Harrogate | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | North Yorkshire |
Major settlements | Harrogate and Knaresborough |
1950–1997 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Ripon |
Replaced by | Harrogate and Knaresborough |
Harrogate (/ˈhærəɡət, -ɡeɪt, -ɡɪt/ HARR-ə-gət, -gayt, -ghit)[1][2] was a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. As with all constituencies, the constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The constituency was renamed Harrogate and Knaresborough in 1997.
Constituency profile
[edit]The seat covered an area with little unemployment, a relatively large retired population and large neighbourhoods of high house prices.[n 2][3] Until former Chancellor Norman Lamont stood for the first time in the successor seat in the New Labour landslide general election in 1997, it had been part of a Conservative safe seat since 1910. However, Harrogate moved the way of other famous spa towns in England, such as Bath[n 3] by returning a Liberal Democrat MP.
Boundaries
[edit]1950–1983: The Municipal Borough of Harrogate, the Urban District of Knaresborough, and the Rural District of Nidderdale except the parishes of Hessay, Knapton, Moor Monkton, Nether Poppleton, Rufforth, and Upper Poppleton.
1983–1997: The Borough of Harrogate wards of Bilton, Claro, Duchy, East Central, Granby, Harlow, Knaresborough East, Knaresborough West, Marston Moor, Nether Poppleton, New Park, Ouseburn, Pannal, Spofforth, Starbeck, Upper Poppleton, Wedderburn, and West Central.
History
[edit]Before 1950 Harrogate had been part of the Ripon constituency. The constituency was created as 'Harrogate' and following boundary changes in 1997 the name was changed to Harrogate and Knaresborough.
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election | Member[4] | Party | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1950 | Christopher York | Conservative | Resigned February 1954 | |
1954 by-election | James Ramsden | Conservative | ||
Feb 1974 | Robert Banks | Conservative |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1950s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Christopher York | 28,582 | 68.55 | ||
Labour | Edward J. Parris | 13,114 | 31.45 | ||
Majority | 15,468 | 37.10 | |||
Turnout | 41,696 | 81.24 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Christopher York | 28,806 | 70.56 | ||
Labour | Christopher William Sewell | 12,021 | 29.44 | ||
Majority | 16,785 | 41.12 | |||
Turnout | 40,827 | 78.74 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Ramsden | 20,263 | 70.78 | +0.22 | |
Labour | Ernest Kavanagh | 8,367 | 29.22 | −0.22 | |
Majority | 11,896 | 41.56 | +0.44 | ||
Turnout | 28,630 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Ramsden | 26,799 | 72.32 | ||
Labour | Thomas Evers | 10,258 | 27.68 | ||
Majority | 16,541 | 44.64 | |||
Turnout | 37,057 | 71.86 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Ramsden | 29,466 | 74.29 | ||
Labour | Frederick Bernard Singleton | 10,196 | 25.71 | ||
Majority | 19,270 | 48.58 | |||
Turnout | 39,662 | 74.49 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Ramsden | 24,474 | 57.64 | ||
Liberal | Barrington Malcolm Black | 9,332 | 21.98 | New | |
Labour | Edward Lyons | 8,655 | 20.38 | ||
Majority | 15,142 | 35.66 | |||
Turnout | 42,461 | 77.00 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Ramsden | 22,932 | 54.97 | ||
Liberal | Walter Greaves | 9,518 | 22.82 | ||
Labour | Reginald Ernest Holmes | 9,267 | 22.21 | ||
Majority | 13,414 | 32.15 | |||
Turnout | 41,717 | 74.47 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Ramsden | 26,167 | 59.76 | ||
Liberal | Walter Greaves | 8,825 | 20.15 | ||
Labour | Brian Hellowell | 8,797 | 20.09 | ||
Majority | 17,342 | 39.61 | |||
Turnout | 43,789 | 69.93 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Banks | 27,517 | 53.55 | ||
Liberal | Ian DeCourcey Bayley | 15,728 | 30.61 | ||
Labour | Michael A. Wheaton | 6,084 | 11.84 | ||
National Front | Andrew Brons | 1,186 | 2.31 | New | |
Democratic Christian | J. E. Stringfellow | 875 | 1.70 | New | |
Majority | 11,789 | 22.94 | |||
Turnout | 51,390 | 80.05 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Banks | 24,583 | 53.85 | ||
Liberal | Ian DeCourcey Bayley | 11,269 | 24.69 | ||
Labour | Barry Seal | 8,047 | 17.63 | ||
National Front | Andrew Brons | 1,030 | 2.26 | ||
Whig | Cecil Margolis | 719 | 1.58 | New | |
Majority | 13,314 | 29.17 | |||
Turnout | 45,648 | 70.49 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Banks | 30,551 | 59.46 | ||
Liberal | Rodney Kent | 12,021 | 23.40 | ||
Labour | A. Fleming | 8,221 | 16.00 | ||
National Front | D. Waite | 585 | 1.14 | ||
Majority | 18,530 | 36.06 | |||
Turnout | 51,378 | 74.26 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1980s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Banks | 30,269 | 60.23 | ||
SDP | John Burney | 14,381 | 28.62 | ||
Labour | John Dixon | 5,128 | 10.20 | ||
Reintroduction of Hanging and Corporal Punishment | D. Kelley | 316 | 0.63 | New | |
National Front | P. Vessey | 163 | 0.32 | ||
Majority | 15,888 | 31.61 | |||
Turnout | 50,257 | 69.02 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Banks | 31,167 | 55.55 | ||
SDP | Jonathan Leach | 19,265 | 34.34 | ||
Labour | Andrew Wright | 5,671 | 10.10 | ||
Majority | 11,902 | 21.21 | |||
Turnout | 56,103 | 74.05 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Banks | 32,023 | 53.85 | ||
Liberal Democrats | T. J. Hurren | 19,434 | 32.68 | ||
Labour | A. J. Wright | 7,230 | 12.16 | ||
Green | Arnold Warneken | 780 | 1.31 | New | |
Majority | 12,589 | 21.17 | |||
Turnout | 59,467 | 77.99 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
See also
[edit]Notes and references
[edit]- Notes
- ^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ^ In the 2001 census: worklessness was the status of (see Harrogate 009 Middle Layer SOA for access to the whole district): 1.0% of working age people compared to Yorkshire and the Humber: 2.6% England 2.3%
However in the 2001 Census publication "Indices of Deprivation and Classification: Social Grade" 0.27% of the wider District population of 69,614 of working age were Class E: On state benefit, unemployed, lowest grade workers, slightly higher than 0.22% Yorkshire and the Humber average and 0.24% national average - ^ And for example more urban and less touristic Cheltenham, which is in the Gloucester conurbation
- References
- ^ Jones, Daniel (2011). Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.). "Harrogate". Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-521-15255-6.
- ^ "Harrogate". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ^ Mouseprice.com heat map
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.