Houghton-le-Spring (UK Parliament constituency)

Houghton-le-Spring
Houghton-le-Spring
	Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of Houghton-le-Spring in County Durham, boundaries 1974-83
County	County Durham
Major settlements	Houghton-le-Spring
1885–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Houghton & Washington and Easington[1]
Created from	South Durham

Houghton-le-Spring was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983.

Centred on the town of Houghton-le-Spring in the City of Sunderland, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. It was abolished in 1983, and replaced by the new constituency of Houghton and Washington.

Boundaries

1918–1950: The Urban District of Houghton-le-Spring, the Rural Districts of South Shields and Sunderland, and part of the Rural District of Houghton-le-Spring.

1950–1955: The Urban Districts of Houghton-le-Spring and Seaham, and the Rural District of Sunderland.

1955–1974: The Urban Districts of Houghton-le-Spring and Seaham, and the Rural District of Sunderland except the parts of the parishes of Ford, Herrington, Hylton, and Silksworth added to the County Borough of Sunderland by the Sunderland Extension Act 1950.

1974–1983: The Urban Districts of Hetton, Houghton-le-Spring, and Seaham, and in the Rural District of Easington the parishes of Burdon, Cold Hesledon, Dalton-le-Dale, East Murton, Seaton with Slingley, and Warden Law.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	John Wilson	Liberal
	1886	Nicholas Wood	Conservative
	1892	Henry Fenwick	Liberal
	1895	Robert Cameron	Liberal
	1913 by-election	Tom Wing	Liberal
	1918	Robert Richardson	Labour
	1931	Robert Chapman	Conservative
	1935	William Stewart	Labour
	1945	Bill Blyton	Labour
	1964	Tom Urwin	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

John Wilson

General election 1885: Houghton-le-Spring [2][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Lib-Lab	John Wilson	6,511	57.7	N/A
	Conservative	Nicholas Wood	4,767	42.3	N/A
Majority			1,744	15.4	N/A
Turnout			11,278	86.8	N/A
Registered electors			12,992
	Lib-Lab win (new seat)

General election 1886: Houghton-le-Spring [2][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Nicholas Wood	5,870	53.7	+11.4
	Lib-Lab	John Wilson	5,059	46.3	−11.4
Majority			811	74.	N/A
Turnout			10,929	84.1	−2.7
Registered electors			12,992
	Conservative gain from Lib-Lab		Swing	+11.4

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Houghton-le-Spring [2][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Henry Fenwick	6,256	52.6	+6.3
	Conservative	Nicholas Wood	4,823	40.6	−13.1
	Independent Liberal and Direct Veto	Jonathan Hargrove[n 1]	814	6.8	N/A
Majority			1,433	12.0	N/A
Turnout			11,893	86.7	+2.6
Registered electors			13,716
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+9.7

Robert Cameron

General election 1895: Houghton-le-Spring [2][4][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Robert Cameron	6,592	53.6	+1.0
	Conservative	Vincent Charles Stuart Wortley Corbett	5,711	46.4	+5.8
Majority			881	7.2	−4.8
Turnout			12,303	88.0	+1.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.4

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Houghton-le-Spring [2][4][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Robert Cameron	6,865	58.3	+4.7
	Conservative	Ralph Stapleton Ward-Jackson	4,917	41.7	−4.7
Majority			1,948	16.6	+9.4
Turnout			11,782	82.3	−5.7
Registered electors			14,317
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.7

General election 1906: Houghton-le-Spring [2][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Robert Cameron	9,429	72.2	+13.9
	Liberal Unionist	Roland Edmund Lomax Vaughan Williams	3,639	27.8	−13.9
Majority			5,790	44.4	+27.8
Turnout			13,068	83.2	+0.9
Registered electors			15,711
	Liberal hold		Swing	+13.9

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Houghton-le-Spring [5][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Robert Cameron	10,393	70.3	−1.9
	Conservative	Hugh Sidney Streatfield	4,382	29.7	+1.9
Majority			6,011	40.6	−3.8
Turnout			14,775	84.4	+1.2
Registered electors			17,504
	Liberal hold		Swing	−1.9

General election December 1910: Houghton-le-Spring [5][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Robert Cameron	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

Tom Wing

1913 Houghton-le-Spring by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Thomas Wing	6,930	43.6	N/A
	Unionist	Thomas Richardson	4,807	30.2	N/A
	Labour	William House	4,165	26.2	N/A
Majority			2,123	13.4	N/A
Turnout			15,902	83.6	N/A
Registered electors			19,032
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Liberal: Thomas Wing
Unionist:
Labour: W. P. Richardson

