Evesham (UK Parliament constituency)
Evesham | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1295, 1604–1885 | |
Number of members | two until 1868, then one |
Worcestershire, Evesham | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Evesham was a parliamentary constituency in Worcestershire which was represented in the British House of Commons. Originally a parliamentary borough consisting of the town of Evesham, it was first represented in 1295. After this its franchise lapsed for several centuries, but it then returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1604 until 1868, when its representation was reduced to one member under the Representation of the People Act 1867.
From the 1885 general election, Evesham was abolished as a borough but the name was transferred to a larger county constituency electing one MP. This constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, with the town of Evesham itself being transferred to the new seat of South Worcestershire. Between 1885 and 1918 the constituency had the full name of the Southern, or Evesham, Division of Worcestershire (not to be confused with the 1950 seat).
Boundaries
- 1604-1885: The parishes of All Saints, Evesham, St Lawrence, Evesham and Bengeworth
- 1885-1918: The petty sessional divisions of Blockley, Evesham, Pershore and Upton-on-Severn, and parts of the petty sessional divisions of Malvern and Redditch
- 1918-1950: The municipal boroughs of Droitwich and Evesham, the rural districts of Droitwich, Evesham, Feckenham, Pershore and Shipston-on-Stour, the parishes of Bredon, Bredon's Norton, Conderton, Overbury and Teddington from the rural district of Tewkesbury and the parts of the rural districts of Stow on the Wold and Winchcombe within the administrative county of Worcestershire
Members of Parliament
1604-1640
Parliament | First member | Second member |
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1604-1611 | Thomas Biggs | Sir Philip Knightley, died and replaced 1605 by Robert Bowyer, appointed to crown office and replaced 1610 by Edward Salter |
1614-1622 | Sir Thomas Biggs | Anthony Langston |
1621 | Sir Thomas Biggs | Anthony Langston |
1624 | Sir Edward Conway | Richard Cresheld |
1625 | Richard Cresheld | Anthony Langston |
1626 | Sir John Hare | Anthony Langston |
1628 | Sir Robert Harley | Richard Cresheld |
1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned |
1640-1868
Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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April 1640 | William Sandys [1] | Royalist | William Morton | |||
November 1640 | Richard Cresheld | Parliamentarian | ||||
1641 | John Coventry | Royalist | ||||
September 1642 | Coventry disabled from sitting - seat vacant | |||||
1645 | Samuel Gardner | |||||
December 1648 | Cresheld not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | |||||
1653 | Evesham was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
January 1659 | Theophilus Andrews | Robert Atkyns | ||||
May 1659 | Evesham was not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
April 1660 | John Egioke | Sir Thomas Rouse | ||||
1661 | William Sandys | Abraham Cullen | ||||
1669 | Sir John Hanmer | |||||
1670 | Sir James Rushout | |||||
1679 | Henry Parker | |||||
1681 | Edward Rudge | |||||
1685 | Henry Parker | Sir John Matthewes | ||||
1690 | Sir James Rushout | Edward Rudge | ||||
1695 | Henry Parker | |||||
1698 | John Rudge | |||||
January 1701 | Sir James Rushout | |||||
November 1701 | Hugh Parker | |||||
1702 | John Rudge | |||||
1708 | Sir Edward Goodere | |||||
1705 | John Deacle | |||||
1722 | Sir John Rushout | |||||
1734 | William Taylor | |||||
1741 | Edward Rudge | |||||
1754 | John Porter | |||||
1756 | Edward Rudge | |||||
1761 | John Rushout | |||||
1768 | George Durant | |||||
1774 | Henry Seymour | |||||
1780 | Charles Boughton | |||||
1790 | Thomas Thompson | |||||
1796 | Charles Thellusson | |||||
1802 | Patrick Craufurd Bruce | |||||
1806 | William Manning | Humphrey Howorth | ||||
1807 | Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes [2] | Tory | ||||
1808 | Humphrey Howorth | |||||
1818 | William Rouse-Boughton | |||||
1819 | Sir Charles Cockerell | Whig | ||||
1820 | William Rouse-Boughton | |||||
1826 | Edward Davis-Protheroe | |||||
1830 | Lord Kennedy | |||||
1831 | Thomas Hudson | Whig | ||||
1835 | Peter Borthwick [3] | Conservative | ||||
1837 | George Rushout | Conservative | ||||
1838 | Lord Marcus Hill | Whig | ||||
1841 | Peter Borthwick | Conservative | ||||
1847 | Sir Henry Willoughby, Bt | Conservative | ||||
1852 | Grenville Berkeley | Whig | ||||
1855 | Edward Holland | Whig | ||||
1859 | Liberal | |||||
1865 | James Bourne | Conservative |
1868-1950
Election | Member | Party | |
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1868 | James Bourne | Conservative | |
1880 | Daniel Rowlinson Ratcliff | Liberal | |
July 1880 | Frederick Lehmann [4] | Liberal | |
