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Northampton (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1974

Summary

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1974

Field	Value
name	Northampton
parliament	uk
year	1295
abolished	1918
type	borough
year2	1918
abolished2	1974
type2	borough
next2	Northampton North and Northampton South
seats	2
region	England
county	Northamptonshire
towns	Northampton

Northampton was a parliamentary constituency (centred on the town of Northampton), which existed until 1974.

It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England until 1707, the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800 and to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was reduced to one member for the 1918 general election. The constituency was abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was replaced by the new constituencies of Northampton North and Northampton South.

A former MP of note for the constituency was Spencer Perceval, the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1295–1640

1295: constituency established, electing two MPs

Parliament	First member	Second member
1377	Sir Gerard de Braybooke of Castle Ashby
1377	Sir Thomas Preston of Gretton
1378	Sir John Seton
1379	Sir Thomas Preston of Gretton
1380	Sir Thomas Preston of Gretton
1382	Giles St John of Plumpton
1386	William Spriggy	url= http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/northampton	title = History of Parliament	access-date= 2011-09-28}}
1388 (Feb)	Thomas Pirie	John Stotesbury
1388 (Sep)	John Honybourne	John Besford
1390 (Jan)	John Colingtree	John Sywell
1390 (Nov)
1391	William Begworth	John Stotesbury
1393	William Spriggy	Stephen Wappenham
1394
1395	Nicholas Horncastle	John Woodward
1397 (Jan)	Richard Stormsworth	Thomas Overton
1397 (Sep)
1399	John Loudham	John Spring
1401
1406	Henry Empingham	Thomas Wintringham
1407	John Rivell	John Temple
1410	Simon Dunstall	John Lincoln
1411	Richard Wems	William Rushden
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	Roger Maltman	Alexander Deyster
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)	Geoffrey Balde	John Hethersett
1415
1416 (Mar)	John Hendley	John Buckingham
1416 (Oct)
1417	William Clerk	Thomas Colley
1419	Thomas Stotesbury	Ralph Passenham
1420	William Maltman	William Harpole
1421 (May)	John Bernhill	John Colden
1421 (Dec)	John Spriggy	Stephen Kynnesman
1427	Thomas Compworth
1477–1478	Robert Pemberton
1510–1515	url= http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/northampton	title = History of Parliament	access-date= 2011-09-28}}
1523	John Parvyn	Thomas Doddington
1529	Lawrence Manley	Nicholas Rand
1536	?
1539	?
1542	?
1545	?
1547	Richard Wenman	Anthony Bryan
1553 (Mar)	George Tresham	William Chauncy
1553 (Oct)	Francis Morgan	Lawrence Manley
1554 (Apr)	Francis Morgan	John Horpool
1554 (Nov)	Henry Clerke	Ralph Freeman
1555	Nicholas Rand	John Balgye
1558	Thomas Colles	Edward Manley
1559 (Jan)	William Carvell	Edmund (or Edward) Kinwelmersh
1562–3	Lewis Montgomery	Ralph Lane
1571	Christopher Yelverton	William Lane	-
1572 (Apr)	Christopher Yelverton	John Spencer
1584 (Nov)	Sir Richard Knightley	Thomas Catesby
1586 (Sep)	Sir Richard Knightley	Peter Wentworth
1588 (Oct)	Peter Wentworth	Richard Knollys
1593	Valentine Knightley	Peter Wentworth
1597 (Oct)	Christopher Yelverton	Henry Yelverton
1601	Henry Hickman	Francis Tate
1604	Henry Yelverton	Edward Mercer
1614	Henry Yelverton	Francis Beale
1621–1622	Richard Spencer	Thomas Crewe
1624	Richard Spencer	Christopher Sherland
1625	Richard Spencer	Christopher Sherland
1626	Richard Spencer	Christopher Sherland
1628	Richard Spencer	Christopher Sherland
1629–1640	No Parliaments convened

