Middlesbrough East (UK Parliament constituency)

Middlesbrough East was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Middlesbrough in North East England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

Middlesbrough East
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	North Riding of Yorkshire
1918–1974 (1974)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Middlesbrough
Created from	Middlesbrough

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Boundaries

1918–1950: The County Borough of Middlesbrough wards of Exchange, Grove Hill, Ormesby, St Hilda's, and Vulcan.

1950–1955: The County Borough of Middlesbrough except the wards of Acklam, Ayresome, and Linthorpe.

1955–1974: The County Borough of Middlesbrough wards of Berwick Hills, Cannon, Clairville, Exchange, Grove Hill, Newport, North Ormesby, St Hilda's, Thorntree, and Tollesby.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Penry Williams	Liberal
	1922	John Wesley Brown	Unionist
	1923	Penry Williams	Liberal
	1924	Ellen Wilkinson	Labour
	1931	Ernest Young	Liberal
	1935	Alfred Edwards	Labour
	1948		Independent
	1949		Conservative
	1950	Hilary Marquand	Labour
	1962	Arthur Bottomley	Labour
1974		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: Middlesbrough East[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Penry Williams	8,470	69.2	n/a
	Labour	Frederick William Carey	3,776	30.8	n/a
Majority			4,694	38.4	n/a
Turnout				48.4	n/a
	Liberal win

• Williams was issued with the Coalition Coupon, but repudiated it.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Middlesbrough East[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	John Wesley Brown	8,885	39.0	n/a
	Labour	Martin Connolly	7,607	33.4	+2.6
	Liberal	Penry Williams	6,295	27.6
Majority			1,278	5.6
Turnout				78.8	+30.4
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General election 1923: Middlesbrough East[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Penry Williams	9,241	40.6	+13.0
	Labour	Martin Connolly	7,712	33.9	+0.5
	Unionist	James Reid	5,790	25.5	-13.5
Majority			1,529	6.7
Turnout				77.3	-1.5
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing

General election 1924: Middlesbrough East[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ellen Wilkinson	9,574	38.5
	Unionist	John Warde-Aldam	8,647	34.7
	Liberal	Penry Williams	6,688	26.8
Majority			927	3.8
Turnout				83.7
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

General election 1929: Middlesbrough East[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ellen Wilkinson	12,215	41.3	+2.8
	Liberal	Ernest Young	9,016	30.6	+3.8
	Unionist	John Wesley Brown	8,278	28.1	-6.6
Majority			3,199	10.7	+6.9
Turnout				80.8	-2.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.5

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Middlesbrough East[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Ernest Young	18,409	60.4
	Labour	Ellen Wilkinson	12,080	39.6
Majority			6,329	20.8
Turnout				84.5
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing

General election 1935: Middlesbrough East[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Alfred Edwards	12,699	44.0
	Conservative	Benjamin Chetwynd-Talbot	12,632	43.7
	Liberal	Ernest Young	3,565	12.3
Majority			67	0.23
Turnout				81.14
	Labour gain from Liberal		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;

• Labour: Alfred Edwards
• Conservative: Benjamin Chetwynd-Talbot

General election 1945: Middlesbrough East[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Alfred Edwards	17,427	65.1
	Conservative	Benjamin Chetwynd-Talbot	9,352	34.9
Majority			8,075	30.2
Turnout				76.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Middlesbrough East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Hilary Marquand	29,185	62.77
	Conservative	Alfred Edwards	12,402	26.67
	Liberal	Russell Thomas	4,540	9.76
	Communist	N Levy	367	0.79
Majority			16,783	36.10
Turnout				82.90
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1951: Middlesbrough East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Hilary Marquand	31,277	66.51
	Conservative	Ralph Meredyth Turton	15,749	33.49
Majority			15,528	33.02
Turnout				80.93
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1955: Middlesbrough East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Hilary Marquand	27,036	62.42
	Conservative	Bernard A Connelly	16,278	37.58
Majority			10,758	24.84
Turnout				72.72
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1959: Middlesbrough East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Hilary Marquand	29,391	61.54
	Conservative	Derek R Chapman	18,365	38.46
Majority			11,026	23.09
Turnout				76.21
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

1962 Middlesbrough East by-election[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Arthur Bottomley	18,928	60.60	-0.94
	Liberal	George Scott	7,145	22.87	n/a
	Conservative	Frederick A. S. Wood	4,613	14.77	-23.69
	Union Movement	Jeffrey Hamm	550	1.76	n/a
Majority			11,783	37.72	+14.63
Turnout			31,236	52.1	-24.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1964: Middlesbrough East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Arthur Bottomley	29,432	69.50
	Conservative	Frederick A. S. Wood	12,917	30.50
Majority			16,515	39.00
Turnout				72.94
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1966: Middlesbrough East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Arthur Bottomley	28,404	75.10
	Conservative	Peter Darby	9,420	24.90
Majority			18,984	50.19
Turnout				68.27
	Labour hold		Swing

Election in the 1970s

General election 1970: Middlesbrough East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Arthur Bottomley	23,581	71.02
	Conservative	Nigel Neville Laville	9,623	29.98
Majority			13,958	42.04
Turnout				60.35
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
2. The Times House of Commons, 1964

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)