Northampton was a parliamentary constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

 centred on the town of Northampton

Northampton

Northampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. Situated about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, Northampton lies on the River Nene and is the county town of Northamptonshire. The demonym of Northampton is...

 which existed until 1974.

It returned two Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

 until its representation was reduced to one member for the 1918 general election

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...

. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election

United Kingdom general election, February 1974

The United Kingdom's general election of February 1974 was held on the 28th of that month. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the first election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party,...

, when it was replaced by the new constituencies of Northampton North

Northampton North (UK Parliament constituency)

Northampton North is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. It was created before the election of February 1974 when the old constituency of Northampton...

 and Northampton South

Northampton South (UK Parliament constituency)

Northampton South is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for February 1974 general election when the old constituency of Northampton was split into Northampton North and Northampton South.-Boundary...

.

A former MP of note for the constituency was Spencer Perceval

Spencer Perceval

Spencer Perceval, KC was a British statesman and First Lord of the Treasury, making him de facto Prime Minister. He is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated...

, the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated.

1295-1640

• 1295: constituency established, electing two MPs

Parliament	First member	Second member
1377	Sir Gerard de Braybooke of Castle Ashby
1377	Sir Thomas Preston of Gretton
1378	Sir John Seton
1379	Sir Thomas Preston of Gretton
1380	Sir Thomas Preston of Gretton
1382	Giles St John of Plumpton
1386	William Spriggy	WIilliam Ringwood
1388 (Feb)	Thomas Pirie	John Stotesbury
1388 (Sep)	John Honybourne	John Besford
1390 (Jan)	John Colingtree	John Sywell
1390 (Nov)
1391	William Begworth	John Stotesbury
1393	William Spriggy	Stephen Wappenham
1394
1395	Nicholas Horncastle	John Woodward
1397 (Jan)	Richard Stormsworth	Thomas Overton
1397 (Sep)
1399	John Loudham	John Spring
1401
1406	Henry Empingham	Thomas Wintringham
1407	John Rivell	John Temple
1410	Simon Dunstall	John Lincoln
1411	Richard Wems	William Rushden
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	Roger Maltman	Alexander Deyster
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)	Geoffrey Balde	John Hethersett
1415
1416 (Mar)	John Hendley	John Buckingham
1416 (Oct)
1417	William Clerk	Thomas Colley
1419	Thomas Stotesbury	Ralph Passenham
1420	William Maltman	William Harpole
1421 (May)	John Bernhill	John Ccolden
1421 (Dec)	John Spriggy	Stephen Kynnesman
1477–1478	Robert Pemberton
1510-1515	No names known
1523	John Parvyn	Thomas Doddington
1529	Lawrence Manley	Nicholas Rand
1536	?
1539	?
1542	?
1545	?
1547	Richard Wenman	Anthony Bryan
1553 (Mar)	George Tresham	William Chauncy
1553 (Oct)	Francis Morgan	Lawrence Manley
1554 (Apr)	Francis Morgan	John Horpool
1554 (Nov)	Henry Clerke	Ralph Freeman
1555	Nicholas Rand	John Balgye
1558	Thomas Colles	Edward Manley
1559 (Jan)	William Carvell	Edmund (or Edward) Kinwelmersh
1562/3	Lewis Montgomery	Ralph Lane
1571	Christopher Yelverton Christopher Yelverton Sir Christopher Yelverton was an English judge and speaker of the House of Commons.-Early life:He was the third son of William Yelverton of Rougham, Norfolk...	-
