Bridlington (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 54°04′59″N 0°11′31″W / 54.083°N 0.192°W

Bridlington
Former constituency for the House of Commons
County	1950-1974 East Riding of Yorkshire 1974-1996 Humberside 1996-1997 East Riding of Yorkshire
1950–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Beverley and Holderness and East Yorkshire
Created from	Buckrose

Bridlington was a constituency in East Yorkshire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.

It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

History

The constituency was created in 1950 from the former seat of Buckrose. It was abolished in 1997 and most of its territory transferred to the East Yorkshire seat.

Boundaries

1950-1983: The Municipal Boroughs of Bridlington and Hedon, the Urban Districts of Filey, Hornsea, and Withernsea, and the Rural Districts of Bridlington and Holderness.

1983-1997: The Borough of East Yorkshire wards of Bridlington Bessingby, Bridlington Hilderthorpe, Bridlington Old Town East, Bridlington Old Town West, Bridlington Quay North, Bridlington Quay South, Coastal, Driffield North, Driffield South, Hutton Cranswick, Lowland, Nafferton, Roman, St John, and Viking, and the Borough of Holderness.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party
	1950	Richard Wood	Conservative
	1979	John Townend	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Hon. Richard Frederick Wood	26,124	50.9	n/a
	Liberal	George Wadsworth	16,158	31.5	n/a
	Labour	Wilfrid Pashby	9,013	17.6	n/a
Majority			9,966	19.4	n/a
Turnout				81.9	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1951: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Hon. Richard Frederick Wood	30,576	61.09
	Labour	Gerard McQuade	12,931	25.83
	Liberal	Douglas Eugene Moore	6,546	13.08
Majority			17,645	35.25
Turnout				78.38
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Hon. Richard Frederick Wood	25,880	70.92
	Labour	Mrs. Kathleen M Roberts	10,614	29.08
Majority			15,266	41.83
Turnout				69.40
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Hon. Richard Frederick Wood	27,438	73.20
	Labour	Harry Moor	10,047	26.80
Majority			17,391	46.39
Turnout				68.15
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Hon. Richard Frederick Wood	22,729	56.50
	Labour	Joseph Kevin MacNamara	9,002	22.38
	Liberal	John J MacCallum	8,494	21.12
Majority			13,727	34.13
Turnout				72.78
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Hon. Richard Frederick Wood	21,976	54.58
	Labour	John Edward Tomlinson	11,939	29.65
	Liberal	Trevor Silverwood	6,349	15.77
Majority			10,037	24.93
Turnout				71.47
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Hon. Richard Frederick Wood	25,053	58.14
	Labour	Harold A Clarke	11,546	26.79
	Liberal	Trevor Silverwood	6,495	15.07
Majority			13,507	31.34
Turnout				68.64
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Hon. Richard Frederick Wood	25,711	51.21
	Liberal	JMS Cherry	14,715	29.31
	Labour	AAW Dix	9,780	19.48
Majority			10,996	21.90
Turnout				76.91
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Hon. Richard Frederick Wood	21,901	49.07
	Liberal	JMS Cherry	11,795	26.43
	Labour	AAW Dix	9,946	22.29
	National Front	F Day	987	2.21
Majority			10,106	22.64
Turnout				67.87
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Ernest Townend	27,988	54.80
	Labour	PJ Doyle	12,693	24.85
	Liberal	D Horsley	10,390	20.34
Majority			15,295	29.95
Turnout				74.18
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Ernest Townend	31,284	57.79
	Social Democratic	E Martin	14,675	27.11
	Labour	M Craven	7,370	13.61
	Ecology	S Tooke	803	1.48
Majority			16,609	30.68
Turnout				70.56
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Bridlington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Ernest Townend	32,351	54.82
	Social Democratic	Edmund Ian Marshall	15,030	25.47
	Labour	Leonard Maxwell Bird	10,653	18.05
	Green	Richard Douglas Myerscough	983	1.67
Majority			17,321	29.35
Turnout				73.66
	Conservative hold		Swing

Election in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Bridlington^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Ernest Townend	33,604	50.8	−4.0
	Liberal Democrat	John A. Leeman	17,246	26.1	+0.6
	Labour	Steven M. Hatfield	15,263	23.1	+5.0
Majority			16,358	24.7	−4.6
Turnout			66,113	77.8	+4.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.3

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

Notes and references

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)
2. "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.