Howdenshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Infobox UK constituency main Howdenshire was a county constituency in Yorkshire 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 voting system.

It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Holme Beacon, Howdenshire, South Hunsley Beacon, Wilton Beacon, and Ouse and Derwent (except the part included in the extended Municipal Borough of York).

1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Hessle and Pocklington, the Rural Districts of Escrick, Howden, Pocklington, and Riccall, in the Rural District of Beverley the civil parishes of Brantingham, Ellerker, Elloughton with Brough, and South Cave, and part of the Rural District of Sculcoates.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1885	Arthur Duncombe	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1892	Sir William Wilson-Todd	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1906	Henry Harrison-Broadley	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1915 by-election	Stanley Jackson	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1926 by-election	William Carver	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1945	Clifford Glossop	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1947 by-election	George Odey	Conservative
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: Howdenshire ^[1]^[2]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Arthur Duncombe	Template:Replace	57.6	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Anthony George Shiell	3,334	42.4
Majority			1,191	15.2	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			7,859	82.7	Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors			9,502		Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1886: Howdenshire ^[3]^[1]
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Elections in the 1890s

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Woodhouse

General election 1892: Howdenshire ^[1]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Wilson-Todd	Template:Replace	52.3	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	James Woodhouse	3,648	47.7	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			350	4.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			7,646	80.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors			9,499		Script error: No such module "String".
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Wilson-Todd

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General election 1895: Howdenshire ^[1]^[4]^[3]
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Elections in the 1900s

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General election 1900: Howdenshire ^[1]^[4]^[3]
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General election 1906: Howdenshire ^[1]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Henry Harrison-Broadley	Template:Replace	53.4	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Percy George Reginald Benson	4,150	46.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			613	6.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			8,913	90.1	Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors			9,893		Script error: No such module "String".
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Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Howdenshire ^[5]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Henry Harrison-Broadley	Template:Replace	56.4	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Francis Benedict Vincent Norris	4,186	43.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			1,237	12.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			9,609	90.7	Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors			10,597		Script error: No such module "String".
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General election December 1910: Howdenshire ^[5]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Henry Harrison-Broadley	Template:Replace	56.4	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Francis Benedict Vincent Norris	3,885	43.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			1,131	12.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			8,901	84.0	Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors			10,597		Script error: No such module "String".
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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: Henry Harrison-Broadley
Liberal: Thomas Fenby

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1915 Howdenshire by-election^[5]^[3]
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Fenby

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Elections in the 1920s

General election 1918: Howdenshire^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Thomas Fenby	4,384	32.7	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			4,639	34.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			13,407	57.1	Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors			23,481		Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1922: Howdenshire ^[6]
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Stanley Jackson	Template:Replace	60.5	Script error: No such module "String".
	National Farmers' Union	Herbert John Winn	7,021	39.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			3,727	21.0	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			17,769	71.1	Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors			24,975		Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1923: Howdenshire ^[6]
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General election 1924: Howdenshire^[6]
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1926 Howdenshire by-election^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Carver	Template:Replace	54.2	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Frederick Linfield	6,668	34.0	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John William Kneeshaw	2,318	11.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			3,985	20.2	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			19,639	73.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors			26,682		Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1929: Howdenshire ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Carver	Template:Replace	51.2	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Edward Baker	13,170	48.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			653	2.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			26,993	76.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors			35,164		Script error: No such module "String".
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Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Howdenshire^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Carver	Template:Replace	*N/A*	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1935: Howdenshire^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Carver	Template:Replace	63.9	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Edward Baker	7,837	27.5	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	James Richardson	2,459	8.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			10,318	36.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			28,451	69.2	Script error: No such module "String".
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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;

Conservative: Clifford Glossop

General election 1945: Howdenshire^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Clifford Glossop	Template:Replace	55.9	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Thomas Neville	11,161	29.2	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John Edward Wilson	5,669	14.9	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			10,187	26.7	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			38,178	71.3	Script error: No such module "String".
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1947 Howdenshire by-election^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	George Odey	Template:Replace	64.0	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Thomas Neville	9,298	25.5	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John Edward Wilson	3,819	10.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			14,046	38.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			36,461		Script error: No such module "String".
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References

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f The Liberal Year Book, 1907
↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
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↑ ^a ^b Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
↑ ^a ^b ^c Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. Template:ISBN.
↑ UK General Election results: July 1945
↑ 1947 By Elections

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[ReferenceB-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f The Liberal Year Book, 1907

[2] Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886

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[ReferenceA-4] Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901

[ReferenceC-5] Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

[Craig,_F._W._S._1983-6] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. Template:ISBN.

[7] UK General Election results: July 1945

[8] 1947 By Elections

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Howdenshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Contents

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Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

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Elections in the 1900s

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Elections in the 1920s

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