1572 (Apr)	Christopher Yelverton Christopher Yelverton Sir Christopher Yelverton was an English judge and speaker of the House of Commons.-Early life:He was the third son of William Yelverton of Rougham, Norfolk...	John Spencer
1584 (Nov)	Sir Richard Knightley Richard Knightley Sir Richard Knightley , of Fawsley in Northamptonshire, was an English Member of Parliament and leading patron of the Puritans during the reign of Elizabeth I....	Thomas Catesby
1586 (Sep)	Sir Richard Knightley Richard Knightley Sir Richard Knightley , of Fawsley in Northamptonshire, was an English Member of Parliament and leading patron of the Puritans during the reign of Elizabeth I....	Peter Wentworth Peter Wentworth Peter Wentworth was a prominent Puritan leader in the Parliament of England. He was the elder brother of Paul Wentworth, and first entered as member for Barnstaple in 1571. He later sat for the Cornish borough of Tregony in 1572, and for the town of Northampton in the parliaments of 1586–7, 1589,...
1588 (Oct)	Peter Wentworth Peter Wentworth Peter Wentworth was a prominent Puritan leader in the Parliament of England. He was the elder brother of Paul Wentworth, and first entered as member for Barnstaple in 1571. He later sat for the Cornish borough of Tregony in 1572, and for the town of Northampton in the parliaments of 1586–7, 1589,...	Richard Knollys
1593	Valentne Knightley	Peter Wentworth Peter Wentworth Peter Wentworth was a prominent Puritan leader in the Parliament of England. He was the elder brother of Paul Wentworth, and first entered as member for Barnstaple in 1571. He later sat for the Cornish borough of Tregony in 1572, and for the town of Northampton in the parliaments of 1586–7, 1589,...
1597 (Oct)	Christopher Yelverton Christopher Yelverton Sir Christopher Yelverton was an English judge and speaker of the House of Commons.-Early life:He was the third son of William Yelverton of Rougham, Norfolk...	Henry Yelverton Henry Yelverton (attorney-general) -Life:The eldest son of Sir Christopher Yelverton and his wife, Margaret Catesby, he was born on 29 June 1566, it is said at Easton-Mauduit, his father's house in Northamptonshire. He became a barrister on 25 April 1593, and an ancient on 25 May of the same year. He was reader in 1607.In 1597, 1604...
1601	Henry Hickman	Francis Tate Francis Tate Francis Tate was an English antiquary and politician, Member of Parliament for Northampton and Shrewsbury.-Life:He was born in 1560 at Gayton, the second son of Bartholomew Tate of Delapre, Northamptonshire, by his wife Dorothy, daughter of Francis Tanfield of Gayton...
1604	Henry Yelverton Henry Yelverton (attorney-general) -Life:The eldest son of Sir Christopher Yelverton and his wife, Margaret Catesby, he was born on 29 June 1566, it is said at Easton-Mauduit, his father's house in Northamptonshire. He became a barrister on 25 April 1593, and an ancient on 25 May of the same year. He was reader in 1607.In 1597, 1604...	Edward Mercer
1614	Henry Yelverton Henry Yelverton (attorney-general) -Life:The eldest son of Sir Christopher Yelverton and his wife, Margaret Catesby, he was born on 29 June 1566, it is said at Easton-Mauduit, his father's house in Northamptonshire. He became a barrister on 25 April 1593, and an ancient on 25 May of the same year. He was reader in 1607.In 1597, 1604...	Francis Beale
1621-1622	Richard Spencer	Thomas Crewe Thomas Crewe Sir Thomas Crewe , of Stene in Northamptonshire, was an English Member of Parliament and lawyer, and served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1623 to 1625....
1624	Richard Spencer	Christopher Sherland
1625	Richard Spencer	Christopher Sherland
1626	Richard Spencer	Christopher Sherland
1628	Richard Spencer	Christopher Sherland
1629–1640	No Parliaments convened

