Middlesbrough East (UK Parliament constituency)

Middlesbrough East
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
CountyNorth Riding of Yorkshire
1918–1974 (1974)
SeatsOne
Created fromMiddlesbrough
Replaced byMiddlesbrough

Middlesbrough East was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Middlesbrough in North East England. 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 voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Boundaries

1918–1950: The County Borough of Middlesbrough wards of Exchange, Grove Hill, Ormesby, St Hilda's, and Vulcan.

1950–1964: The County Borough of Middlesbrough except the wards of Acklam, Ayresome, and Linthorpe.[1]

1964–1974: The County Borough of Middlesbrough wards of Berwick Hills, Cannon, Clairville, Exchange, Grove Hill, Newport, North Ormesby, St Hilda's, Thorntree, and Tollesby.[2]

Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1918 Penry Williams Liberal
1922 John Wesley Brown Unionist
1923 Penry Williams Liberal
1924 Ellen Wilkinson Labour
1931 Ernest Young Liberal
1935 Alfred Edwards Labour
1948 Independent
1949 Conservative
1950 Hilary Marquand Labour
1962 Arthur Bottomley Labour
1974 constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: Middlesbrough East[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal *Penry Williams 8,470 69.2
Labour Frederick William Carey 3,776 30.8
Majority 4,694 38.4
Turnout 12,516 48.4
Liberal win (new seat)

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Middlesbrough East[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist John Wesley Brown 8,885 39.0 New
Labour Martin Connolly 7,607 33.4 +2.6
Liberal Penry Williams 6,295 27.6 −41.6
Majority 1,278 5.6 N/A
Turnout 22,787 78.8 +30.4
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing
General election 1923: Middlesbrough East[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Penry Williams 9,241 40.6 +13.0
Labour Martin Connolly 7,712 33.9 +0.5
Unionist James Reid 5,790 25.5 −13.5
Majority 1,529 6.7 N/A
Turnout 22,743 77.3 −1.5
Liberal gain from Unionist Swing
General election 1924: Middlesbrough East[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ellen Wilkinson 9,574 38.5 +1.6
Unionist John Warde-Aldam 8,647 34.7 +9.2
Liberal Penry Williams 6,688 26.8 −13.8
Majority 927 3.8 N/A
Turnout 24,909 83.7 +6.4
Labour gain from Liberal Swing
General election 1929: Middlesbrough East[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ellen Wilkinson 12,215 41.3 +2.8
Liberal Ernest Young 9,016 30.6 +3.8
Unionist John Wesley Brown 8,278 28.1 −6.6
Majority 3,199 10.7 +6.9
Turnout 29,509 80.8 −2.9
Labour hold Swing -0.5

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Middlesbrough East[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ernest Young 18,409 60.4 +29.8
Labour Ellen Wilkinson 12,080 39.6 −1.7
Majority 6,329 20.8 N/A
Turnout 30,489 84.5 +3.7
Liberal gain from Labour Swing
General election 1935: Middlesbrough East[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alfred Edwards 12,699 44.0 +4.4
Conservative Benjamin Chetwynd-Talbot 12,632 43.7 New
Liberal Ernest Young 3,565 12.3 −48.1
Majority 67 0.3 N/A
Turnout 25,331 81.14 −3.4
Labour gain from Liberal Swing

Elections in the 1940s

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;

General election 1945: Middlesbrough East[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alfred Edwards 17,427 65.1 +21.1
Conservative Benjamin Chetwynd-Talbot 9,352 34.9 −8.8
Majority 8,075 30.2 +29.9
Turnout 26,779 76.7 −4.4
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Middlesbrough East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hilary Marquand 29,185 62.77
Conservative Alfred Edwards 12,402 26.67
Liberal Russell Thomas 4,540 9.76 New
Communist N Levy 367 0.79 New
Majority 16,783 36.10
Turnout 46,494 82.90
Labour hold Swing
General election 1951: Middlesbrough East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hilary Marquand 31,277 66.51
Conservative Ralph Meredyth Turton 15,749 33.49
Majority 15,528 33.02
Turnout 47,026 80.93
Labour hold Swing
General election 1955: Middlesbrough East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hilary Marquand 27,036 62.42
Conservative Bernard A Connelly 16,278 37.58
Majority 10,758 24.84
Turnout 43,314 72.72
Labour hold Swing
General election 1959: Middlesbrough East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hilary Marquand 29,391 61.54
Conservative Derek R Chapman 18,365 38.46
Majority 11,026 23.08
Turnout 47,756 76.21
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

1962 Middlesbrough East by-election[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur Bottomley 18,928 60.60 −0.94
Liberal George Scott 7,145 22.87 New
Conservative Frederick A. S. Wood 4,613 14.77 −23.69
Union Movement Jeffrey Hamm 550 1.76 New
Majority 11,783 37.73 +14.65
Turnout 31,236 52.1 −24.1
Labour hold Swing
General election 1964: Middlesbrough East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur Bottomley 29,432 69.50
Conservative Frederick A. S. Wood 12,917 30.50
Majority 16,515 39.00
Turnout 42,349 72.94
Labour hold Swing
General election 1966: Middlesbrough East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur Bottomley 28,404 75.10
Conservative Peter Darby 9,420 24.90
Majority 18,984 50.20
Turnout 37,824 68.27
Labour hold Swing

Election in the 1970s

General election 1970: Middlesbrough East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur Bottomley 23,581 71.02
Conservative Nigel Neville Laville 9,623 29.98
Majority 13,958 42.04
Turnout 33,204 60.35
Labour hold Swing

References

  1. ^ "Representation of the People Act 1948: Schedule 1", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1948 c. 65 (sch. 1), retrieved 27 October 2023
  2. ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (Gateshead) Order 1955. SI 1960/451". Statutory Instruments 1960. Part III. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1961. pp. 2856–2857.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
  4. ^ The Times House of Commons, 1964