Grantham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Grantham
Grantham
Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
County	Lincolnshire
Major settlements	Grantham
1918–1997
Seats	One
Replaced by	Sleaford & North Hykeham, and Grantham & Stamford
1885–1918
Seats	One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
1468–1885
Seats	Two
Type of constituency	Borough constituency

Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1997

Grantham was a Parliamentary constituency in Lincolnshire, England.

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The constituency was created in 1468 as a parliamentary borough which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until the union with Scotland, and then to the Parliament of Great Britain until the Act of Union 1800 established the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The parliamentary borough had its representation reduced to one MP in 1885, and was finally abolished in 1918, the name transferring to a new county division which elected one MP. The county constituency was abolished for the 1997 election, and the area formerly covered by this constituency is now mostly in Sleaford and North Hykeham. Grantham became part of the new constituency of Grantham and Stamford.

The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies proposes to re-establish the seat in its revised proposal.^[1]

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Year	First member	Second member
1491	John Mordaunt
1510–1523	No names known ^[2]
1529	William Hussey	Francis Hall^[2]
1536	?
1539	?
1542	?
1545	Sir Edward Warner	Edmund Hall^[2]
1547		Edmund Hall^[2]
1553 (Mar)		Thomas Hussey^[2]
1553 (Oct)		James Wallis^[2]
1554 (Apr)	Thomas Hussey	Richard Disney^[2]
1554 (Nov)	Roger Johnson	Richard Sharpe^[2]
1555	George Williams	William Porter^[2]
1558	Henry Savile	Anthony Thorold^[2]
1559 (Jan)	Thomas Randolph	William More^[3]
1562–3	Roger Manners	William Cooke^[3]
1571	William Killigrew	Arthur Hall^[3]
1572	John Vaughan	Arthur Hall^[3]^[4]
1584 (Nov)	Arthur Hall	William Thorold^[3]
1586 (Oct)	Sir Henry Bagenall, sat for Anglesey, repl. by William Ashby	Robert Markham^[3]
1588–9	Richard More	William Armyn^[3]
1593	Thomas Horsman	Francis Neale^[3]
1597 (Oct)	Thomas Horsman	Francis Neale^[3]
1601 (Oct)	Oliver Manners	Thomas Horsman^[3]
1604	Sir George Manners	Sir Thomas Horsman
1614	Sir George Reynell	Richard Tufton
1621	Sir William Armyne	Sir Clement Cotterell
1624	Sir George Manners	Sir Clement Cotterell
1625	Sir George Manners	Sir William Airmine
1626	John Wingfield	Edward Stirmin
1628–1629	Thomas Hatcher	Alexander Moor

		First Member^[5]	First Party	Second Member^[5]	Second Party
	April 1640	Sir Edward Bashe		Henry Pelham
	November 1640	Thomas Hussey	Royalist	Henry Pelham	Parliamentarian
	1641	Sir William Airmine	Parliamentarian	Henry Pelham	Parliamentarian
	December 1648	Sir William Airmine	Parliamentarian	Pelham excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
	1653	Grantham was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
	1654	William Bury		Grantham had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
	1656	William Ellys
	January 1659	Thomas Skipwith		Sir William Ellys
	May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
	April 1660	Thomas Skipwith		Sir John Newton
	1661	Sir William Thorold
	1678	Sir Robert Markham
	1679	Sir William Ellys
	1685	Thomas Harrington		John Thorold
	1689	Sir John Brownlow		Sir William Ellys
	1697	Sir John Thorold
	Jan. 1701	Thomas Baptist Manners
	Nov. 1701	Richard Ellys
	1705	Marquess of Granby
	1711	Sir John Thorold
	1713	Sir John Thorold		Sir John Brownlow
	1715	Edward Rolt		John Heathcote
	1722	Francis Fisher		The Viscount Tyrconnel
	1727	Sir Michael Newton		The Viscount Tyrconnel
	1741	Sir Michael Newton		Marquess of Granby
	1743	Sir John Cust		Marquess of Granby
	1754	Sir John Cust		Lord George Manners
	1770	Francis Cust
	1774	Sir Brownlow Cust
	1776	Peregrine Cust
	1780	Francis Cockayne-Cust		George Manners-Sutton	Tory^[6]
	1792	Philip Yorke
	1793	Simon Yorke	Tory^[6]
	1802	Thomas Thoroton		Sir William Earle Welby, Bt
	1806			Russell Manners	Whig^[6]
	1807			Sir William Earle Welby, Bt	Tory^[6]
	1812	Robert Percy Smith
	1818	Edward Cust	Tory^[6]

