Carlton | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Nottinghamshire |
Major settlements | Carlton |
1950–1983 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Broxtowe, Newark and Rushcliffe |
Replaced by | Gedling and Sherwood[1] |
Carlton was a constituency in Nottinghamshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election. It was then partly replaced by the new Gedling constituency.
Boundaries
[edit]1950–1974: The Urban Districts of Arnold and Carlton, the Rural District of Bingham, and in the Rural District of Basford the parishes of Burton Joyce, Calverton, Lambley, Stoke Bardolph, and Woodborough.
1974–1983: The Urban Districts of Arnold and Carlton, and in the Rural District of Basford the parishes of Bestwood Park, Burton Joyce, Calverton, Lambley, Linby, Newstead, Papplewick, Stoke Bardolph, and Woodborough.
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election | Member | Party | |
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1950 | Sir Kenneth Pickthorn | Conservative | |
1966 | Philip Holland | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Gedling |
Elections
[edit]Elections in the 1950s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kenneth Pickthorn | 19,585 | 40.84 | ||
Labour | Florence Paton | 19,190 | 40.02 | ||
Liberal | Cornelius Charles Kirk | 9,176 | 19.14 | ||
Majority | 395 | 0.82 | |||
Turnout | 47,951 | 87.17 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kenneth Pickthorn | 24,429 | 49.81 | +8.97 | |
Labour | Florence Paton | 20,685 | 42.18 | +2.16 | |
Liberal | Gerald Wortley H Parker | 3,930 | 8.01 | −11.13 | |
Majority | 3,744 | 7.63 | |||
Turnout | 49,044 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kenneth Pickthorn | 27,521 | 57.1 | +7.3 | |
Labour | Florence Paton | 20,664 | 42.9 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 6,857 | 14.2 | +6.6 | ||
Turnout | 48,185 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kenneth Pickthorn | 30,722 | 57.6 | +0.5 | |
Labour | Philip Myers | 22,645 | 42.4 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 8,077 | 15.2 | +1.0 | ||
Turnout | 53,367 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kenneth Pickthorn | 27,896 | 46.9 | −10.7 | |
Labour | Robert B Mellor | 21,546 | 36.2 | −6.2 | |
Liberal | Max G Payne | 10,034 | 16.9 | New | |
Majority | 6,350 | 10.7 | −4.5 | ||
Turnout | 59,476 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Philip Holland | 28,635 | 45.6 | −1.3 | |
Labour | Amos Lloyd Ramsden | 24,589 | 39.2 | +3.0 | |
Liberal | Max G Payne | 9,570 | 15.2 | −1.7 | |
Majority | 4,046 | 6.4 | −4.3 | ||
Turnout | 62,794 | 82.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Philip Holland | 39,840 | 59.6 | +14.0 | |
Labour | Carl Bennett | 27,043 | 40.4 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 12,797 | 19.2 | +12.8 | ||
Turnout | 66,883 | 84.51 | +2.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Philip Holland | 27,305 | 45.37 | −14.23 | |
Labour | James Murray | 20,147 | 33.58 | −6.92 | |
Liberal | Donald Lawrence Lange | 11,282 | 18.75 | New | |
National Front | Cyril Marriott | 1,449 | 2.41 | New | |
Majority | 7,158 | 11.79 | −7.21 | ||
Turnout | 60,183 | 84.48 | −0.03 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Philip Holland | 24,638 | 44.16 | −1.21 | |
Labour | Dennis Pettitt | 20,019 | 35.88 | +2.41 | |
Liberal | Donald Lawrence Lange | 9,859 | 17.67 | −1.07 | |
National Front | Cyril Marriott | 1,273 | 2.28 | −0.13 | |
Majority | 4,619 | 8.28 | −3.51 | ||
Turnout | 55,789 | 77.74 | −6.74 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.81 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Philip Holland | 31,762 | 52.56 | +8.39 | |
Labour | Arthur Palmer | 18,989 | 31.42 | −4.46 | |
Liberal | John Frederick West | 9,077 | 15.02 | −2.65 | |
National Front | Michael John Watts | 606 | 1.00 | −1.28 | |
Majority | 12,773 | 21.14 | +12.86 | ||
Turnout | 60,434 | 78.90 | +1.16 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.43 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "'Carlton', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ^ "UK General Election results February 1974". Politics Resources. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ "UK General Election results October 1974". Politics Resources. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ "UK General Election results 1979". Politics Resources. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.