1640-1918

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
April 1640 Short Parliament The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that sat from 13 April to 5 May 1640 during the reign of King Charles I of England, so called because it lasted only three weeks....		Richard Knightley Richard Knightley (1617-1661) Sir Richard Knightley KB , of Fawsley in Northamptonshire, was an English Member of Parliament .A member of Gray's Inn, Knightley was a member of a prominent Northamptonshire family who had married Elizabeth Hampden, daughter of John Hampden, the leading opponent of Charles I...	Parliamentarian		?
November 1640 Long Parliament The Long Parliament was made on 3 November 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It received its name from the fact that through an Act of Parliament, it could only be dissolved with the agreement of the members, and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and...					Zouch Tate Zouch Tate Zouch Tate was an English Member of Parliament. He represented Northampton in the Long Parliament. In November 1644, he was appointed chairman of a committee to investigate Cromwell's accusations against the army, and on 9 December 1644 he moved the Self-denying Ordinance in the House of Commons,...	Parliamentarian
December 1648	Knightley excluded in Pride's Purge Pride's Purge Pride’s Purge is an event in December 1648, during the Second English Civil War, when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents...  - seat vacant			Tate not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge Pride's Purge Pride’s Purge is an event in December 1648, during the Second English Civil War, when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents...
1653	Northampton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament Barebones Parliament Barebone's Parliament, also known as the Little Parliament, the Nominated Assembly and the Parliament of Saints, came into being on 4 July 1653, and was the last attempt of the English Commonwealth to find a stable political form before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector...
1654 First Protectorate Parliament The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the House....		Peter Whalley		Northampton had only one seat in the First First Protectorate Parliament The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the House....   and Second Second Protectorate Parliament The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons...  Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 Second Protectorate Parliament The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons...		Francis Harvey Francis Harvey (MP) Francis Harvey was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1661.Harvey was the son of William Harvey of Weston Favell, Northamptonshire and was baptised on 20 December 1611. He matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford on 19 October 1627,...
January 1659 Third Protectorate Parliament The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speakers of the House of Commons...					James Langham Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1662.Langham was the son of Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Bunce....
May 1659 Rump Parliament The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason....	Not represented in the restored Rump Rump Parliament The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason....
March 1660		Francis Harvey Francis Harvey (MP) Francis Harvey was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1661.Harvey was the son of William Harvey of Weston Favell, Northamptonshire and was baptised on 20 December 1611. He matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford on 19 October 1627,...			Richard Rainsford
June 1660		Sir John Norwich, Bt. Sir John Norwich, 1st Baronet Sir John Norwich, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at times between 1654 and 1660.Norwich was created baronet of Brampton in the county of Northampton on 24 July 1641...
April 1661		Francis Harvey Francis Harvey (MP) Francis Harvey was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1661.Harvey was the son of William Harvey of Weston Favell, Northamptonshire and was baptised on 20 December 1611. He matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford on 19 October 1627,...			James Langham Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1662.Langham was the son of Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Bunce....
November 1661		Sir Charles Compton			Richard Rainsford
1662		Sir James Langham, Bt. Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1662.Langham was the son of Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Bunce....
March 1663		Sir William Dudley, Bt.
April 1663		Hon. Christopher Hatton
March 1664					Sir John Bernard
April 1664					Sir Henry Yelverton, Bt. Sir Henry Yelverton, 2nd Baronet Sir Henry Yelverton, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660 and from 1664 to 1670....
1670		Sir William Fermor William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster , was an English connoisseur.Fermor was the eldest son of Sir William Fermor, 1st Baronet, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, by Mary, daughter of Hugh Perry of London and widow of Henry Noel, second son of Edward, viscount Campden. He succeeded as second...			Lord Ibrackan
1678					Hon. Ralph Montagu Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu was an English courtier and diplomat.-Life:He was the second son of Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton and Anne Winwood, daughter of the Secretary of State Ralph Winwood...
February 1679					Sir Hugh Cholmley, Bt.
August 1679		William Langham			Hon. Ralph Montagu Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu was an English courtier and diplomat.-Life:He was the second son of Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton and Anne Winwood, daughter of the Secretary of State Ralph Winwood...
1685		Richard Rainsford			Sir Justinian Isham, Bt.
1689		William Langham
1690					Sir Thomas Samwell, Bt. Sir Thomas Samwell, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Samwell, 1st Baronet was a Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire from 1689 to 1690 and Northampton from 1690 to 1694....
1694					Sir Justinian Isham, Bt.
1695		Christopher Montagu
1698					William Thursby
1701					Thomas Andrew
1702		Sir Matthew Dudley, Bt.			Bartholomew Tate
1704					Francis Arundell
1705		George Montagu George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax PC was a British politician.Halifax was the son of Edward Montagu, grandson of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, and Elizabeth Pelham.Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, was his uncle....
1710					William Wykes
1715		William Wilmer
1722					Edward Montagu Edward Montagu (died 1738) Brigadier Edward Montagu or Montague was a British soldier and politician. He was the MP for Northampton from 1722 to 1734. He was brother to Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, and grandson of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester.From 1725 to 1732, he was lieutenant-governor of Fort St...
1727		Hon. George Compton George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton , known as the Honourable George Compton until 1754, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....
1734					William Wilmer
1744					George Montagu
April 1754					Charles Montagu
December 1754		Hon. Charles Compton
1755		Richard Backwell Richard Backwell Richard Backwell is an Australian professional golfer.Backwell played on the Japan Golf Tour from 1994 to 2002, winning once.-External links:...
