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Ripon (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1868–1983

Field	Value
name	Ripon
parliament	uk
image	[[File:Ripon 1974 Location.svg	200px]]
caption	Boundary of Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1974–1983
year	1885
abolished	1983
type	County
elects_howmany	One
next	Skipton and Ripon, Leeds North West, Keighley and Shipley
year2	1295
abolished2	1885
type2	Borough
elects_howmany2	Two until 1868, then one
region	England
county	West Riding of Yorkshire

Ripon was a constituency sending members to the House of Commons of England, Great Britain and the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1983, centred on the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire.

History

Ripon was first represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, and also returned members in 1307 and 1337, but it was not permanently represented until 1553, after which it returned two Members of Parliament. It was a parliamentary borough consisting only of the town of Ripon itself until the Great Reform Act 1832; the right to vote was vested in the holders of the tightly controlled burgage tenements — count-of-head polls were accordingly rare — for, the last contested election in Ripon before the Reform Act 1832 was in 1715. By 1832 it was estimated that there were 43 men qualified to vote; the total of adult males over age 20 in the township in 1831 was recorded at 3,571.

Such a burgeoning middle class population when considered under the Reform Act 1832 made for Ripon a relatively major borough; its qualifying freehold-owning or more expensive house-leasing electorate were supplemented by such electors in neighbouring Aismunderby-cum-Bondgate. The sum of these male electors returned two members to each parliament. The Reform Act 1867 which came into force at the 1868 election reduced Ripon's representation from two MPs to one and enfranchised many of the under-represented high-growth areas of Britain.

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 abolished the borough of Ripon; instead the county constituency in which the town was placed as a result was named Ripon (strictly speaking, at first, "The Ripon Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire"), and this continued as a single member constituency, with intervening boundary changes until it was abolished before the 1983 general election. Until 1950 it included, as well as Ripon itself, the towns of Harrogate and Knaresborough; the post-1950 guise took in Ilkley and Otley.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The Borough of Ripon, the Sessional Divisions of Claro and Kirkby Malzeard, and the Liberty of Ripon.

1918–1950: The Boroughs of Ripon and Harrogate, the Urban District of Knaresborough, the Rural Districts of Knaresborough, Pateley Bridge, and Ripon, and part of the Rural District of Great Ouseburn.

1950–1983: The Borough of Ripon, the Urban Districts of Ilkley and Otley, and the Rural Districts of Ripon and Pateley Bridge, and Wharfedale.

Members of Parliament

Constituency re-created (1553)

MPs 1553–1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1553 (Oct)	Marmaduke Wyvill	url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/ripon	title= History of Parliament	publisher = History of Parliament Trust	access-date = 2011-10-14}}
1554 (Apr)	William Rastell	John Temple
1554 (Nov)	Thomas More II	Thomas Seckford
1555	John Holmes	Thomas Poley
1558	William Heath	Thomas Lewknor
1559	Francis Kempe	John Sapcote
1562–3	George Leighe	Richard Pratt
1571	Martin Birkhead	Anthony Roane
1572	Martin Birkhead	John Scott
1584	William Spencer	Gervase Lee
1586	William Spencer	Samuel Sandys
1588	Peter York	William Smith
1593	Anthony Wingfield	William Bennet
1597	Sir John Bennet	Christopher Perkins
1601	John Thornborough	Christopher Perkins
1604	Sir John Mallory	Sir John Bennet
1614	Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby	William Mallory
1621	Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby	William Mallory
1624	Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby	William Mallory
1625	Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby	William Mallory
1626	Thomas Best	Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby
1628	Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby	William Mallory
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

MPs 1640–1867

Year	First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		November 1640	William Mallory	Royalist
	September 1642	William Mallory disabled to sit - seat vacant
	January 1644	John Mallory disabled to sit - seat vacant
		1645	Sir Charles Egerton
	1647	Sir John Bourchier
	December 1648	Egerton excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
		1653	Ripon was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
		January 1659	Edmund Jennings
		May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
		April 1660	Henry Arthington
		1661	John Nicholas
	1673	Sir Edmund Jennings
	February 1679	Richard Sterne
	August 1679	Christopher Wandesford
		1685	Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet
		1689	Sir Jonathan Jennings
	1690	Sir Edmund Jennings
	1691	Jonathan Jennings
Tories (British political party)}}"		1695	John Aislabie	Tory
	1701	John Sharp
	1702	Sir William Hustler
Whigs (British political party)}}"		1705	John Aislabie	Tory, later Country Whig
	1715	The Viscount Castlecomer
	1719	William Aislabie I
Tories (British political party)}}"		1721	William Aislabie II	Tory
	1722	John Scrope
	1727	William Aislabie III
	1734	Thomas Duncombe
Whigs (British political party)}}"		1741	Hon. Henry Vane	Whig
	1747	Sir Charles Vernon
	1761	William Lawrence
	1768	Charles Allanson
Tories (British political party)}}"		1775	William Lawrence	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		1780	Frederick Robinson	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		1781	William Lawrence	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		1787	Sir John Goodricke, Bt	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		1789	Sir George Allanson-Winn, Bt	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		April 1798	John Heathcote	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		October 1798	Sir James Graham, Bt	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		1806	The Lord Headley	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		Tories (British political party)}}"		1807	F. J. Robinson	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		1826	Lancelot Shadwell	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		1827	Louis Hayes Petit	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		1828	Sir Robert Inglis	Tory
Tories (British political party)}}"		1829	George Spence	Tory
Whigs (British political party)}}"		Whigs (British political party)}}"		1831	Whig	Whig
Whigs (British political party)}}"		Whigs (British political party)}}"		1832	Thomas Staveley	Whig
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1835	Sir Charles Dalbiac	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1837	Sir Edward Sugden	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1841	Sir George Cockburn	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1843	Thomas Cusack-Smith	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1846	Hon. Edwin Lascelles	Conservative
Peelite}}"		1847	Sir James Graham, Bt	Peelite
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1852	William Beckett	Conservative
Whigs (British political party)}}"		Whigs (British political party)}}"		1857	John Ashley Warre	Whig
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1859	Liberal	Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1860	Reginald Vyner	Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1865	Sir Charles Wood	Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1866	Lord John Hay	Liberal
	1868	Representation reduced to one member

