Holland with Boston (UK Parliament constituency)

Holland with Boston was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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from 1918 to 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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(MP) by the first past the post system of election.

History

The constituency was created in 1918 and abolished in 1997. By the time of its abolition, it was a safe Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

seat. However, Holland with Boston had been held by both the Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

and Labour parties before the Second World War

World War II

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Boundaries

From 1885 to 1918 the parliamentary borough

Parliamentary borough

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of Boston

Boston (UK Parliament constituency)

Boston was a parliamentary borough in Lincolnshire, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1547 until 1885, and then one member from 1885 until 1918, when the constituency was abolished.-History:...

returned one MP, while the Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

county division of Spalding

Spalding (UK Parliament constituency)

Spalding was a county constituency in Lincolnshire, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

, in the south-east of the historic county, elected another MP. In 1918 these two seats were merged to form the new Holland with Boston constituency.

The new constituency had the same boundaries as the traditional sub-division of the historic county known as the Parts of Holland

Holland, Lincolnshire

Holland is an area of south-east Lincolnshire, England. The name is still recognised locally and survives in the district of South Holland.-Administration:...

, which had become an administrative county

Administrative county

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in 1889.

In the 1974 redistribution of parliamentary seats the constituency was re-defined as comprising the Municipal Borough of Boston

Boston, Lincolnshire

Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. It is the largest town of the wider Borough of Boston local government district and had a total population of 55,750 at the 2001 census...

, Spalding Urban District

Spalding, Lincolnshire

Spalding is a market town with a population of 30,000 on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Little London is a hamlet directly south of Spalding on the B1172 road....

and the Rural District

Rural district

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s of Boston

Boston Rural District

Boston was a rural district in Holland, Lincolnshire from 1894 to 1974.It was formed from the Boston rural sanitary district by the Local Government Act 1894. It did not include the municipal borough of Boston...

, East Elloe

East Elloe Rural District

East Elloe was a rural district in Holland in Lincolnshire from 1894 to 1974.It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from the Holbeach rural sanitary district, and named after the historic Elloe hundred of Lincolnshire....

, and Spalding

Spalding Rural District

Spalding was a rural district in Holland in Lincolnshire, England from 1894 to 1974.It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from the Spalding rural sanitary district...

.

The Parts of Holland County Council was abolished in 1974 and replaced by a Lincolnshire County Council. However the parliamentary boundaries continued to be based on the pre-1974 local authorities until 1983.

The 1983 redistribution defined the constituency as the Borough of Boston

Boston (borough)

Boston is a local government district with borough status in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in the town of Boston. It lies around N53°0'0" W0°0'0"....

and eleven wards of the District of South Holland

South Holland, Lincolnshire

South Holland is a local government district of Lincolnshire. The district council is based in Spalding.It was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the Spalding urban district with East Elloe Rural District and Spalding Rural District...

: Donington, Fleet, Gedney, Holbeach Hurn, Holbeach St John, Holbeach Town, Long Sutton, Moulton, Sutton Bridge, The Saints, and Whaplode. All of the 1983 seat had been part of the pre-1983 constituency.

In 1997 the constituency was abolished and replaced by two new constituencies, Boston and Skegness and South Holland and The Deepings.

Members of Parliament

	Member	Party
1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which nearly all adult men and some women could vote. Polling was held on 14 December 1918, although the count did...	William Stapleton Royce William Stapleton Royce William Stapleton Royce was an English Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for the Holland-with-Boston constituency from 1918 until 1924....	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
1924 by-election Holland with Boston by-election, 1924 The Holland with Boston by-election, 1924 was a by-election held on 31st July 1924 for the British House of Commons constituency of Holland with Boston in Lincolnshire....	Arthur Wellesley Dean	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1929 by-election Holland with Boston by-election, 1929 The Holland with Boston by-election, 1929 was a by-election held on 21st March 1929 for the British House of Commons constituency of Holland with Boston in Lincolnshire....	Sir James Blindell James Blindell Sir James Blindell was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, who served as the Member of Parliament for Holland with Boston from 1929 until his death....	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
1931 United Kingdom general election, 1931 The United Kingdom general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. It was also the last election, and the only one under universal suffrage, where one party received an absolute majority of the votes cast.The 1931 general election was the...		National Liberal National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
1937 by-election Holland with Boston by-election, 1937 The Holland with Boston by-election, 1937 was a parliamentary by-election held on 24 June 1937 for the British House of Commons constituency of Holland with Boston.- Previous MP :...	Sir Herbert Butcher Herbert Butcher Sir Herbert Walter Butcher, 1st Baronet was an English Conservative and National Liberalpolitician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1937 to 1966....	National Liberal National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950 resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just five...		National Liberal & Conservative National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
1966 United Kingdom general election, 1966 The 1966 United Kingdom general election on 31 March 1966 was called by sitting Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Wilson's decision to call an election turned on the fact that his government, elected a mere 17 months previously in 1964 had an unworkably small majority of only 4 MPs...	Sir Richard Body	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...	constituency abolished: see Boston and Skegness and South Holland and the Deepings

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1950s

*Stood as National Liberal & Conservative, from 1950 onwards.

Elections in the 1920s

Sources

http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk.htm Area Studies, UK: politics, elections and government in Britain
Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)

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