1759					Frederick Montagu Frederick Montagu Frederick Montagu PC, FRS was a British Whig MP.Montagu was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was MP for Northampton from 1759 to 1768, and for Higham Ferrers from 1768 to 1790. He was in favour of tolerance for Dissenters and the removal of adherence to the Thirty-Nine Articles...
1761		Spencer Compton Spencer Compton, 8th Earl of Northampton Spencer Compton, 8th Earl of Northampton was a British peer and Member of Parliament.Northampton was the younger son of the Hon. Charles Compton, third son of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton. His mother was Mary Lucy...
1763		Lucy Knightly
1768		Vice-Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB was a British naval officer. He is best known for his commands in the American War of Independence, particularly his victory over the French at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782...			Sir George Osborn, Bt. Sir George Osborn, 4th Baronet Sir George Osborn, 4th Baronet was born into the British aristocracy. He fought in the American Revolutionary War as a British officer. He served as a Member of Parliament before, during, and after that conflict. In 1777 he led a detachment of the Guards Brigade at the battles of Brandywine and...
1769					Hon. Thomas Howe
1771					Wilbraham Tollemache Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart FRS , known from 1739 to 1799 as Hon. Wilbraham Tollemache, was a British politician, a younger son of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart....
1774		Sir George Robinson, 5th Bt.
1780		Viscount Althorp			George Rodney
1782		The Lord Lucan
1784		Lord Compton Charles Compton, 1st Marquess of Northampton Charles Compton, 1st Marquess of Northampton , known as Lord Compton from 1763 to 1796 and as the 9th Earl of Northampton from 1796 to 1812, was a British peer and politician....			Fiennes Trotman
1790					Hon. Edward Bouverie
1796		Hon. Spencer Perceval Spencer Perceval Spencer Perceval, KC was a British statesman and First Lord of the Treasury, making him de facto Prime Minister. He is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated...
1810					William Hanbury Bateman
1812		Earl Compton Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton , known as Lord Compton from 1796 to 1812 and as Earl Compton from 1812 to 1828, was a British nobleman and patron of science and the arts....
1818					Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt. Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet, GCH, KCB was a British Army officer and politician.Kerrison was a Lieutenant-Colenel in the Seventh Light Dragoons when he, with Charles Wetherell petitioned parliament over electoral malpractice in the parliamentary elections for Shafstubry...
1820		Sir George Robinson, 6th Bt.			William Leader Maberly William Leader Maberly William Leader Maberly spent most of his life as a British army officer and Whig politician.He was the eldest child of John Maberly , a currier, clothing manufacturer, banker and MP, who had made and lost a fortune in a lifetime....
1830					Sir Robert Gunning, Bt.
1831					Robert Vernon Smith	Whig
1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 -Seats summary:-Parties and leaders at the general election:The Earl Grey had been Prime Minister since 22 November 1830. His was the first predominantly Whig administration since the Ministry of all the Talents in 1806-1807....		Charles Ross	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...
1837 United Kingdom general election, 1837 The 1837 United Kingdom general election saw Robert Peel's Conservatives close further on the position of the Whigs, who won their fourth election of the decade....		Raikes Currie Raikes Currie Raikes Currie was Member of Parliament for Northampton from 1837 to 1857. He was a partner of the bank Curries & Co, Cornhill, City of London, and had several interests in the newly developing colony of South Australia...	Whig
1857 United Kingdom general election, 1857 -Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...		Charles Gilpin Charles Gilpin (politician) Charles Gilpin was a Quaker, orator, politician, publisher and railway director. Amongst his many causes were the movement to repeal the Corn Laws, to establish world peace through the Peace Society, abolition of the death penalty and the anti-slavery movement, enfranchisement by providing...	Whig
1859 United Kingdom general election, 1859 In the 1859 United Kingdom general election, the Whigs, led by Lord Palmerston, held their majority in the House of Commons over the Earl of Derby's Conservatives...			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...			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...
1859 by-election					The Lord Henley Anthony Henley, 3rd Baron Henley Anthony Henley Henley, 3rd Baron Henley , also 1st Baron Northington in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, was a British peer and Liberal Member of Parliament....	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...
February 1874 United Kingdom general election, 1874 -Seats summary:-References:* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...					Pickering Phipps Pickering Phipps Pickering Phipps is the name of three related men, father, grandson and great grandson, who were all residents of Northampton, England from 19th and early 20th century. The first began the Phipps Brewery in Towcester in 1801. The company survives today as Phipps NBC.-Pickering Phipps I:Pickering...	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...
October 1874 by-election		Charles George Merewether	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...
1880 United Kingdom general election, 1880 -Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...		Henry du Pré Labouchère Henry Labouchere Henry Du Pré Labouchère was an English politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He married the actress Henrietta Hodson....	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...		Charles Bradlaugh Charles Bradlaugh Charles Bradlaugh was a political activist and one of the most famous English atheists of the 19th century. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866.-Early life:...	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...
1891 by-election					(Sir) Moses Philip Manfield	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...
1895 United Kingdom general election, 1895 The United Kingdom general election of 1895 was held from 13 July - 7 August 1895. It was won by the Conservatives led by Lord Salisbury who formed an alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party and had a large majority over the Liberals, led by Lord Rosebery...					Charles Gustavus Adolphus Drucker	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...
1900 United Kingdom general election, 1900 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1900*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**...					John Greenwood Shipman John Greenwood Shipman Dr John Greenwood Shipman was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:Shipman was born in Manchester the only son of John Shipman of Northampton and his wife Ruth . Ruth Shipman was the aunt of George Sheffield , the Manchester artist...	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...
1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1906*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**...		Herbert Woodfield Paul	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...
Jan. 1910		Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith	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...		Charles McCurdy Charles McCurdy Charles Albert McCurdy was a British Liberal Member of Parliament and minister in the Lloyd George Coalition Government. He was made a member of the Privy Council in 1920....	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...
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...	Representation reduced to one member

