• Source: Cleveland (UK Parliament constituency)

      • Cleveland was a county constituency in the Langbaurgh Wapentake (also known as Cleveland), North Riding of Yorkshire, England.


      Electorate


      It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons, using the first past the post voting system. All elections were conducted with a secret ballot, which had been introduced under the Ballot Act 1872.
      The franchise was initially restricted, and extended on several occasions:

      The Representation of the People Act 1884 gave a vote to adult males who met a property qualification; women, and about 40% of men, had no vote
      The Representation of the People Act 1918 extended the vote to all adult males and to women over the age of 30 who met certain property qualifications
      The Representation of the People Act 1928 allowed women to vote from age 21, on the same terms as men
      The Representation of the People Act 1948 abolished the plural votes previously granted to electors who met a property qualification because of their business or shop premises
      The Representation of the People Act 1969 lowered the voting age to 18


      History


      The Cleveland constituency was created when the North Riding of Yorkshire constituency was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and Cleveland then covered the northern tip of the North Riding.
      In 1918 it was redefined in terms of local government areas, and covered part of Guisborough Rural District and the Middlesbrough Rural District, along with the urban districts of Eston, Guisborough, Hinderwell, Loftus, Redcar, Saltburn by the Sea and Skelton and Brotton. In 1948 it was redefined again to cover Eston, Guisborough, Loftus, Redcar, Saltburn and Marske by the Sea and Skelton and Brotton; the new boundaries were first used for the 1950 general election. As such it was a socially mixed constituency throughout its existence, containing working class Middlesbrough suburbs and ironstone mining villages as well as middle class resorts and agricultural communities.
      It returned its last Member of Parliament in 1970, by which time Cleveland district of Yorkshire's North Riding had been abolished in 1967, to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until it was abolished leading up to the February 1974 general election.
      It was replaced by the Redcar constituency and Cleveland & Whitby constituency.


      Members of Parliament




      Elections




      = Elections in the 1880s

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      = Elections in the 1890s

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      Pease's death causes a by-election.


      = Elections in the 1900s

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      = Elections in the 1910s

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      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;

      Liberal: Herbert Samuel
      Unionist: Park Goff
      Labour: Harry Dack


      = Elections in the 1920s

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      = Elections in the 1930s

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      = Elections in the 1940s

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      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 from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

      Conservative: Robert Tatton Bower
      Labour: William Mansfield
      Liberal: Matthew Robinson Shawcross


      = Elections in the 1950s

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      = Elections in the 1960s

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      = Elections in the 1970s

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      References



      Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

      Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)

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