MPs 1868–1983

Election	Member	Party
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1868	Lord John Hay
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1871 by-election	Sir Henry Knight Storks
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1874	Earl de Grey
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1880	George Goschen
1885	Ripon parliamentary borough abolished, replaced by Ripon Division of the West Riding (county constituency)
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1885	William Harker
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1886	John Lloyd Wharton
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1906	H. F. B. Lynch
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Jan. 1910	Hon. Edward Wood
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1925 by-election	John Hills
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1939 by-election	Christopher York
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1950	Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1973 by-election	David Austick
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Feb 1974	Dr Keith Hampson
	1983	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

|reg. electors = 43

|reg. electors = 341 |swing |swing

|reg. electors = 383

|reg. electors = 424

Elections in the 1840s

|reg. electors = 373

Sugden resigned after being appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, causing a by-election.

Pemberton resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election,

Cusack-Smith resigned after being appointed Master of the Rolls in Ireland, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 350

Elections in the 1850s

|reg. electors = 353

|reg. electors = 339

|reg. electors = 337

Elections in the 1860s

Warre's death caused a by-election.

|reg. electors = 343

Lees retired before polling day.

|reg. electors = 348

Wood was elevated to the peerage becoming 1st Viscount Halifax and causing a by-election.

Hay was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, requiring a by-election.

Seat reduced to one member

|reg. electors = 1,132

Hay was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1870s

Hay resigned, causing a by-election. |reg. electors = 1,035

|reg. electors = 1,025

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 1,087

|reg. electors = 9,049

|reg. electors = 9,049

Elections in the 1890s

|reg. electors = 10,199

|reg. electors = 10,219

Elections in the 1900s

|reg. electors = 12,635

Elections in the 1910s

|reg. electors = 12,860 |reg. electors = 12,860 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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Unionist: Edward Wood
Liberal:

Elections in the 1920s

|reg. electors = 37,338 |reg. electors = 55,191

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

|reg. electors = 49,761

References

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
F. W. S. Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
F. W. S. Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949" (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969)
J Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by F. W. S. Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
Frederic A Youngs, jr, "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II" (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
"The Constitutional Year Book for 1913" (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)

References

"'Ripon', Feb 1974 - May 1983". Cognitive Computing Limited.
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10465813/cube/OCC_PAR1831_TOT University of Portsmouth and others.
"History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust.
"History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust.
Expelled from the House of Commons in 1721 for his role in the [[South Sea Bubble]].
(1845). "The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive". Simpkin, Marshall, & Co..
Lord Headley (in the [[peerage of Ireland]]) from 1797.
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(2002). "English Radicalism 1853-1886". Routledge.
(1973). "Radical Artisan: William James Linton 1812-97". Manchester University Press.
(28 July 1847). "The Yorkshire Elections". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser.
"WARRE, John Ashley (1787–1860), of West Newton Manor, nr. Taunton, Som.; West Cliff House, Ramsgate, Kent and 71 Belgrave Square, Mdx.".
(1834). "The Spectator, Volume 7". F. C. Westley.
(2013). "Politics in the Age of Peel: A Study in the Technique of Parliamentary Representation, 1830–1850". Faber & Faber.
(2 April 1857). "Election Intelligence". Bradford Observer.
"Ripon".
(3 July 1852). "Ripon Election". [[Yorkshire Gazette]].
(30 April 1859). "Election News". [[Leeds Intelligencer]].
(22 December 1860). "Ripon Election". [[Yorkshire Gazette]].
(22 December 1860). "Ripon Election". [[Manchester Times]].
(1977). "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885". Macmillan Press.
(14 June 1880). "Mr Francis Darwin". [[East Anglian Daily Times]].
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(19 June 1886). "Ripon Division". Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough.
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Debrett's House of Commons 1916.
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F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949.

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