Holland with Boston (UK Parliament constituency)

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Holland with Boston County constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1997
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Holland with Boston was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1997, when the constituency was abolished. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 4.1 Elections in the 1990s 4.2 Elections in the 1980s 4.3 Elections in the 1970s 4.4 Elections in the 1960s 4.5 Elections in the 1950s 4.6 Elections in the 1920s 5 See also 6 References

[edit] History

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[edit] Boundaries

In 1885-1918 the parliamentary borough of Boston returned one MP. The Lincolnshire county division of Spalding, in the south-east of the historic county, elected another MP. These two seats were combined to form Holland with Boston in 1918.

The new constituency had the same boundaries as the traditional sub-division of the historic county known as the Parts of Holland, which had become an administrative county in 1889.

In the 1974 redistribution of parliamentary seats the constituency was re-defined as comprising the Municipal Borough of Boston, Spalding Urban District and the Rural Districts of Boston, East Elloe, and Spalding.

The Parts of Holland County Council was abolished in 1974 and replaced by a Lincolnshire County Council. However the parliamentary boundaries continued to be based on the pre-1974 local authorities until 1983.

The 1983 redistribution defined the constituency as the Borough of Boston and some wards of the District of South Holland (Donington, Fleet, Gedney, Holbeach Hurn, Holbeach St John, Holbeach Town, Long Sutton, Moulton, Sutton Bridge, The Saints and Whaplode). All of the 1983 seat had been part of the pre-1983 constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	William Stapleton Royce	Labour
	1924 by-election	Arthur Wellesley Dean	Conservative
	1929 by-election	Sir James Blindell	Liberal
	1931		National Liberal
	1937 by-election	Sir Herbert Butcher	National Liberal
	1950		National Liberal & Conservative
	1966	Sir Richard Body	Conservative
1997		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Body	29,159	55.1	−2.7
	Labour	JD Hough	15,328	28.9	+8.5
	Liberal Democrat	N Ley	8,434	20.7	−4.8
Majority			13,831	26.1
Turnout			67,900	77.9	+5.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Body	27,412	57.8	+2.6
	Liberal	C Le Brun	9,817	20.7	−8.5
	Labour	JD Hough	9,734	20.4	+5.1
	Other	D James	405	0.8	N/A
Majority			17,595	37.1
Turnout			65,539	72.2	+1.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Body	24,962	55.2	−0.3
	Liberal	C Le Brun	13,226	29.2	+12.8
	Labour	JA Moore	6,970	15.4	−12.6
Majority			11,736	25.9
Turnout			63,562	71.0	−3.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Body	35,440	55.5	+7.9
	Labour	M Fox	17,908	28.0	−5.5
	Liberal	J Wright	10,480	16.4	−1.6
Majority			17,532	27.4
Turnout			85,578	74.5	+2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Body	28,145	47.6	+0.8
	Labour	M Cornish	19,461	33.5	+5.2
	Liberal	GR Stephenson	10,476	18.0	−6.0
Majority			8,684	14.9
Turnout			80,454	72.1	−8.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Body	30,561	47.6	−10.4
	Labour	M Cornish	18,180	28.3	−13.6
	Liberal	GR Stephenson	15,466	24.0	N/A
Majority			12,381	19.2
Turnout			79,775	80.4	+5.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1970: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Body	33,580	58.0	+7.7
	Labour	RNH Sackur	24,241	41.9	−7.8
Majority			9,339	16.1
Turnout			77,245	74.8	−0.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Body	26,683	50.3	−5.0
	Labour	R.H.Hickman	26,367	49.7	+5.1
Majority			316	0.6
Turnout			53,050	74.9	+1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1964: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Herbert Butcher	29,082	55.3	+1.8
	Labour	W Long	23,451	44.6	+11.7
Majority			5,631	10.7
Turnout			71,064	73.9
	National Liberal hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Herbert Butcher	29,013	53.5	+0.3
	Labour	JDT Williamson	17,839	32.9	−6.9
	Liberal	C Valentine	7,334	13.5	+3.1
Majority			11,174	20.6
Turnout			70,588	76.7
	National Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Herbert Butcher	28,412	53.2	−0.7
	Labour	WA Rippon	19,329	39.8	−3.6
	Liberal	C Valentine	5,581	10.4	N/A
Majority			9,083	17.0
Turnout			70,040	76.1
	National Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Herbert Butcher	31,683	57.9	+4.0
	Labour	JA Walters	22,994	42.0	+2.2
Majority			8,689	15.8
Turnout			69,453	78.7
	National Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1950: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Herbert Butcher*	30,336	53.9
	Labour	HW Lee	22,374	39.8
	Liberal	RD Blankley	3,500	6.2
Majority			7,962	14.1
Turnout			68,411	82.1
	National Liberal hold		Swing

*Stood as National Liberal & Conservative, from 1950 onwards.

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

By-election 1929: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Blindell	13,000	38.1	+18.4
	Labour	G.R.B. White	9,294	27.3	−5.5
	Conservative	F.J. Van den Berg	8,257	24.2	−23.3
	Agricultural Party	F.W. Dennis	3,541	10.4	N/A
Majority			3,706	10.8
Turnout			34092	75.6	−0.2
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	15.9

By-election 1924: Holland with Boston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Dean	12,907	39.6	−6.3
	Labour	Hugh Dalton	12,101	37.1	−17.0
	Liberal	R.P. Winfrey	7,596	23.3	N/A
Majority			806	2.5	N/A
Turnout			32,604	77.2	+8.4
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

[edit] See also

• Holland with Boston by-election, 1924
• Holland with Boston by-election, 1929
• Holland with Boston by-election, 1937

[edit] References

• http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk.htm Area Studies, UK: politics, elections and government in Britain
• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)
• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page