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Lincoln
Borough constituency
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Lincoln shown within Lincolnshire, and Lincolnshire shown within England
Created: 1265
MP: Gillian Merron
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
County: Lincolnshire
EP constituency: East Midlands

Lincoln is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

With the splitting of the City of York constituency at the next general election, Lincoln will be the oldest constituency in continuous existence in the United Kingdom, having been established in 1265.

It has been a bellwether constituency since October 1974, having voted for the winning party in each election since that time. This is despite it previously being a relatively safe seat for the Labour Party.

It was represented for five years by the future Cabinet minister Margaret Jackson, later Margaret Beckett; she has gone on to represent Derby South since 1983.

Contents

Boundaries

The constituency, as its name suggests, covers the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire. It also includes a number of surrounding villages.

Members of Parliament

MPs before 1660

Thomas Lister, the regicide, was chosen as M.P. for Lincoln in 1647, replacing John Broxholme who had died. He survived Pride's Purge (the military coup that ejected from parliament MPs that did not support the army) and continued as the city's MP until 1653.[1]

MPs 1660–1886

Election Member Party Member Party
1660 John Monson Sir Thomas Meres
1661 Sir Robert Bolles, Bt
1664 Sir John Monson
1675 Henry Monson
1681 Sir Thomas Hussey, Bt
1685 Henry Monson
1689, January Sir Christopher Nevile
1689, May Sir Edward Hussey, Bt
1690 Sir John Bolles, Bt.
1695 William Monson
1698 Sir Edward Hussey, Bt
1701, January Sir Thomas Meres
1701, December Sir Edward Hussey, Bt
1702 Sir Thomas Meres
1705 Thomas Lister
1710 Richard Grantham
1713 John Sibthorpe
1715 Sir John Tyrwhitt, Bt Richard Grantham
1722 Sir John Monson
1727 Charles Hall
1728 Sir John Tyrwhitt, 5th Bt
1734 Charles Monson Coningsby Sibthorpe
1741 Sir John Tyrwhitt, 6th Bt
1747 Coningsby Sibthorpe
1754 George Monson John Chaplin
1761 Coningsby Sibthorpe
1768 Thomas Scrope Constantine John Phipps[2]
1774 The Viscount Lumley Robert Vyner
1780 Sir Thomas Clarges, Bt
1783 John Fenton-Cawthorne[3]
1784 Richard Lumley-Savile
1790 The Lord Hobart[4]
1796, 14 May George Rawdon
1796, 25 May Richard Ellison
1800 Humphrey Sibthorp
1806 William Monson
1808 The Earl of Mexborough
1812 John Nicholas Fazakerley Sir Henry Sullivan
1814 Coningsby Waldo-Sibthorpe
1818 Ralph Bernal
1820 Robert Percy Smith
1822 John Williams
1826 John Nicholas Fazakerley Charles Delaet Waldo Sibthorp
1830 John Fardell
1831 George Fieschi Heneage
1832 Edward Lytton Bulwer[5]
1835 Charles Delaet Waldo Sibthorp Conservative
1841 William Rickford Collett
1847 Charles Seely [6]
1848 by-election Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse
1852 George Fieschi Heneage
1856 by-election Gervaise Tottenham Waldo Sibthorp Conservative
1861 by-election Charles Seely Liberal
1862 by-election John Bramley-Moore Conservative
1865 Edward Heneage[7] Liberal
1868 John Hinde Palmer Liberal
1874 Edward Chaplin Conservative
1880 John Hinde Palmer Liberal
1884 by-election Joseph Ruston Liberal

MPs 1885–present

Election Member Party
1885 Joseph Ruston Liberal
1886 Liberal Unionist
1886 Frederick Harold Kerans Conservative
1892 William Crosfield Liberal
1895 Charles Hilton Seely Liberal Unionist
1906 Charles Henry Roberts Liberal
1918 Alfred Thomas Davies Coalition Conservative
1924 Robert Arthur Taylor Labour
1931 Walter Sydney Liddall Conservative
1945 George Deer Labour
1950 Geoffrey de Freitas Labour
1962 by-election Dick Taverne Labour
1972 - 1973 vacant
1973 by-election Dick Taverne (re-elected) Lincoln Democratic Labour Association
Oct 1974 Margaret Jackson later Beckett Labour
1979 Kenneth Carlisle Conservative
1997 Gillian Merron Labour

