Hythe (UK Parliament constituency)
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Hythe | |
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Former constituency for the House of Commons |
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1366–1950 | |
Number of members | 1298–1832: two 1832–1950: one |
Replaced by | Folkestone and Hythe |
Hythe was a constituency centred on the town of Hythe in Kent. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons until 1832, when its representation was reduced to one member. The constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, and replaced with the new Folkestone and Hythe constituency.
Boundaries[edit]
1918-1950: The Municipal Boroughs of Folkestone and Hythe, the Urban District of Cheriton, and part of the Urban District of Sandgate.
Members of Parliament[edit]
1366-1640[edit]
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1640-1832[edit]
1832-1950[edit]
Year | Member | Party | |
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1832 | Stewart Marjoribanks | Whig | |
1837 | Viscount Melgund | Whig | |
1841 | Stewart Marjoribanks | Whig | |
1847 | Edward Drake Brockman | Whig | |
1857 | Sir John Ramsden | Whig | |
1859 | Baron Mayer de Rothschild | Liberal | |
1874 | Sir Edward Watkin | Liberal | |
1885 | Independent Liberal | ||
1886 | Liberal Unionist | ||
1895 | Sir James Bevan Edwards | Conservative | |
1899 | Sir Edward Sassoon | Liberal Unionist | |
1912 | Sir Philip Sassoon | Unionist | |
1939 | Rupert Brabner | Conservative | |
1945 | Harry Mackeson | Conservative | |
1950 | Constituency abolished |
Election results[edit]
Elections in the 1910s[edit]
Elections in the 1880s[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Independent Liberal | Sir Edward William Watkin | 2,247 | n/a | ||
Liberal | Alpheus Cleophas Morton | 797 | |||
Majority | 1,450 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Independent Liberal gain from Liberal | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Liberal Unionist | Sir Edward William Watkin | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1890s[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Liberal Unionist | Sir Edward William Watkin | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Sir James Bevan Edwards | 2,189 | n/a | ||
Liberal | Sir Israel Hart | 1,726 | n/a | ||
Majority | 463 | n/a | |||
Turnout | n/a | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Sir Edward Albert Sassoon | 2,425 | |||
Liberal | Sir Israel Hart | 1,898 | |||
Majority | 527 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1900s[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Sir Edward Albert Sassoon | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sir Edward Albert Sassoon | 3,246 | n/a | ||
Liberal | Henry Chartres Biron | 2,347 | n/a | ||
Majority | 899 | n/a | |||
Turnout | n/a | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1910s[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sir Edward Albert Sassoon | 3,746 | 65.7 | ||
Liberal | William Clarke Hall | 1,954 | 34.3 | ||
Majority | 1,792 | 31.4 | |||
Turnout | 87.1 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Sir Edward Albert Sassoon | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon | 3,722 | 65.0 | n/a | |
Liberal | Samuel Moorhouse | 2,004 | 35.0 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,718 | 30.0 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 82.2 | n/a | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
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: Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon
- Liberal: William Deedes
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | 8,809 | 72.0 | |||
Labour | Robert William Forsyth | 3,427 | 28.0 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,392 | 44.0 | |||
Turnout | 61.6 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
- endorsed by the Coalition Government
Elections in the 1920s[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon | 12,843 | 76.5 | n/a | |
Labour | Constantine Gallop | 3,936 | 23.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 8,907 | 53.0 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 79.7 | n/a | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Unionist | Rt Hon. Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon | 12,982 | 57.8 | -18.7 | |
Liberal | Miss Hester Lloyd Holland | 6,912 | 30.7 | n/a | |
Labour | Grace Mary Colman | 2,597 | 11.5 | -12.0 | |
Majority | 6,070 | 27.1 | -22.9 | ||
Turnout | 70.8 | -8.9 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1930s[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Rt Hon. Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon | 20,277 | 84.9 | +27.1 | |
Labour | Grace Mary Colman | 3,608 | 15.1 | +3.6 | |
Majority | 16,669 | 69.8 | +42.7 | ||
Turnout | 71.8 | +1.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
- The Liberal candidate, Hester Holland withdrew on 14 Oct 1931
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rt Hon. Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon | 15,359 | 63.9 | ||
Liberal | Richard Hathaway Ellis | 8,688 | 36.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 6,671 | 27.7 | |||
Turnout | 24,047 | 68.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Rupert Arnold Brabner | 12,016 | 54.2 | -9.7 | |
Liberal | Frank Ongley Darvall | 9,577 | 43.2 | +7.1 | |
Independent | Harry St. John Bridger Philby | 576 | 2.6 | n/a | |
Majority | 2,439 | 11.0 | -16.8 | ||
Turnout | 62.4 | -5.9 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -8.4 |
- Philby was a candidate for the British People's Party.
Elections in the 1940s[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Harry Ripley Mackeson | 8,048 | 46.5 | -7.7 | |
Labour | David Graham Widdiscombe | 6,091 | 35.2 | n/a | |
Liberal | Arthur Dyke Beauchamp James | 3,152 | 18.2 | -25.0 | |
Majority | 1,957 | 11.3 | |||
Turnout | 73.3 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Notes[edit]
- ^ At the election of 1710, Fane and Shannon were returned as elected but, on petition, they were declared not to have been duly elected and Berners and Boteler were seated in their place.
- ^ Succeeded as baronet, January 1748.
- ^ Farnaby adopted the surname Radcliffe in 1783.
- ^ Styled Viscount Marsham from June 1801 (when his father was created Earl of Romney).
References[edit]
- Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "Hythe (1386–1421)". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Hythe (1509–1558)". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Hythe (1558–1603)". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Craig, F. W. S. (1969). British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications.
- Bibliography
- Beatson, Robert (1807). A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament, from the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
- Brunton, D.; Pennington, D. H. (1954). Members of the Long Parliament. London: George Allen & Unwin.
- Cobbett, William (1808). Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803. London: Thomas Hansard.
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913. London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. 1913.
- Craig, F. W. S. (1989). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services.
- Neale, John E. (1949). The Elizabethan House of Commons. London: Jonathan Cape.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)[self-published source][better source needed]