Carlton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Carlton
Carlton
Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
County	Nottinghamshire
Major settlements	Carlton
1950–1983
Seats	One
Created from	Broxtowe, Newark and Rushcliffe
Replaced by	Gedling and Sherwood

Carlton (UK Parliament constituency)

Former UK parliamentary constituency

Carlton was a constituency in Nottinghamshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election. It was then partly replaced by the new Gedling constituency.

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Election		Member	Party
	1950	Sir Kenneth Pickthorn	Conservative
	1966	Philip Holland	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished: see Gedling

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Kenneth Pickthorn	19,585	40.84
	Labour	Florence Paton	19,190	40.02
	Liberal	Cornelius Charles Kirk	9,176	19.14
Majority			395	0.82
Turnout			47,951	87.17
	Conservative win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth Pickthorn	24,429	49.81	+8.97
	Labour	Florence Paton	20,685	42.18	+2.16
	Liberal	Gerald Wortley H Parker	3,930	8.01	−11.13
Majority			3,744	7.63
Turnout			49,044
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth Pickthorn	27,521	57.1	+7.3
	Labour	Florence Paton	20,664	42.9	+0.7
Majority			6,857	14.2	+6.6
Turnout			48,185
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth Pickthorn	30,722	57.6	+0.5
	Labour	Philip Myers	22,645	42.4	−0.5
Majority			8,077	15.2	+1.0
Turnout			53,367
	Conservative hold		Swing

Carlton (UK Parliament constituency)

Carlton
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Nottinghamshire
Major settlements	Carlton
1950–1983
Seats	One
Created from	Broxtowe, Newark and Rushcliffe
Replaced by	Gedling and Sherwood^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth Pickthorn	27,896	46.9	−10.7
	Labour	Robert B Mellor	21,546	36.2	−6.2
	Liberal	Max G Payne	10,034	16.9	New
Majority			6,350	10.7	−4.5
Turnout			59,476
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Holland	28,635	45.6	−1.3
	Labour	Amos Lloyd Ramsden	24,589	39.2	+3.0
	Liberal	Max G Payne	9,570	15.2	−1.7
Majority			4,046	6.4	−4.3
Turnout			62,794	82.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Holland	39,840	59.6	+14.0
	Labour	Carl Bennett	27,043	40.4	+1.2
Majority			12,797	19.2	+12.8
Turnout			66,883	84.51	+2.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Holland	27,305	45.37	−14.23
	Labour	James Murray	20,147	33.58	−6.92
	Liberal	Donald Lawrence Lange	11,282	18.75	New
	National Front	Cyril Marriott	1,449	2.41	New
Majority			7,158	11.79	−7.21
Turnout			60,183	84.48	−0.03
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Holland	24,638	44.16	−1.21
	Labour	Dennis Pettitt	20,019	35.88	+2.41
	Liberal	Donald Lawrence Lange	9,859	17.67	−1.07
	National Front	Cyril Marriott	1,273	2.28	−0.13
Majority			4,619	8.28	−3.51
Turnout			55,789	77.74	−6.74
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.81

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Holland	31,762	52.56	+8.39
	Labour	Arthur Palmer	18,989	31.42	−4.46
	Liberal	John Frederick West	9,077	15.02	−2.65
	National Front	Michael John Watts	606	1.00	−1.28
Majority			12,773	21.14	+12.86
Turnout			60,434	78.90	+1.16
	Conservative hold		Swing	+6.43