MPs 1640–1918

Election	First member	First party	Second member	Second party
April 1640	Roundhead}}"		Richard Knightley	Parliamentarian
November 1640
December 1648	Knightley excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant	Tate not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653	Northampton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654		Peter Whalley		*Northampton had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate*
1656		Francis Harvey
January 1659		James Langham
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
March 1660		Francis Harvey
June 1660		Sir John Norwich, Bt.
April 1661		Francis Harvey
November 1661		Sir Charles Compton
1662		Sir James Langham, Bt.
March 1663		Sir William Dudley, Bt.
April 1663		Hon. Christopher Hatton
March 1664		Sir John Bernard
April 1664		Sir Henry Yelverton, Bt.
1670		Sir William Fermor
1678		Hon. Ralph Montagu
February 1679		Sir Hugh Cholmley, Bt.
August 1679		William Langham
1685		Richard Rainsford
1689		William Langham
1690		Sir Thomas Samwell, Bt.
1694		Sir Justinian Isham, Bt.
1695		Christopher Montagu
1698		William Thursby
1701		Thomas Andrew
1702		Sir Matthew Dudley, Bt.
1704		Francis Arundell
1705		George Montagu
1710		William Wykes
1715		William Wilmer
1722		Edward Montagu
1727		Hon. George Compton
1734		William Wilmer
1744		George Montagu
April 1754		Charles Montagu
December 1754		Hon. Charles Compton
1755		Richard Backwell
1759		Frederick Montagu
1761		Spencer Compton
1763		Lucy Knightley
1768		Vice-Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney
1769		Hon. Thomas Howe
1771		Wilbraham Tollemache
1774		Sir George Robinson, 5th Bt.
1780	Whigs (British political party)}}"		George Spencer	Whig{{cite book	last=Stooks Smith
1782	Tories (British political party)}}"		George Bingham	Tory
1784	Tories (British political party)}}"		Charles Compton	Tory	Whigs (British political party)}}"
1790	Whigs (British political party)}}"		Hon. Edward Bouverie	Whig
1796	Tories (British political party)}}"		Hon. Spencer Perceval	Tory
1810	Whigs (British political party)}}"		William Hanbury	Whig
1812	Tories (British political party)}}"		Spencer Compton	Tory
1818	Tories (British political party)}}"		Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt.	Tory
1820	Whigs (British political party)}}"		Sir George Robinson, 6th Bt.	Whig	Whigs (British political party)}}"
1830	Tories (British political party)}}"		Sir Robert Gunning, Bt.	Tory
1831	Whigs (British political party)}}"		Robert Vernon Smith	Whig
1832	Tories (British political party)}}"		Charles Ross	Tory
1834	Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Conservative
1837	Radicals (UK)}}"		Raikes Currie	Radical
1857	Radicals (UK)}}"		Charles Gilpin	Radical
1859	Liberal Party (UK)}}"		Liberal	Liberal Party (UK)}}"		Liberal
1859 by-election	Liberal Party (UK)}}"		Anthony Henley	Liberal
February 1874	Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Pickering Phipps	Conservative
October 1874 by-election	Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Charles Merewether	Conservative
1880	Liberal Party (UK)}}"		Henry Labouchère	Liberal	Liberal Party (UK)}}"
1891 by-election	Liberal Party (UK)}}"		Philip Manfield	Liberal
1895	Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Adolphus Drucker	Conservative
1900	Liberal Party (UK)}}"		John Greenwood Shipman	Liberal
1906	Liberal Party (UK)}}"		Herbert Paul	Liberal
Jan. 1910	Liberal Party (UK)}}"		Hastings Lees-Smith	Liberal	Liberal Party (UK)}}"
1918	Representation reduced to one member

MPs 1918–1974

Election	Member
1918	Coalition Liberal}}"	Charles McCurdy
1922	National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}}"	National Liberal
1923	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Margaret Bondfield
1924	Conservative Party (UK)}}"	Sir Arthur Holland
1928 by-election	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Cecil Malone
1931	Conservative Party (UK)}}"	Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller
1940 by-election	Conservative Party (UK)}}"	Spencer Summers
1945	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Reginald Paget
Feb 1974	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

|reg. electors =

After the election, a 13-day scrutiny was approved by the Mayor and tallies were revised to 1,570 for Robinson, 1,279 for Vernon Smith, 1,157 for Gunning, and 185 for Lyon. 188 votes were rejected.

|reg. electors = 2,497

|reg. electors = 2,178

|reg. electors = 2,079

Elections in the 1840s

|reg. electors = 1,997

|reg. electors = 1,867

Elections in the 1850s

Vernon Smith was appointed Secretary of State for War, requiring a by-election.

|reg. electors = 2,263

Vernon Smith was appointed President of the Board of Control, requiring a by-election.

|reg. electors = 2,375

|reg. electors = 2,526

Vernon Smith was raised to the peerage, becoming 1st Baron Lyveden, and causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1860s

|reg. electors = 2,620

|reg. electors = 6,621

Elections in the 1870s

|reg. electors = 6,829

Gilpin's death caused a by-election.

|reg. electors = 6,829

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 8,189

Bradlaugh was unseated after voting in the Commons before taking the Oath of Allegiance, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 8,185

Bradlaugh was expelled from the House of Commons due to his continuing prevention from taking the Oath, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 8,361

Bradlaugh resigned and sought election once more, after a resolution to exclude him from the precincts of the House of Commons was sought.

|reg. electors = 8,886

|reg. electors = 9,582

Elections in the 1890s

Bradlaugh's death caused a by-election. |reg. electors = 10,895

|reg. electors = 11,180

|reg. electors = 11,442

Elections in the 1900s

|reg. electors = 12,180

|reg. electors = 11,954

Elections in the 1910s

A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the summer of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place.

British Socialist Party: Ben Tillett

|reg. electors = 46,007

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

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 and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

Conservative:
Labour: Reginald Paget
British Union: Norah Elam

Elections in the 1940s

|reg. electors = 65,038

Elections in the 1950s

|reg. electors = 74,502

|reg. electors = 75,551

|reg. electors = 73,713 |reg. electors = 72,521

Elections in the 1960s

|reg. electors = 73,129

|reg. electors = 72,781

Elections in the 1970s

|reg. electors = 74.590

References

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D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) https://web.archive.org/web/20150904125310/http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1

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