North Cumberland (also "Cumberland Northern")[1][2] was a parliamentary constituency in Cumberland which 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 of election.
North Cumberland | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Eskdale and Penrith |
Replaced by | Penrith and The Border |
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
The Urban Districts of Holme Cultram and Wigton, the Rural Districts of Brampton, Carlisle, and Longtown, and part of the Rural District of Wigton. (Carlisle, Brampton and Longtown rural districts merged in 1930 into the Border Rural District)
Year | Member | Whip | |
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1918 | Christopher Lowther | Unionist | |
1921 | Independent Parliamentary Group | ||
1922 | Donald Howard | Unionist | |
1926 | Sir Fergus Graham | Unionist | |
1935 | Wilfrid Roberts | Liberal | |
1950 | Constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Christopher Lowther | Unopposed | ||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Donald Howard | 8,815 | 50.8 | N/A | |
Liberal | Geoffrey Howard | 8,544 | 49.2 | New | |
Majority | 271 | 1.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 17,359 | 79.9 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 21,714 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Donald Howard | 9,288 | 50.6 | −0.2 | |
Liberal | Richard Durning Holt | 9,070 | 49.4 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 218 | 1.2 | −0.4 | ||
Turnout | 18,358 | 83.2 | +3.3 | ||
Registered electors | 22,075 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −0.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Donald Howard | 10,586 | 54.2 | +3.6 | |
Liberal | Richard Durning Holt | 6,821 | 34.9 | −14.5 | |
Labour | B. Brooke | 2,125 | 10.9 | New | |
Majority | 3,765 | 19.3 | +18.1 | ||
Turnout | 19,532 | 86.0 | +2.8 | ||
Registered electors | 22,717 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +9.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Fergus Graham | 8,867 | 47.8 | −6.4 | |
Liberal | Richard Durning Holt | 6,871 | 37.1 | +2.2 | |
Labour | H. W. McIntyre | 2,793 | 15.1 | +4.2 | |
Majority | 1,996 | 10.7 | −8.6 | ||
Turnout | 18,331 | 82.0 | −4.0 | ||
Registered electors | 22,607 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −4.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Fergus Graham | 10,392 | 44.9 | −9.3 | |
Liberal | Richard Durning Holt | 9,661 | 41.7 | +6.8 | |
Labour | C. A. O'Donnell | 3,092 | 13.4 | +2.5 | |
Majority | 731 | 3.2 | −16.1 | ||
Turnout | 23,145 | 83.7 | −2.3 | ||
Registered electors | 27,653 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −8.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Fergus Graham | 12,504 | 52.7 | +7.8 | |
Liberal | Wilfrid Roberts | 11,227 | 47.3 | +5.6 | |
Majority | 1,277 | 5.4 | +2.2 | ||
Turnout | 23,781 | 84.6 | +0.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Wilfrid Roberts | 12,521 | 51.9 | −0.8 | |
Conservative | Fergus Graham | 11,627 | 48.1 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 894 | 3.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,148 | 83.9 | −0.7 | ||
Liberal gain from Conservative | 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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Liberal | Wilfrid Roberts | 12,053 | 50.4 | −1.5 | |
Conservative | Ronald Nicholson Carr | 11,855 | 49.6 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 198 | 0.83 | −3.0 | ||
Turnout | 23,908 | 75.7 | −8.2 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |