Rye (UK Parliament constituency)
Rye | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | East Sussex |
Major settlements | Rye |
1955–1983 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Hastings and Rye, Bexhill and Battle |
Created from | Hastings |
1885–1950 | |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Replaced by | Hastings |
1366–1885 | |
Number of members | 1366–1640: One 1640–1832: Two 1832–1885: One |
Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
Rye was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Rye in East Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was halved under the Reform Act 1832.
From the 1832 general election, Rye returned one Member of Parliament until its abolition for the 1950 general election, when the town of Rye itself was transferred to the redrawn Hastings constituency where it remained until 1955 when it returned to the re-created Rye seat.
The constituency was re-created for the 1955 general election, and abolished again for the 1983 general election.
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Municipal Boroughs of Rye and Hastings, the Sessional Divisions of Rye, Battle, Burwash, Frant, and Hastings, the ancient town of Winchelsea, and the Liberty of the Sluice and Petit Iham.
1918-1950: The Municipal Boroughs of Rye and Bexhill, the Urban District of Battle, the Rural Districts of Battle, Hastings, Rye, and Ticehurst, and the part of the Rural District of Hailsham which was not included in the Eastbourne constituency.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1366–1640
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MPs 1640–1832
MPs 1832–1950
MPs 1955–1983
Election | Member | Party | |
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1955 | Bryant Godman Irvine | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Montagu Brookfield | 4,526 | |||
Liberal | Frederick Andrew Inderwick | 4,303 | |||
Majority | 223 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Montagu Brookfield | 4,592 | |||
Liberal | G J de Reuter | 3,094 | |||
Majority | 1,498 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Montagu Brookfield | 4,699 | |||
Liberal | G M Ball | 3,988 | |||
Majority | 711 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Montagu Brookfield | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Montagu Brookfield | 5,376 | 65.1 | n/a | |
Liberal | Charles Frederick Hutchinson | 2,887 | 34.9 | n/a | |
Majority | 2,489 | n/a | |||
Turnout | n/a | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Frederick Hutchinson | 4,910 | 52.9 | ||
Conservative | Edward Gurney Boyle | 4,376 | 47.1 | ||
Majority | 534 | 5.8 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Loyd Courthope | 6,122 | |||
Liberal | Charles Frederick Hutchinson | 4,964 | |||
Majority | 1,158 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | George Loyd Courthope | 7,352 | |||
Liberal | St John Hutchinson | 4,750 | |||
Majority | 2,602 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Loyd Courthope | 6,673 | |||
Liberal | St John Hutchinson | 4,461 | |||
Majority | 2,212 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | 10,378 | ||||
Liberal | George Ellis | 4,034 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
- candidate endorsed by the Coalition Government
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | George Loyd Courthope | 10,922 | |||
Liberal | George Ellis | 7,485 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | George Loyd Courthope | 11,167 | |||
Liberal | George Ellis | 9,651 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | George Loyd Courthope | 14,871 | |||
Liberal | George Ellis | 7,289 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Sir George Loyd Courthope | 18,061 | 56.9 | ||
Liberal | William S. Osborn | 10,198 | 32.1 | ||
Labour | George A. Greenwood | 3,505 | 11.0 | n/a | |
Majority | 7,863 | 24.8 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sir George Loyd Courthope | Unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sir George Loyd Courthope | 22,604 | 71.2 | n/a | |
Liberal | Miss Dorothy Frances Osborn | 9,162 | 28.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 13,442 | 42.3 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 31,766 | 64.2 | n/a | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
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: Sir George Courthope
- Labour: George A. Greenwood[11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Nicolson Cuthbert | 19,701 | 58.6 | ||
Labour | B Simmons | 7,414 | 22.0 | ||
Liberal | Ronald Ogden | 6,530 | 19.4 | ||
Majority | 12,287 | 36.5 | |||
Turnout | 70.8 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bryant Godman Irvine | 28,500 | 72.96 | ||
Labour | Trevor L Payne | 10,560 | 27.04 | ||
Majority | 17,940 | 45.93 | |||
Turnout | 39,060 | 73.39 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bryant Godman Irvine | 27,465 | 64.8 | ||
Liberal | John R Murray | 7,549 | 17.8 | n/a | |
Labour | Douglas Sidney Tilbé | 7,359 | 17.4 | ||
Majority | 19,916 | 47.0 | |||
Turnout | 42,373 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bryant Godman Irvine | 27,240 | 59.8 | -5.0 | |
Liberal | Kenneth G. Wellings | 10,264 | 22.6 | +4.8 | |
Labour | Anthony E Arblaster | 8,014 | 17.6 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 16,976 | 37.2 | |||
Turnout | 45,518 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -4.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bryant Godman Irvine | 27,056 | 58.6 | -1.2 | |
Liberal | Kenneth G Wellings | 9,957 | 21.6 | -1.0 | |
Labour | David R Collins | 9,155 | 19.8 | +2.2 | |
Majority | 17,099 | 37.0 | |||
Turnout | 46,168 | 75.7 | -1.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.1 |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bryant Godman Irvine | 32,300 | 64.2 | ||
Labour | Harry A Fountain | 9,031 | 18.0 | ||
Liberal | Robin K J F Young | 8,947 | 17.8 | ||
Majority | 23,269 | 46.3 | |||
Turnout | 50,278 | 73 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bryant Godman Irvine | 33.591 | 57.9 | ||
Liberal | David R S Moore | 17,456 | 30.1 | ||
Labour | RW Harris | 6,967 | 12.0 | ||
Majority | 16,135 | 27.8 | |||
Turnout | 80.8 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bryant Godman Irvine | 30,511 | 56.9 | -1.0 | |
Liberal | David R S Moore | 14,828 | 27.6 | -2.5 | |
Labour | D W Threlfall | 8,303 | 15.5 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 15,683 | 29.3 | |||
Turnout | 74.2 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bryant Godman Irvine | 35,516 | 62.7 | +6.2 | |
Liberal | David R. S. Moore | 12,438 | 22.0 | -5.6 | |
Labour | Derek Smyth | 6,852 | 12.1 | -3.4 | |
Ecology | Anne Rix | 1,267 | 2.2 | N/A | |
National Front | T. Duesbury | 552 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 23,078 | 40.7 | |||
Turnout | 77.1 | +2.9 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.9 |
Notes
- ↑ LUNCEFORD, Simon (d.c.1390), of Rye, Suss. and New Romney, Kent. | History of Parliament Online
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Expelled 1641 for being a tobacco monopolist
- ↑ Styled Lord Hawkesbury from 1796
- ↑ Arbuthnot was also elected for St Germans, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Rye
- ↑ Pusey was originally declared elected, but by an order of the House of Commons on 17 May 1830 his name was erased from the return and that of De Lacy Evans was substituted
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 British parliamentary election results 1885-1918, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 (Craig)
- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1938
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 British parliamentary election results, 1974-1977 by FWS Craig
References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) titles A-Z
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Robert Walcott, English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
- Incomplete lists from September 2010
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- History of East Sussex
- Parliamentary constituencies in South East England (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1366
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1950
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1955
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983
- Politics of East Sussex
- Rother
- Rye, East Sussex
- Cinque ports parliament constituencies