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Louth, Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1983
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1983
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Louth |
| type | County |
| parliament | uk |
| year | 1885 |
| abolished | 1983 |
| elects_howmany | one |
| previous | North Lincolnshire |
| next | Brigg and Cleethorpes and East Lindsey |
For other parliamentary constituencies called Louth, see Louth (disambiguation)
|}} Louth was a county constituency in Lincolnshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
It should not be confused with the former Irish constituency of County Louth (UK Parliament constituency). Between 1885 and 1918, its formal name was The East Lindsey (or Louth) Division of Lincolnshire, and it was sometimes referred to simply as East Lindsey.
Boundaries
1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Louth, Market Rasen, and Wragby, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Alford, Grimsby, and Horncastle.
1918–1950: The Borough of Louth, the Urban Districts of Mablethorpe and Market Rasen, and the Rural Districts of Caistor, Grimsby, and Louth.
1950–1974: The Boroughs of Louth and Cleethorpes, and the Rural Districts of Grimsby and Louth.
1974–1983: As prior but with redrawn boundaries.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [1885](1885-united-kingdom-general-election) | Francis Otter | ||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [1886](1886-united-kingdom-general-election) | Arthur Raymond Heath | ||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [1892](1892-united-kingdom-general-election) | Sir Robert Perks, 1st Baronet | ||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | January 1910 | Langton Brackenbury | ||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | December 1910 | Timothy Davies | ||
| Coalition Conservative}}" | [1918](1918-united-kingdom-general-election) | Langton Brackenbury | ||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [1920 by-election](1920-louth-by-election) | Thomas Wintringham | ||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [1921 by-election](1921-louth-by-election) | Margaret Wintringham | ||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [1924](1924-united-kingdom-general-election) | Arthur Heneage | ||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [1945](1945-united-kingdom-general-election) | Sir Cyril Osborne | ||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [1969 by-election](1969-louth-by-election) | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Oct 1974 | Michael Brotherton | ||
| [1983](1983-united-kingdom-general-election) | *constituency abolished* |
Election results
Elections in the 1880s
|reg. electors = 10,252
Elections in the 1890s
|reg. electors = 9,829 |reg. electors = 10,863
Elections in the 1900s
|reg. electors = 9,621 |reg. electors = 10,075
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1914–15
A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the autumn of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place.
- Liberal: Timothy Davies
- Unionist: Langton Brackenbury
Elections in the 1920s
- endorsed by Coalition Government
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1939–40
A General Election was due to take place by the spring of 1940. By the autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place.
- Conservative: Arthur Heneage
- Liberal: Alan Pryce-Jones
- Labour: Jack H Franklin
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
References
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
References
- Liberal Year Book 1908
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
- ‘HUTCHINGS, Sir Alan’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U238973, accessed 16 Oct 2017]
- The Liberal Magazine 1939
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