1881 | Frederick Dixon-Hartland | Conservative | |
1885 | Sir Richard Temple | Conservative | |
1892 | Sir Edmund Lechmere | Conservative | |
1895 | Colonel Charles Wigram Long | Conservative | |
January 1910 | Bolton Eyres-Monsell | Conservative | |
1935 | Rupert de la Bere | Conservative | |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Sir Richard Temple | 4,080 | 51.5 | ||
Liberal | 48.5 | n/a | |||
Majority | 3.0 | n/a | |||
Turnout | 83.3 | n/a | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Sir Richard Temple | ||||
Liberal | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Sir Edmund Anthony Harley Lechmere | 4,170 | 53.7 | ||
Liberal | Frederick Impey | 3,590 | 46.3 | ||
Majority | 580 | 7.4 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Charles Wigram Long | 4,760 | 57.0 | +3.3 | |
Liberal | Frederick Impey | 3,585 | 43.0 | -3.3 | |
Majority | 1,175 | 14.0 | +6.6 | ||
Turnout | 84.2 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Charles Wigram Long | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Charles Wigram Long | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Charles Wigram Long | 4,385 | 50.5 | n/a | |
Liberal | A W Biggs | 4,293 | 49.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 92 | 1.0 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 89.0 | n/a | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell | ||||
Liberal | W Burt | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Unionist: Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell
- Liberal: William Pearce Ellis
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | 10,479 | 62.0 | |||
Liberal | William Pearce Ellis | 3,570 | 21.1 | ||
Labour | Walter Metcalfe Fielding | 2,863 | 16.9 | ||
Majority | 6,909 | 40.9 | |||
Turnout | 58.5 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
- endorsed by Coalition Government
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell | 11,502 | 59.9 | -2.1 | |
Labour | Robert Aldington | 7,715 | 40.1 | ||
Majority | 3,787 | 19.8 | |||
Turnout | 65.7 | +7.2 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | Rt Hon. Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell | 10,976 | 54.5 | -5.4 | |
Liberal | William Henry Collett | 5,453 | 27.1 | n/a | |
Labour | Robert Aldington | 3,705 | 18.4 | -21.7 | |
Majority | 5,523 | 27.4 | |||
Turnout | 67.7 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | Rt Hon. Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell | 13,176 | 66.5 | ||
Labour | Robert Aldington | 3,473 | 17.3 | ||
Liberal | Benjamin Ryle Swift | 3,454 | 17.2 | ||
Majority | 9,703 | 48.2 | |||
Turnout | 66.4 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | Rt Hon. Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell | 14,694 | 48.4 | -18.1 | |
Liberal | Selick Davies | 11,519 | 38.0 | +20.8 | |
Labour | Robert Aldington | 4,138 | 13.6 | -3.7 | |
Majority | 3,175 | 10.4 | -37.8 | ||
Turnout | 76.4 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | -19.5 | |||
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Rt Hon. Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
- withdrew
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Rupert de la Bere | 18,757 | 65.1 | n/a | |
Labour | W E Warder | 6,264 | 21.8 | n/a | |
Liberal | Christopher a'Becket Williams | 3,774 | 13.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 12,493 | 43.3 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 66.4 | n/a | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
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 and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Rupert de la Bere
- Liberal: W F Newnes [21]
- British Union: John Dowty
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Rupert de la Bere | 17,835 | 53.4 | ||
Liberal | Duncan McGuffie | 7,849 | 23.5 | ||
Common Wealth | Desmond Louis Donnelly | 7,727 | 23.1 | ||
Majority | 9,986 | 29.9 | |||
Turnout | 63.3 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
References
- ↑ Expelled as a monopolist in 1641
- ↑ On petition, Lopes was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Howorth, was seated in his place
- ↑ Borthwick was re-elected in 1837 but on petition his election was declared void and Hill declared elected in his place. A petition against the other successful candidate, Rushout, was dismissed. Borthwick and Rushout subsequently fought a duel over the outcome of the election.
- ↑ On petition, Lehmann's election was declared void and his opponent Dixon-Hartland was declared elected in his place
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
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- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
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- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ The Liberal Magazine, 1939
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
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