Majority | 2,800 | 6.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,240 | 83.4 | +13.5 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +3.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | A. E. Stubbs | 18,714 | 42.3 | +10.3 | |
Conservative | Gerald Howard | 18,670 | 42.2 | −11.2 | |
Liberal | Lionel Edward Goodman | 6,867 | 15.5 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 44 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 44,251 | 69.9 | +2.1 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +10.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Briscoe | 19,087 | 53.4 | −14.9 | |
Labour | John Rotherford Bellerby | 11,437 | 32.0 | +0.3 | |
Liberal | John William Payne | 5,223 | 14.6 | New | |
Majority | 7,650 | 21.4 | −15.2 | ||
Turnout | 35,747 | 67.8 | −2.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −7.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Briscoe | 23,742 | 68.3 | +30.7 | |
Labour | Geoffrey Garratt | 11,013 | 31.7 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 12,729 | 36.6 | +30.7 | ||
Turnout | 34,755 | 70.5 | −4.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +30.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Richard Briscoe | 13,306 | 37.6 | −21.4 | |
Labour | Geoffrey Garratt | 11,256 | 31.7 | −9.3 | |
Liberal | John William Payne | 10,904 | 30.7 | New | |
Majority | 2,050 | 5.9 | −12.1 | ||
Turnout | 35,466 | 74.7 | +4.8 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | −6.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Richard Briscoe | 15,530 | 59.0 | +15.4 | |
Labour | Geoffrey Garratt | 10,781 | 41.0 | +9.2 | |
Majority | 4,749 | 18.0 | +6.2 | ||
Turnout | 26,311 | 69.9 | −2.6 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | +3.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Richard Briscoe | 11,710 | 43.6 | +5.6 | |
Labour | A. E. Stubbs | 8,554 | 31.8 | −3.5 | |
Liberal | Elsbeth Dimsdale | 6,619 | 24.6 | −2.1 | |
Majority | 3,156 | 11.8 | +9.1 | ||
Turnout | 26,883 | 72.5 | +1.7 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | +4.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Harold Stannus Gray | 9,846 | 38.0 | New | |
Labour | A. E. Stubbs | 9,167 | 35.3 | +0.4 | |
National Liberal | Edwin Montagu | 6,942 | 26.7 | −38.4 | |
Majority | 679 | 2.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 25,955 | 70.8 | +19.5 | ||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +38.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Liberal | Edwin Montagu | 12,497 | 65.1 | |
Independent Labour | A. E. Stubbs | 6,686 | 34.9 | ||
Majority | 5,811 | 30.2 | |||
Turnout | 19,183 | 51.3 | |||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Thornhill | 3,915 | 58.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | Thomas Coote[22] | 2,812 | 41.8 | New | |
Majority | 1,103 | 16.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 6,727 | 67.2 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 10,003 | ||||
Conservative gain from Speaker |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Redfoord Bulwer | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Speaker (Liberal) | Henry Brand | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Edward Hicks | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Benjamin Rodwell | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 10,023 | ||||
Speaker hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Hicks | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Benjamin Rodwell | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Speaker (Liberal) | Henry Brand | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | George Manners | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Elliot Yorke | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 10,104 | ||||
Speaker hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Elliot Yorke | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Manners | 3,998 | 27.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Charles Yorke | 3,874 | 26.8 | N/A | |
Liberal | Henry Brand | 3,300 | 22.8 | N/A | |
Liberal | Richard Young | 3,290 | 22.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 574 | 4.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,231 (est) | 76.0 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 9,512 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Charles Yorke | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Manners | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Charles Yorke | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Richard Young | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,060 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Manners | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Ball | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Eliot Yorke | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Henry John Adeane | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,157 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Ball | 2,780 | 27.8 | N/A | |
Whig | Henry John Adeane | 2,616 | 26.1 | New | |
Conservative | Eliot Yorke | 2,483 | 24.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | George Manners | 2,127 | 21.3 | N/A | |
Turnout | 5,079 (est) | 80.6 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 6,298 | ||||
Majority | 164 | 1.7 | N/A | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Majority | 489 | 4.8 | N/A | ||
Whig gain from Conservative | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Ball | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Eliot Yorke | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | George Manners | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 6,989 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Whig |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Manners | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Eliot Yorke | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Richard Greaves Townley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,175 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Whig gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Jefferson Eaton | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Eliot Yorke | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | John Peter Allix | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,400 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Whig |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Eliot Yorke | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Richard Jefferson Eaton | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Richard Greaves Townley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,100 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Eliot Yorke | 3,871 | 29.4 | +14.8 | |
Conservative | Richard Jefferson Eaton | 3,261 | 24.7 | +10.1 | |
Whig | Richard Greaves Townley | 3,070 | 23.3 | −12.1 | |
Whig | John Walbanke-Childers | 2,979 | 22.6 | −12.8 | |
Turnout | 6,469 | 96.4 | +4.4 | ||
Registered electors | 6,710 | ||||
Majority | 191 | 1.4 | −2.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +13.6 | |||
Conservative gain from Whig | Swing | +11.3 | |||
Majority | 91 | 0.7 | +0.6 | ||
Whig hold | Swing | −12.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Tory | Charles Yorke | 3,693 | 29.2 | ||
Whig | Richard Greaves Townley | 3,261 | 25.7 | ||
Whig | John Walbanke-Childers | 2,862 | 22.6 | ||
Whig | Henry John Adeane | 2,850 | 22.5 | ||
Turnout | 5,923 | 92.0 | |||
Registered electors | 6,435 | ||||
Majority | 432 | 3.5 | |||
Tory win (new seat) | |||||
Majority | 12 | 0.1 | |||
Whig hold | |||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Richard Greaves Townley | 1,981 | 57.8 | ||
Tory | Charles Yorke | 1,445 | 42.2 | ||
Majority | 536 | 15.6 | |||
Turnout | 3,426 | c. 85.7 | |||
Registered electors | c. 4,000 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Francis Osborne | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Henry John Adeane | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | c. 4,000 | ||||
Whig hold | |||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Francis Osborne | 2,339 | 37.8 | ||
Whig | Henry John Adeane | 2,086 | 33.7 | ||
Tory | Charles Manners | 1,757 | 28.4 | ||
Majority | 329 | 5.3 | |||
Turnout | 3,717 | c. 92.9 | |||
Registered electors | c. 4,000 | ||||
Whig hold | Swing | ||||
Whig gain from Tory | Swing |
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