Haltemprice (UK Parliament constituency)

For the similarly named current constituency, see Haltemprice and Howden (UK Parliament constituency).

Haltemprice
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1955–1983
Number of members	one

Kingston upon Hull, Haltemprice
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1950–1955
Number of members	one

Haltemprice (which from 1950-1955 was officially known as Kingston upon Hull, Haltemprice) was a constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire, a traditional sub-division of the historic county of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.

It was the constituency of the fictional ultra-right Tory MP, Alan B'Stard, in The New Statesman, a TV series which began after the actual constituency was abolished in 1983.

Boundaries

1950-1955: The constituency comprised two wards of the County Borough of Kingston upon Hull (Pickering, and St. Andrew's) and the Urban District of Haltemprice.

1955-1983: The constituency lost the Kingston upon Hull wards (which were transferred to Kingston upon Hull West). It gained the Municipal Borough of Beverley and the Rural District of Beverley (from the former Beverley constituency).

In 1983, after considerable local government changes, most of Haltemprice became a new seat of Beverley. The remainder of the constituency contributed 11.6% of the new Boothferry seat.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1950	Richard Law	Conservative
	1954 by-election	Sir Patrick Wall	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	34,525	55.8
	Liberal	V. Bingham	17,148	29.4
	Labour	J. G. Lowe	8,846	15.1
Majority			15,272	26.1
Turnout				83.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	28,206	44.3
	Liberal	R. Walker	16,545	29.0
	Labour	L. Cross	12,362	21.6
Majority			11,661	20.4
Turnout				74.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	31,720	46.3
	Liberal	R. Walker	19,896	31.8
	Labour	L. Cross	11,031	17.6
Majority			11,824	18.9
Turnout				82.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1970: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	30,042	53.6
	Labour	C. M. Denton	15,862	28.3
	Liberal	S. C. Haywood	10,129	18.0
Majority			14,180	25.3
Turnout				74.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	25,566	54.6
	Labour	P. Clarke	13,017	27.8
	Liberal	S. Burnley	8,277	17.7
Majority			12,549	26.8
Turnout				76.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1964: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	26,131	56.2
	Labour	P. Allison	10,360	22.3
	Liberal	S. Burnley	9,986	21.5
Majority			15,771	33.9
Turnout				79.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	26,102	60.1
	Labour	D. N. Bancroft	9,750	22.5
	Liberal	W. I. Cooper	7,562	17.4	N/A
Majority			16,352	37.7
Turnout				80.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	26,162	68.9
	Labour	H. Roberts	11,820	31.1
Majority			16,352	37.7
Turnout				74.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Haltemprice by-election, 1954

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	16,107
	Labour	C. W. Bridges	9,974
Majority			6,133
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Kingston-upon-Hull Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Law	27,167	58.1
	Labour	C. W. Bridges	19,584	41.9
Majority			7,583	16.2
Turnout				82.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1950: Kingston-upon-Hull Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Law	23,482	49.6	N/A
	Labour	T. L. A. Taylor	18,156	38.3	N/A
	Liberal	Albert Burrell	5,723	12.1	N/A
Majority			5,326	11.3	N/A
Turnout				85.1	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Sources

• 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)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)