General election 14 December 1918: Houghton-le-Spring[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Robert Richardson	7,315	36.4	N/A
	Liberal	Thomas Wing	6,626	32.9	N/A
C	National Democratic	John Lindsley	6,185	30.7	N/A
Majority			689	3.5	N/A
Turnout			20,126	61.8	N/A
Registered electors			32,552
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Houghton-le-Spring[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Robert Richardson	14,611	51.9	+15.5
	Unionist	Walter William Shaw	7,555	26.9	N/A
	Liberal	John Edward Johnston	5,958	21.2	−11.7
Majority			7,056	25.0	+21.5
Turnout			28,124	78.4	+16.6
Registered electors			35,871
	Labour hold		Swing	+13.6

General election 1923: Houghton-le-Spring [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Robert Richardson	15,225	59.3	+7.4
	Liberal	Aaron Curry	10,445	40.7	+19.5
Majority			4,780	18.6	−6.4
Turnout			25,670	69.0	−9.4
Registered electors			37,224
	Labour hold		Swing	−6.1

General election 1924: Houghton-le-Spring [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Robert Richardson	17,857	57.8	−1.5
	Liberal	Aaron Curry	13,023	42.2	+1.5
Majority			4,834	15.6	−3.0
Turnout			30,880	79.6	+10.6
Registered electors			38,779
	Labour hold		Swing	−1.5

General election 1929: Houghton-le-Spring [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Robert Richardson	25,056	57.1	−0.7
	Liberal	Thomas Wing	10,267	23.4	−18.8
	Unionist	William George Pearson	8,545	19.5	N/A
Majority			14,789	33.7	+18.1
Turnout			43,868	80.3	+0.7
Registered electors			54,615
	Labour hold		Swing	+9.1

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Robert Chapman	25,549	52.95
	Labour	Robert Richardson	22,700	47.05
Majority			2,849	5.90
Turnout				82.78
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General election 1935: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	William Stewart	30,665	57.15
	Conservative	Robert Chapman	22,290	42.85
Majority			7,675	14.30
Turnout				82.04
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Election in the 1940s

General election 1945: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Billy Blyton	43,730	66.67
	Conservative	TB Martin	21,864	33.33
Majority			21,866	33.34
Turnout				76.87
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Billy Blyton	36,044	77.14
	Conservative	Beatrice Bolam	10,682	22.86
Majority			25,362	54.28
Turnout				87.22
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1951: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Billy Blyton	37,718	75.80
	Conservative	Beatrice Bolam	12,042	24.20
Majority			25,676	51.60
Turnout				86.61
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1955: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Billy Blyton	33,375	76.11
	Conservative	Thomas Edward Sydney Egerton	10,476	23.89
Majority			22,899	52.22
Turnout				79.49
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1959: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Billy Blyton	35,960	75.93
	Conservative	Andrew Robert Coghill Arbuthnot	11,398	24.07
Majority			24,562	51.86
Turnout				83.41
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Thomas Urwin	32,914	74.82
	Conservative	Peter Coles Price	11,076	25.18
Majority			21,838	49.64
Turnout				78.70
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1966: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Thomas Urwin	32,067	77.51
	Conservative	Frederick Howard Michael Craig-Cooper	9,304	22.49
Majority			22,763	55.02
Turnout				73.88
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Thomas Urwin	32,888	73.41
	Conservative	Frederick Howard Michael Craig-Cooper	11,914	26.59
Majority			20,974	46.81
Turnout				71.60
	Labour hold		Swing

General election February 1974: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas Urwin	23,263	76.89	+3.48
	Conservative	RC Ritchie	10,300	23.11	-3.48
Majority			23,963	53.77
Turnout				75.13
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.48

General election October 1974: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Thomas Urwin	29,699	68.44
	Liberal	W Robson	9,298	21.43
	Conservative	RC Ritchie	4,399	10.14
Majority			20,401	47.01
Turnout				72.44
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1979: Houghton-le-Spring
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Thomas Urwin	30,181	68.45
	Conservative	P Straw	9,105	20.65
	Liberal	J Ellis	4,479	10.16
	Workers Revolutionary	D Temple	326	0.74
Majority			21,076	47.08
Turnout				72.89
	Labour hold		Swing

Notes and References

Notes

Also a member of the United Kingdom Alliance

References

"'Houghton-le-Spring', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
The Liberal Year Book, 1907
Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 by FWS Craig

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[4] Also a member of the United Kingdom Alliance

[ElectionWeb74-1] "'Houghton-le-Spring', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016.

[The_Liberal_Year_Book,_1907-2] The Liberal Year Book, 1907

[craig1885-3] Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.

[ReferenceA-5] Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901

[ReferenceB-6] Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

[ReferenceC-7] British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 by FWS Craig