Cleveland (UK Parliament constituency)

Cleveland
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–February 1974
Number of members	1
Replaced by	Cleveland and Whitby
Created from	North Riding of Yorkshire

Cleveland was a county constituency in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Electorate

It returned one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons, using the first past the post voting system. All elections were conducted with a secret ballot, which had been introduced under the Ballot Act 1872.

The franchise was initially restricted, and extended on several occasions:

The Representation of the People Act 1884 gave a vote to adult males who met a property qualification; women, and about 40% of men, had no vote
The Representation of the People Act 1918 extended the vote to all adult males and to women over the age of 30 who met certain property qualifications
The Representation of the People Act 1928 allowed women to vote from age 21, on the same terms as men
The Representation of the People Act 1948 abolished the plural votes previously granted to electors who met a property qualification because of their business or shop premises
The Representation of the People Act 1969 lowered the voting age to 18

History

Cleveland Constituency 1918-1948

The Cleveland constituency was created when the North Riding of Yorkshire constituency was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and Cleveland then covered the northern tip of the North Riding.

In 1918 it was redefined in terms of local government areas, and covered part of Guisborough Rural District and the Middlesbrough Rural District, along with the urban districts of Eston, Guisborough, Hinderwell, Loftus, Redcar, Saltburn by the Sea and Skelton and Brotton. In 1948 it was redefined again to cover Eston, Guisborough, Loftus, Redcar, Saltburn and Marske by the Sea and Skelton and Brotton; the new boundaries were first used for the 1950 general election. As such it was a socially mixed constituency throughout its existence, containing working class Middlesbrough suburbs and ironstone mining villages as well as middle class resorts and agricultural communities.

It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until it was abolished for the February 1974 general election.

It was replaced by the new Redcar and Cleveland & Whitby constituencies.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
1885		constituency created
	1885	Henry Fell Pease	Liberal
	1897 by-election	Alfred Edward Pease	Liberal
	1902 by-election	Herbert Samuel	Liberal
	1918	Sir Park Goff	Coalition Conservative
	1923	Sir Charles Walter Starmer	Liberal
	1924	Sir Park Goff	Unionist
	1929	William Thomas Mansfield	Labour
	1931	Robert Tatton Bower	Conservative
	1945	Octavius George Willey	Labour
	1952 by-election	Arthur Palmer	Labour
	1959	Wilfred Proudfoot	Conservative
	1964	James Tinn	Labour
Feb 1974		constituency abolished: see Cleveland & Whitby

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Henry Pease

General Election 1885: Cleveland^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Henry Fell Pease	6,948	70.9	n/a
	Conservative	Hon. Guy Cuthbert Dawnay	2,845	29.1	n/a
Majority			4,103	41.8	n/a
Turnout				83.1	n/a
	Liberal win (new seat)

General Election 1886: Cleveland^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Henry Fell Pease	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1890s

Arthur Dorman

General Election 1892: Cleveland^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Henry Fell Pease	4,397	52.1	n/a
	Conservative	Arthur John Dorman	4,049	47.9	n/a
Majority			348	4.2	n/a
Turnout				76.3	n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1895: Cleveland^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Henry Fell Pease	4,762	53.3	+1.2
	Conservative	Emil Hugo Oscar Robert Ropner	4,175	46.7	-1.2
Majority			587	6.6	+2.4
Turnout				81.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.2

Cleveland by-election, 1897^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Alfred Edward Pease	5,508	57.4	+4.1
	Conservative	Emil Hugo Oscar Robert Ropner	4,080	42.6	-4.1
Turnout				83.7	+2.4
Majority			1,428	14.8	+8.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.1

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Cleveland^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Alfred Edward Pease	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

Geoffrey Drage

Cleveland by-election, 1902^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Herbert Louis Samuel	5,834	60.6	n/a
	Conservative	Geoffrey Drage	3,798	39.4	n/a
Turnout				77.9	n/a
Majority			2,036	21.2	n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

Herbert Samuel

General Election 1906: Cleveland^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Herbert Louis Samuel	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

Cleveland by-election, 1909^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Herbert Louis Samuel	6,296	54.2	n/a
	Conservative	James Windsor Lewis	5,325	45.8	n/a
Majority				8.4	n/a
Turnout				83.5	n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Cleveland^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Herbert Louis Samuel	7,484	57.7
	Conservative	James Windsor Lewis	5,491	42.3
Majority			1,993	15.4
Turnout				87.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

