Whitehaven (UK Parliament constituency)

Whitehaven
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	1832–1974: Cumberland 1974–1983: Cumbria
Major settlements	Whitehaven
1832–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Copeland
Created from	Cumberland

Whitehaven was a constituency centred on the town of Whitehaven in Cumberland, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was created in 1832 and renamed Copeland at the 1983 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1832	Matthias Attwood	Conservative
	1847	Robert Charles Hildyard	Conservative
	1857 by-election	George Lyall	Conservative
	1865	George Cavendish-Bentinck	Conservative
	1891 by-election	Sir James Bain	Conservative
	1892	Thomas Shepherd Little	Liberal
	1895	Augustus Helder	Conservative
	1906	William John Dalzell Burnyeat	Liberal
	Jan. 1910	John Arthur Jackson	Conservative
	Dec. 1910	Thomas Richardson	Labour
	1918	James Augustus Grant	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Thomas Gavan Duffy	Labour
	1924	Robert Hudson	Conservative
	1929	Morgan Philips Price	Labour
	1931	William Nunn	Conservative
	1935	Frank Anderson	Labour
	1959 by-election	Joseph Bede Symonds	Labour
	1970	Jack Cunningham	Labour
	1983	constituency renamed (with unchanged boundaries), see Copeland

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jack Cunningham	22,626	52.44
	Conservative	J. Somers	17,171	39.80
	Liberal	E. Akister	2,559	5.93
	Independent	W. Dixon	790	1.83
Majority			5,455	12.64
Turnout				81.74
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jack Cunningham	21,832	55.56
	Conservative	P.B. Vose	11,899	30.28
	Liberal	M. Gilbert	5,563	14.16
Majority			9,933	25.28
Turnout				77.10
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jack Cunningham	23,229	59.42
	Conservative	P.B. Vose	15,867	40.58
Majority			7,362	18.83
Turnout				77.50
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1970: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jack Cunningham	22,974	58.32
	Conservative	W.G. McKay	16,418	41.68
Majority			6,556	16.64
Turnout				78.27
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Bede Symonds	22,726	61.99
	Conservative	J.A. Kevill	13,935	38.01
Majority			8,791	23.98
Turnout				78.79
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1964: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Bede Symonds	23,267	60.11
	Conservative	Edmund Brudenell	15,440	39.89
Majority			7,827	20.22
Turnout				82.02
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Bede Symonds	22,783	57.77
	Conservative	H.J. Pedraza	16,653	42.23
Majority			6,130	15.54
Turnout				84.54
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Anderson	22,348	58.04
	Conservative	G.W. Iredell	16,154	41.96
Majority			6,194	16.09
Turnout				83.78
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Anderson	23,190	59.19
	Conservative	G.W. Iredell	15,990	40.81
Majority			7,200	18.38
Turnout				85.24
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1950: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Anderson	22,850	60.00
	Conservative	W. Nunn	15,233	40.00
Majority			7,617	20.00
Turnout				87.04
	Labour hold		Swing

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Anderson	18,568	61.10
	Conservative	W.O. Hill	11,821	38.90
Majority			6,747	22.20
Turnout				82.96
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Anderson	14,794	48.92
	Conservative	William Nunn	14,442	47.76
	Ind. Labour Party	Tom Stephenson	1,004	3.32
Majority			352	1.16
Turnout				86.98
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1931: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Nunn	16,286	53.33
	Labour	Morgan Philips Price	14,255	46.67
Majority			2,031	6.65
Turnout				89.62
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Whitehaven

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Morgan Philips Price	14,034	46.8
	Unionist	Robert Spear Hudson	12,382	41.3
	Liberal	Henry Darnley Naylor	3,558	11.9	n/a
Majority			1,652	5.5
Turnout
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1906: Whitehaven Electorate 2,945

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William John Dalzell Burnyeat	1,507	55.8
	Conservative	J. Robertson-Walker	1,194	44.2
Majority			313	11.6
Turnout			2,701	68.2
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Sources

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)