Haltemprice (UK Parliament constituency)

For the similarly named current constituency, see Haltemprice and Howden (UK Parliament constituency).

Haltemprice
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
1955–1983
Seats	one
Replaced by	Beverley and Boothferry

Kingston upon Hull, Haltemprice
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
1950–1955
Seats	one
Created from	Holderness and Howdenshire

Haltemprice (which from 1950 to 1955 was officially known as Kingston upon Hull, Haltemprice) was a constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire, a traditional sub-division of the historic county of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.

Boundaries

1950–1955: The Urban District of Haltemprice, and the County Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull wards of Pickering and St Andrew's.

1955–1983: The Municipal Borough of Beverley, the Urban District of Haltemprice, and the Rural District of Beverley. The two Kingston-upon-Hull wards were transferred to the Hull West constituency.

In the 1983 redistribution, which reflected the major local government boundary changes of 1974, this constituency disappeared. Most of it became the new seat of Beverley, while the remainder of the constituency contributed 11.6% of the new Boothferry seat.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1950	Richard Law	Conservative	Resigned 1954 on being raised to the peerage
	1954 by-election	Patrick Wall	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Kingston-upon-Hull Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Law	23,482	49.6
	Labour	T. L. Addy Taylor	18,156	38.3
	Liberal	Albert Burrell	5,723	12.1
Majority			5,326	11.3
Turnout			47,361	85.1
	Conservative win (new seat)

General election 1951: Kingston-upon-Hull Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Law	27,167	58.1	+8.5
	Labour	Charles W. Bridges	19,584	41.9	+3.6
Majority			7,583	16.2	+4.9
Turnout			46,751	82.8	−2.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

1954 Haltemprice by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	16,107	61.8	+3.7
	Labour	Charles W. Bridges	9,974	38.2	−3.7
Majority			6,133	23.6	+7.4
Turnout			26,081
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1955: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	26,162	68.9	+11.8
	Labour	Harry Roberts	11,820	31.1	−11.8
Majority			14,342	37.8	+21.6
Turnout			37,982	74.8	−8.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1959: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	26,102	60.1	−8.8
	Labour	David Nicholson Bancroft	9,750	22.5	−8.6
	Liberal	W. Ivor Cooper	7,562	17.4	New
Majority			16,352	37.6	−0.2
Turnout			43,414	80.5	+5.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	26,131	56.2	−3.9
	Labour	Peter Allison	10,360	22.3	−0.2
	Liberal	Sydney Burnley	9,986	21.5	+4.1
Majority			15,771	33.9	−3.7
Turnout			46,477	79.5	−1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1966: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	25,566	54.6	−1.6
	Labour	Phyllis Clarke	13,017	27.8	+5.5
	Liberal	Sydney Burnley	8,277	17.7	−3.8
Majority			12,549	26.8	−7.1
Turnout			46,860	76.5	−3.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	30,042	53.6	−1.0
	Labour	Christopher M. Denton	15,862	28.3	+0.5
	Liberal	Stuart C. Haywood	10,129	18.0	+0.3
Majority			14,180	25.3	−1.5
Turnout			56,033	74.8	−1.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election February 1974: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	31,720	50.6	−3.0
	Liberal	Robert Walker	19,896	31.8	+13.8
	Labour	Laurie Cross	11,031	17.6	−10.7
Majority			11,824	18.9	−6.4
Turnout			62,647	82.9	+8.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election October 1974: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	28,206	49.3	−1.3
	Liberal	Robert Walker	16,566	29.0	−2.8
	Labour	Laurie Cross	12,383	21.7	+4.1
Majority			11,640	20.3	+1.4
Turnout			57,155	74.9	−8.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1979: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	34,525	55.8	+6.5
	Liberal	Robert Walker	14,637	23.6	−5.4
	Labour	H.J. Elcock	12,743	20.6	−1.1
Majority			19,888	32.2	+11.9
Turnout			61,509	77.3	+2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

In popular culture

Haltemprice was the constituency of the fictional ultra-right Tory MP, Alan B'Stard, in The New Statesman, a TV series which began after the actual constituency was abolished in 1983. In the first episode of the show, B'Stard wins the election in a landslide, after cutting the brake lines on his Labour and SDP opponents' cars, nearly killing them. To add insult to (literal) injury, both of these opponents finish behind Screaming Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Loony Party, which gets more votes then Labour or SDP combined.

1987 general election: Haltemprice

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alan Beresford B'Stard	31,756	76.9
	Monster Raving Loony	Screaming Lord Sutch	5,019	12.2
	Labour	William Richard Hanslon	3,237	7.8
	Alliance	Martin Cyril Roeper	1,265	3.1
Majority			26,737	64.7
Turnout			41,277
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sources

• 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)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)