Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency)
Ashburton | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Devon |
Major settlements | Ashburton |
1885–1918 | |
Number of members | One |
1640–1868 | |
Number of members | Two (1640–1832); One (1832–1868) |
Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
Ashburton was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament at Westminster, for one Parliament in 1298 and regularly from 1640 until it was abolished for the 1868 general election. It was one of three Devon borough constituencies newly enfranchised (or re-enfranchised after a gap of centuries) in the Long Parliament. It returned two Members of Parliament until the 1832 general election when the number was reduced to one MP.
From the 1885 general election Ashburton was revived as a county division of Devon. It returned one member until it was abolished from the 1918 general election.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Ashburton borough 1398–1868
Ashburton re-enfranchised by Parliament in Nov 1640
MPs 1640–1832
MPs 1832–1868
Election | Member | Party | |
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1832 | William Stephen Poyntz | Whig | |
1835 | Charles Lushington | Whig | |
1841 | William Jardine | Whig | |
1843 by-election | James Sutherland Matheson[8] | Whig | |
1847 | Thomas Matheson | Whig | |
1852 | George Moffatt | Whig | |
1859 | John Harvey Astell | Conservative | |
1865 | Robert Jardine | Liberal | |
1868 | Constituency abolished |
Notes
- ↑ Succeeded as 2nd Baronet, 1674
- ↑ At the election of 1710, Lloyd and Tuckfield were returned but on petition both were found not to have been duly elected (in a dispute over the franchise), and Reynell and Courtenay were declared elected in their place
- ↑ Courtenay had also been elected for Newport (Cornwall), which he chose to represent; on his being declared duly elected for Ashburton a new writ for a by-election was immediately issued, and Courtenay never sat for Ashburton
- ↑ Yonge was also elected for Honiton, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Ashburton
- ↑ Created a baronet, May 1782
- ↑ Knighted, May 1795
- ↑ Palk was re-elected in 1796 but was also elected for Devon, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Ashburton again
- ↑ Created a baronet, 1850
Mid or Ashburton division of Devon 1885–1918
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | Charles Seale-Hayne | Liberal | |
1904 by-election | Harry Trelawney Eve | Liberal | |
1908 by-election | Captain Ernest Fitzroy Morrison-Bell | Conservative | |
January 1910 | Charles Roden Buxton | Liberal | |
December 1910 | Captain Ernest Fitzroy Morrison-Bell | Conservative | |
1918 | Constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Hayne Seale-Hayne | 4,433 | 58.2 | n/a | |
Conservative | WJ Harris | 3,182 | 41.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,251 | 16.4 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 81.9 | n/a | |||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Hayne Seale-Hayne | 3,413 | 53.2 | -5.0 | |
Liberal Unionist | Richard Biddulph Martin | 3,007 | 46.8 | +5.0 | |
Majority | 406 | 6.4 | -10.0 | ||
Turnout | 69.0 | -12.9 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | -5.0 |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Hayne Seale-Hayne | 4,361 | 54.4 | ||
Conservative | CR Collins | 3,650 | 45.6 | ||
Majority | 711 | 8.8 | |||
Turnout | 85.3 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Rt Hon. Charles Hayne Seale-Hayne | 4,380 | 52.4 | -2.0 | |
Conservative | John A Nix | 3,976 | 47.6 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 4.4 | 4.8 | -4.0 | ||
Turnout | 85.9 | +0.6 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | -2.0 |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Rt Hon. Charles Hayne Seale-Hayne | 4,487 | 54.7 | ||
Conservative | John A Nix | 3,716 | 45.3 | ||
Majority | 771 | 9.4 | |||
Turnout | 83.9 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Harry Trelawney Eve | 5,034 | 58.6 | +3.9 | |
Conservative | Sir Richard Harrison | 3,558 | 41.4 | -3.9 | |
Majority | 1,476 | 17.2 | +7.8 | ||
Turnout | 85.1 | +1.2 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | +3.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Harry Trelawney Eve | 5,079 | 57.3 | ||
Conservative | Ernest Fitzroy Morrison-Bell | 3,790 | 42.7 | ||
Majority | 1,289 | 14.6 | |||
Turnout | 85.0 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ernest Fitzroy Morrison-Bell | 5,191 | 52.8 | +10.1 | |
Liberal | Charles Roden Buxton | 4,632 | 47.2 | -10.1 | |
Majority | 559 | 5.7 | 20.2 | ||
Turnout | 9,823 | 89.5 | +4.5 | ||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +10.1 |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Roden Buxton | 5,668 | |||
Conservative | Ernest Fitzroy Morrison-Bell | 5,421 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ernest Fitzroy Morrison-Bell | 5,579 | 51.6 | ||
Liberal | Charles Roden Buxton | 5,225 | 48.4 | ||
Majority | 354 | 3.2 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing |
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: Ernest Fitzroy Morrison-Bell
- Liberal:
References
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
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- Use dmy dates from April 2012
- Pages with broken file links
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
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