Arundel (UK Parliament constituency)
Arundel | |
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Former Borough constituency | |
Replaced by | West Sussex |
Arundel was twice a
Great Reform Act.[1]
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The second incarnation was broader, reaching to
Boundary Commission in the 1974 boundary changes, and existed until 1997. This Arundel seat elected only one member. The territory previously covered by Arundel was split between Arundel & South Downs and Bognor Regis & Littlehampton
constituencies.
Members of Parliament
1332-1640
1640-1832
1832-1868
Year | Member[15] | Party | |
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1832 | Lord Dudley Stuart | Whig[17][18] | |
1837 | Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel | Whig[17][19] | |
1851 | Edward Strutt | Whig[20][21][22][23] | |
1852 | Lord Edward Fitzalan-Howard |
Whig[24] | |
1859 | Liberal
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1868 | Constituency abolished |
Arundel County Constituency (1974-1997)
Election | Member[15] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Sir Michael Marshall | Conservative | |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Arundel and South Downs & Bognor Regis and Littlehampton |
Elections
Elections in the 1830s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Dudley Stuart | Unopposed | |||
Tory | John Atkins | Unopposed | |||
Whig hold | |||||
Tory hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tory | John Atkins | 85 | 49.4 | N/A | |
Whig | Dudley Stuart | 85 | 49.4 | N/A | |
Radical | Godfrey Webster | 2 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 83 | 48.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 87 | N/A | |||
Tory hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Whig hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Dudley Stuart | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 351 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Dudley Stuart | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 360 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Henry Fitzalan-Howard | 176 | 62.6 | N/A | |
Whig | Dudley Stuart | 105 | 37.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 71 | 25.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 281 | 87.3 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 322 | ||||
Whig hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1840s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Henry Fitzalan-Howard | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 261 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Henry Fitzalan-Howard | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 221 | ||||
Whig hold |
Elections in the 1850s
FitzAlan-Howard's
resignation in protest at the passing of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851 caused a by-election.[26]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Edward Strutt | Unopposed | |||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Edward Fitzalan-Howard | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 208 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Edward Fitzalan-Howard | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 199 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Edward Fitzalan-Howard | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 196 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Elections in the 1860s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Edward Fitzalan-Howard | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 174 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Marshall | 37,655 | 57.1 | ||
Liberal | John Rex Kingsbury | 17,712 | 26.9 | ||
Labour | Ben Pimlott | 10,597 | 16.1 | ||
Majority | 19,943 | 30.2 | |||
Turnout | 65,964 | 79.6 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Marshall | 34,215 | 56.2 | −0.9 | |
Liberal | John Rex Kingsbury | 15,404 | 25.3 | −1.6 | |
Labour | Michael Ewart Stedman | 11,268 | 18.5 | +2.4 | |
Majority | 18,811 | 30.9 | +0.7 | ||
Turnout | 60,887 | 73.0 | −6.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Marshall | 43,968 | 65.0 | +8.8 | |
Liberal | John Rex Kingsbury | 13,208 | 19.5 | −5.8 | |
Labour | John Nigel Tizard | 10,509 | 15.5 | −3.0 | |
Majority | 30,760 | 35.5 | +4.6 | ||
Turnout | 67,685 | 73.9 | +0.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +7.3 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Marshall | 31,096 | 59.6 | −5.4 | |
Liberal | James Walsh | 15,391 | 29.5 | +10.0 | |
Labour | Gareth Rees | 4,302 | 8.2 | −7.3 | |
Conservative for Corporal Punishment | John Wadman | 1,399 | 2.7 | New | |
Majority | 15,705 | 30.1 | -5.4 | ||
Turnout | 52,188 | 69.7 | −4.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −7.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Marshall | 34,356 | 61.3 | +1.7 | |
Liberal | James Walsh | 15,476 | 27.6 | −1.9 | |
Labour | Peter Slowe | 6,177 | 11.0 | +2.8 | |
Majority | 18,880 | 33.7 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 56,009 | 71.2 | +1.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.8 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Marshall | 35,405 | 58.0 | −3.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Walsh | 15,542 | 25.5 | −2.1 | |
Labour | Roger Nash | 8,321 | 13.6 | +2.6 | |
Liberal | Denise Renson | 1,103 | 1.8 | New | |
Green | Robert Corbin | 693 | 1.1 | New | |
Majority | 19,863 | 32.5 | −1.2 | ||
Turnout | 61,064 | 77.0 | +5.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.6 |
See also
Notes and references
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- ^ "Arundel". History of Parliament Online (1422-1504). Retrieved 27 March 2019. (currently unavailable)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Arundel". History of Parliament Online (1509-1558). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Arundel". History of Parliament Online (1558-1603). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ "Arundel". History of Parliament Online (1604-1629). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ "Arundel". History of Parliament Online (1640-1660). Retrieved 27 March 2019.(currently unavailable )
- ^ "Arundel". History of Parliament Online (1660-1690). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ "Arundel". History of Parliament Online (1690-1715). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ "Arundel". History of Parliament Online (1715-1754). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ "Arundel". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ "Arundel". History of Parliament Online (1790-1820). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ "Arundel". History of Parliament Online (1820-1832). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ a b c Josiah Clement Wedgwood; Anne Holt (1936). History of Parliament...: 1439-1509. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 63–.
- ^ Stanley T. Bindoff, The House of Commons|| 1509-1558, vol. 4, p. 9.
- ^ a b c d Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 3)
- ^ Downes was elected after a disputed return at the by-election which followed the death of Garton
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. p. 77 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "The General Election". Morning Post. 24 July 1847. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Dod's Parliamentary Companion. p. 123 – via Google Books.
- ^ Pickard, Willis (Winter 2010–11). "The 'Member for Scotland': Duncan McLaren and the Liberal Dominance of Victorian Scotland" (PDF). Journal of Liberal History. 69: 22.
- ISBN 9781315685021.
- ISBN 9780199211951.
- ^ "Wednesday & Thursday's Posts". Stamford Mercury. 11 April 1851. p. 2 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Horsham Election". Brighton Gazette. 29 June 1848. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13916. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011.
Sources
- Election results, 1974 - 1997 Archived 5 May 2004 at the Wayback Machine
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography (entry on Sir Nicholas Pelham)
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
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