Election results

General Election 2010: [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Karl McCartney
Labour Gillion Merron
Liberal Democrat Reginald Shore
General Election 2005: Lincoln
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gillian Merron 16,723 45.4 -8.5
Conservative Karl McCartney 12,110 32.9 +1.7
Liberal Democrat Lisa Gabriel 6,715 18.2 +5.5
UKIP Nicholas Smith 1,308 3.5 +1.2
Majority 4,613 12.5
Turnout 36,856 56.5 +0.5
Labour hold Swing 5.1
General Election 2001: Lincoln
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gillian Merron 20,003 53.9 -1.0
Conservative Christine-Anne Talbot 11,583 31.2 +0.2
Liberal Democrat Lisa Gabriel 4,703 12.7 +1.8
UKIP Rodger Doughty 836 2.3 N/A
Majority 8,420 22.7
Turnout 37,125 56.0 -15.0
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1997: Lincoln
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gillian Merron 25,563 54.9
Conservative Tony Brown 14,433 31.0
Liberal Democrat Lisa Gabriel 5,048 10.8
Referendum Party J. Ivory 1,329 2.9
Natural Law A. Myers 175 0.4
Majority 11,130
Turnout 71.1
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
General Election 1992: Lincoln
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth Carlisle 28,792 46.1
Labour Nick Butler 26,743 42.8
Liberal Democrat David Harding-Price 6,316 10.1
Liberal S. Wiggin 603 1.0
Majority 2,049
Turnout 79.2
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1987: Lincoln
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth Carlisle 27,097 46.5
Labour Nick Butler 19,614 33.7
Social Democrat P. Zentner 6,316 10.1
RRPRC T. B. Kyle 232 0.4
Majority 7,483 12.8
Turnout 75.6
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1983: Lincoln
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth Carlisle 25,244 46.4
Labour M. Withers 14,958 27.5
Social Democrat F. Stockdale 13,631 25.1
Independent G. Blades 523 1.0
Majority 10,286 18.9
Turnout 74.6
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1979: Lincoln
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth Carlisle 17,777 41.8
Labour Margaret Jackson 17,175 40.4
Liberal K. Melton 5,638 13.3
Democratic Labour F. Stockdale 1,743 4.1
National Front J. Noble 523 1.0
Revolutionary Reform T. Kyle 77 0.2
Majority 602 1.4
Turnout 77.0
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
General Election October 1974: Lincoln
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Margaret Jackson 14,698 37.1
Democratic Labour Dick Taverne 13,714 34.6
Conservative P. M. Moran 11,223 28.3
Majority 984 2.5
Turnout 74.8
Labour gain from Democratic Labour Swing
General Election February 1974: Lincoln
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Labour Dick Taverne 14,780 35.6
Labour Margaret Jackson 13,487 32.5
Conservative P. M. Moran 13,299 32.0
Majority 1,293 3.1
Turnout 79.1
Democratic Labour gain from Labour Swing
Lincoln by-election, 1973
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Labour Dick Taverne 21,967
Labour John Dilks 8,776
Conservative Jonathan Guinness 6,616
Democratic Conservative Reginald Simmerson 198
Majority Rule Malcolm Waller 100
Independent Jean Justice 81
Majority 13,191
Turnout
Democratic Labour gain from Labour Swing
General Election 1970: Lincoln
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Dick Taverne 20,090 51.0
Conservative Richard Alexander 15,340 39.0
Independent G. T. Blades 3,937 10.0
Majority 4,750 12.1
Turnout 74.4
Labour hold Swing

See also

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ^ Stark, Adam (1810). The history of Lincoln; Appendix. A Stark. p. 26.  
  2. ^ Constantine Phipps later succeeded to the peerage as the 2nd Baron Mulgrave
  3. ^ John Fenton-Cawthorne was expelled from the House of Commons on 2 May 1796
  4. ^ Robert Hobart was known as Robert Hobart until 1793, and as Lord Hobart from 1793 until he acceded to the peerage in 1804 as the 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire
  5. ^ Edward Lytton Bulwer was known as Bulwer-Lytton from 1844, and in 1866 became the 1st Baron Lytton
  6. ^ The election in 1847 of Charles Seely was declared void on 10 March 1848
  7. ^ Edward Heneage was later enobled as Baron Heneage
  8. ^ ukpollingreport

Sources

  • Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
  • Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 187. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.  
  • Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 137. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.  
  • Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 172. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.  
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Coordinates: 53°14′N 0°32′W / 53.23°N 0.54°W / 53.23; -0.54








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