Notes

1918-1974

Election		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...		Charles McCurdy Charles McCurdy Charles Albert McCurdy was a British Liberal Member of Parliament and minister in the Lloyd George Coalition Government. He was made a member of the Privy Council in 1920....	Coalition Liberal
1922 United Kingdom general election, 1922 The United Kingdom general election of 1922 was held on 15 November 1922. It was the first election held after most of the Irish counties left the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State, and was won by Andrew Bonar Law's Conservatives, who gained an overall majority over Labour, led by John...			National Liberal National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) The National Liberal Party was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923. It was led by David Lloyd George and was, at the time, separate to the original Liberal Party.-History:...
1923 United Kingdom general election, 1923 -Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987*-External links:***...		Margaret Bondfield Margaret Bondfield Margaret Grace Bondfield was an English Labour politician and feminist, the first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom and one of the first three female Labour MPs...	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 United Kingdom general election, 1924 - Seats summary :- References :* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* - External links :* * *...		Sir Arthur Holland Arthur Holland (UK politician) Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Edward Aveling Holland KCB KCMG DSO MVO was a British Army officer and Conservative and Unionist politician.-Military career:...	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...
1928 by-election		Cecil Malone Cecil L'Estrange Malone Cecil John L'Estrange Malone was Britain's first communist member of the House of Commons.-Early years:Born in Dalton Holme, Yorkshire on 7 September 1890, a rector's son, he joined the Royal Navy in 1905 and attended the Royal Naval College at Devonport. In 1912 he learned to fly and gained his...	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...
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...		Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller	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...
1940 by-election		Spencer Summers	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...
1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to...		Reginald Paget Reginald Paget, Baron Paget of Northampton Reginald Thomas Guy Des Voeux Paget, Baron Paget of Northampton, PC, QC, , also known as Reginald Guy Thomas Du Voeux Paget was a British lawyer and Labour politician....	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...
Feb 1974	constituency abolished

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