Hallamshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Hallamshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Riding of Yorkshire |
1885–1918 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Southern West Riding of Yorkshire |
Replaced by | Penistone, Rotherham and Wentworth |
Hallamshire was a Parliamentary constituency covering the Hallamshire district of England. The constituency was created in 1885 and abolished in 1918. The seat was a large geographical area which in the west included the moors of the Pennines (Howden Moors, Midhope Moors, Broom Read Moor, Bradfield Moor and Hallam Moor), but came down from the hills in the centre to include better farmland north of Sheffield around Ecclesfield. In the north-east it included part of the South Yorkshire coalfield and some mining villages. In the south, the residents of Sheffield who owned their freeholds could vote in this division.
For twenty years the
Boundaries
The constituency covered an area north and west of inner
.The Municipal Borough of Sheffield was also a Parliamentary Borough and so the only electors from that area entitled to vote in Hallamshire were those who were
This anomaly of the electoral system was ended in 1918. The remainder of the constituency formed the cores of both the Penistone and Wentworth constituencies in boundary changes made that year.
Members of Parliament
- 1885-1906: Sir Frederick Mappin, Liberal
- 1906-1918: Lib-Lab, then Labour
Election results
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Frederick Mappin
|
6,454 | 59.2 | ||
Conservative | Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam | 4,451 | 40.8 | ||
Majority | 2,003 | 18.4 | |||
Turnout | 10,905 | 82.8 | |||
Registered electors | 13,176 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Frederick Mappin
|
Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Frederick Mappin
|
Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Frederick Mappin
|
5,949 | 54.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Frank Hatchard | 5,054 | 45.9 | New | |
Majority | 895 | 8.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 11,003 | 76.0 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 14,483 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Frederick Mappin
|
6,688 | 57.5 | +3.4 | |
Conservative | Frank Hatchard | 4,938 | 42.5 | −3.4 | |
Majority | 1,750 | 15.0 | +6.8 | ||
Turnout | 11,626 | 74.5 | −1.5 | ||
Registered electors | 15,610 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +3.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lib-Lab | John Wadsworth | 8,375 | 55.2 | −2.3 | |
Conservative | Frederic Kelley | 6,807 | 44.8 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 1,568 | 10.4 | −4.6 | ||
Turnout | 15,182 | 83.9 | +9.4 | ||
Registered electors | 18,085 | ||||
Lib-Lab hold | Swing | −2.3 |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Wadsworth | 10,193 | 62.2 | +7.0 | |
Conservative | Thomas Sutton Timmis | 6,185 | 37.8 | −7.0 | |
Majority | 4,008 | 24.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 16,378 | 82.2 | −1.7 | ||
Registered electors | 19,935 | ||||
Labour gain from Lib-Lab | Swing | +7.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Wadsworth | 8,708 | 59.9 | −2.3 | |
Conservative | David Thurston Smith | 5,837 | 40.1 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 2,871 | 19.8 | −4.6 | ||
Turnout | 14,545 | 73.0 | −9.2 | ||
Registered electors | 19,935 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.3 |
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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: John Wadsworth
- Labour: Thomas Walter Grundy[2]
References
- ^ ISBN 9781349022984.
- Manchester Guardian, 24 June 1914
Sources
- Boundary Commission Report, 1885
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 by F. W. S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services, Chichester, 1977)
- Social Geography of British Elections 1885-1910 by Henry Pelling (Macmillan, London, 1967)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
- Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources Archived 15 December 2005 at the Wayback Machine (Election results since 1951)