The Urban Districts of Holme Cultram and Wigton, the Rural Districts of Brampton, Carlisle, and Longtown, and part of the Rural District of Wigton. (Carlisle, Brampton and Longtown rural districts merged in 1930 into the Border Rural District)
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;
north, cumberland, parliament, constituency, north, cumberland, also, cumberland, northern, parliamentary, constituency, cumberland, which, returned, member, parliament, house, commons, parliament, united, kingdom, elected, first, past, post, system, election,. North Cumberland also Cumberland Northern 1 2 was a parliamentary constituency in Cumberland which returned one Member of Parliament MP to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom elected by the first past the post system of election North CumberlandFormer County constituencyfor the House of Commons1918 1950SeatsoneCreated fromEskdale and PenrithReplaced byPenrith and The BorderThe constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3 1 Election in the 1910s 3 2 Election in the 1920s 3 3 Elections in the 1930s 3 4 Election in the 1940s 4 ReferencesBoundaries editThe Urban Districts of Holme Cultram and Wigton the Rural Districts of Brampton Carlisle and Longtown and part of the Rural District of Wigton Carlisle Brampton and Longtown rural districts merged in 1930 into the Border Rural District Members of Parliament editYear Member Whip1918 Christopher Lowther Unionist1921 Independent Parliamentary Group1922 Donald Howard Unionist1926 Sir Fergus Graham Unionist1935 Wilfrid Roberts Liberal1950 Constituency abolishedElection results editElection in the 1910s edit General election 14 December 1918 Cumberland North 3 Party Candidate Votes C Unionist Christopher Lowther UnopposedUnionist win new seat C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government Election in the 1920s edit General election 1922 Cumberland North 3 Party Candidate Votes Unionist Donald Howard 8 815 50 8 N ALiberal Geoffrey Howard 8 544 49 2 NewMajority 271 1 6 N ATurnout 17 359 79 9 N ARegistered electors 21 714Unionist hold Swing N AGeneral election 1923 Cumberland North 3 Party Candidate Votes Unionist Donald Howard 9 288 50 6 0 2Liberal Richard Durning Holt 9 070 49 4 0 2Majority 218 1 2 0 4Turnout 18 358 83 2 3 3Registered electors 22 075Unionist hold Swing 0 2General election 1924 Cumberland North 3 Party Candidate Votes Unionist Donald Howard 10 586 54 2 3 6Liberal Richard Durning Holt 6 821 34 9 14 5Labour B Brooke 2 125 10 9 NewMajority 3 765 19 3 18 1Turnout 19 532 86 0 2 8Registered electors 22 717Unionist hold Swing 9 11926 North Cumberland by election 3 Party Candidate Votes Unionist Fergus Graham 8 867 47 8 6 4Liberal Richard Durning Holt 6 871 37 1 2 2Labour H W McIntyre 2 793 15 1 4 2Majority 1 996 10 7 8 6Turnout 18 331 82 0 4 0Registered electors 22 607Unionist hold Swing 4 3General election 1929 Cumberland North 3 Party Candidate Votes Unionist Fergus Graham 10 392 44 9 9 3Liberal Richard Durning Holt 9 661 41 7 6 8Labour C A O Donnell 3 092 13 4 2 5Majority 731 3 2 16 1Turnout 23 145 83 7 2 3Registered electors 27 653Unionist hold Swing 8 1Elections in the 1930s edit General election 1931 Cumberland North 3 Party Candidate Votes Conservative Fergus Graham 12 504 52 7 7 8Liberal Wilfrid Roberts 11 227 47 3 5 6Majority 1 277 5 4 2 2Turnout 23 781 84 6 0 9Conservative hold SwingGeneral election 1935 Cumberland North 3 Party Candidate Votes Liberal Wilfrid Roberts 12 521 51 9 0 8Conservative Fergus Graham 11 627 48 1 0 8Majority 894 3 8 N ATurnout 24 148 83 9 0 7Liberal gain from Conservative SwingGeneral 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 Liberal Wilfrid Roberts Conservative Election in the 1940s edit General election 1945 Cumberland North 3 Party Candidate Votes Liberal Wilfrid Roberts 12 053 50 4 1 5Conservative Ronald Nicholson Carr 11 855 49 6 1 5Majority 198 0 83 3 0Turnout 23 908 75 7 8 2Liberal hold SwingReferences editLeigh Rayment s Historical List of MPs Constituencies beginning with C part 6 Cumberland Northern PDivCon Vision of Britain MPs for Cumberland Northern Hansard Millbank a b c d e f g h i British parliamentary election results 1918 1949 Craig Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title North Cumberland UK Parliament constituency amp oldid 1176778334, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,