General Election December 1910: Cleveland^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Herbert Louis Samuel	6,870	56.3	-1.4
	Conservative	James Windsor Lewis	5,343	43.7	+1.4
Majority			1,527	12.6	-2.8
Turnout				82.5	-5.1
	Liberal hold		Swing	-1.4

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;

Liberal: Rt Hon. Herbert Louis Samuel
Unionist: Park Goff
Labour: Harry Dack

Cleveland by-election, 1915^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Herbert Louis Samuel	7,312	83.4
	Independent	R Knight	1,453	16.6	n/a
Majority			5,859	66.8
Turnout				53.4
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1918
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Unionist	Sir Park Goff	8,701
	Labour	Harry Dack	8,610
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Herbert Louis Samuel	7,089
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Sir Park Goff	13,369	37.7
	Liberal	Sir Charles Walter Starmer	11,668	32.8
	Labour	Harry Dack	10,843	29.5
Majority
Turnout				4.9
	Unionist hold		Swing

Sir C. Starmer

General Election 1923: Cleveland ^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Sir Charles Walter Starmer	13,326	38.2	+5.4
	Unionist	Sir Park Goff	11,855	34.0	-3.7
	Labour	Robert Dennison	9,683	27.8	-1.7
Majority			1,471	4.2	9.1
Turnout				80.4
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+4.6

General Election 1924: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Sir Park Goff	16,578	43.6
	Labour	William Thomas Mansfield	11,153	29.4
	Liberal	Sir Charles Walter Starmer	10,260	27.0
Majority				14.2
Turnout				86.3
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1929: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	William Thomas Mansfield	16,938	36.3	+6.9
	Unionist	Sir Park Goff	15,255	32.6	-11.0
	Liberal	Sir Charles Walter Starmer	14,938	31.1	+4.1
Majority			1,683	3.7	17.9
Turnout
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Robert Tatton Bower	30,608	60.41
	Labour	William Thomas Mansfield	20,060	39.59
Majority			10,548	20.82
Turnout				85.92
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Robert Tatton Bower	26,508	52.72
	Labour	William Thomas Mansfield	23,776	47.28
Majority			2,732	5.43
Turnout				81.15
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939/40:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

Conservative: Robert Tatton Bower
Labour: William Thomas Mansfield
Liberal: Matthew Robinson Shawcross

General Election 1945: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Octavius George Willey	27,660	48.95
	Conservative	Robert Tatton Bower	19,739	34.93
	Liberal	Matthew Robinson Shawcross	9,108	16.12
Majority			7,921	14.02
Turnout				76.05
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Octavius George Willey	28,940	51.43
	Conservative	Edward Charles Peake	21,332	37.91
	Liberal	Arthur Laurence Braithwaite Childe	5,996	10.66
Majority			7,608	13.52
Turnout				85.79
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Octavius George Willey	31,237	54.81
	Conservative	Patrick Henry Bligh Wall	25,756	45.19
Majority			5,481	9.62
Turnout				85.11
	Labour hold		Swing

Cleveland by-election, 1952^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Arthur Montague Frank Palmer	25,985	54.09	-0.72
	Conservative	Patrick Henry Bligh Wall	22,064	45.92	+0.72
Majority			3,921	8.16	-1.46
Turnout			48.049
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Arthur Montague Frank Palmer	27,649	50.15
	Conservative	George Wilfred Proudfoot	27,468	49.84
Majority			181	0.33
Turnout				80.81
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	George Wilfred Proudfoot	30,445	51.40
	Labour	Arthur Montague Frank Palmer	28,790	48.60
Majority			1,655	2.79
Turnout				83.10
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	James Tinn	28,596	44.61
	Conservative	George Wilfred Proudfoot	24,124	37.63
	Liberal	John W Stevens	11,387	17.76
Majority			4,472	6.98
Turnout				83.59
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1966: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	James Tinn	34,303	53.64
	Conservative	George Wilfred Proudfoot	22,423	35.06
	Liberal	Michael Ford Pitts	7,229	11.30
Majority			11,880	18.58
Turnout				81.13
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Cleveland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	James Tinn	36,213	53.77
	Conservative	Peter Coles Price	31,130	46.23
Majority			5,083	7.55
Turnout				72.94
	Labour hold		Swing

References

↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 by Craig
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ The Times, 7 November 1902 p8
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ The Times House of Commons, 1955

Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)

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