	March 1820			James Hughes	Whig^[6]
July 1820	Sir Montague Cholmeley, 1st Bt	Whig^[6]
	1826	Frederick Tollemache	Tory^[6]	Montague Cholmeley	Whig^[6]
	1830	Glynne Welby		Montague Cholmeley
	1831			James Hughes
	1832			Hon. Algernon Tollemache	Tory^[6]
	1834		Conservative^[6]	Hon. Algernon Tollemache	Conservative^[6]
	1837			Hon. Frederick Tollemache	Conservative^[6]
	1852			Lord Montagu Graham	Conservative
	1857	William Welby	Conservative	Hon. Frederick Tollemache	Peelite^[7]^[8]^[9]
	1859			Hon. Frederick Tollemache	Liberal
	1865			John Thorold	Conservative
	1868 by-election	Edmund Turnor		John Thorold	Conservative
	1868	Sir Hugh Cholmeley, Bt	Liberal	Hon. Frederick Tollemache	Liberal
	1874	Sir Hugh Cholmeley, Bt		Henry Cockayne-Cust	Conservative
	1880	John William Mellor		Charles Savile Roundell	Liberal
	1885	representation reduced to one member

	Member^[5]	Party
1885	John William Mellor	Liberal
1886	Malcolm Low	Conservative
1892	Henry Lopes	Conservative
1900	Arthur Priestley	Liberal
1918	Edmund Royds	Coalition Conservative
1922	Robert Pattinson	Liberal
1923	Victor Warrender	Conservative
1942 by-election	Denis Kendall	Independent
1950	Eric Smith	Conservative
1951	Joseph Godber
1979	Douglas Hogg
1997	constituency abolished: see Grantham and Stamford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	Glynne Welby	547	39.0
	Whig	Montague Cholmeley	469	33.5
	Tory	Frederick Tollemache	385	27.5
Turnout			864	c. 86.4
Registered electors			c. 1,000
Majority			78	5.5
	Tory hold		Swing
Majority			84	6.0
	Whig hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Glynne Welby	426	28.5	−10.5
	Whig	James Hughes	408	27.3	−6.2
	Tory	Algernon Tollemache	378	25.3	N/A
	Tory	Felix Tollemache	283	18.9	N/A
Turnout			842	c. 84.2	c. −2.2
Registered electors			c. 1,000
Majority			18	1.2	−4.3
	Tory hold
Majority			30	2.0	−4.0
	Whig hold

Grantham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

MPs 1468–1640

MPs 1640–1885

MPs 1885–1997

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1850s

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

See also

Notes and references

Sources

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Grantham
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Lincolnshire
Major settlements	Grantham
1918–1997
Seats	One
Replaced by	Sleaford & North Hykeham, and Grantham & Stamford
1885–1918
Seats	One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
1468–1885
Seats	Two
Type of constituency	Borough constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Algernon Tollemache	388	41.6	+16.3
	Tory	Glynne Welby	303	32.5	+4.0
	Whig	Montague Cholmeley	241	25.9	−1.4
Majority			62	6.6	+5.4
Turnout			650	93.1	c. +8.9
Registered electors			698
	Tory hold		Swing	+8.5
	Tory gain from Whig		Swing	+2.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Algernon Tollemache	351	41.2	−0.4
	Conservative	Glynne Welby	351	41.2	+8.7
	Whig	George Frederick Holt^[12]	149	17.5	−8.4
Majority			202	23.7	+17.1
Turnout			559	83.8	−9.3
Registered electors			667
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	+6.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Glynne Welby	398	39.9	−1.3
	Conservative	Frederick Tollemache	308	30.9	−10.3
	Whig	Robert Turner	291	29.2	+11.7
Majority			17	1.7	−22.0
Turnout			582	87.0	+3.2
Registered electors			669
	Conservative hold		Swing	−3.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	−8.1

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Glynne Welby	Unopposed
	Conservative	Frederick Tollemache	Unopposed
Registered electors			691
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Glynne Welby	483	40.7	*N/A*
	Conservative	Montagu Graham	375	31.6	*N/A*
	Peelite	Frederick Tollemache^[13]^[14]	329	27.7	N/A
Majority			46	3.9	N/A
Turnout			594 (est)	76.7 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			774
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Welby	472	40.2	−0.5
	Peelite	Frederick Tollemache	393	33.5	+5.8
	Conservative	Montagu Graham	308	26.3	−5.3
Turnout			587 (est)	79.3 (est)	+2.6
Registered electors			740
Majority			79	6.7	+2.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.7
Majority			85	7.2	N/A
	Peelite gain from Conservative		Swing	+5.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Thorold	432	37.5	*N/A*
	Conservative	William Welby	404	35.1	*N/A*
	Liberal	Frederick Tollemache	315	27.4	N/A
Majority			89	7.7	N/A
Turnout			733 (est)	97.1 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			755
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmund Turnor	374	55.6	−17.0
	Liberal	Hugh Cholmeley	299	44.4	+17.0
Majority			75	11.2	+3.5
Turnout			673	89.1	−8.0
Registered electors			755
	Conservative hold		Swing	−17.0

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Frederick Tollemache	Unopposed
	Liberal	Hugh Cholmeley	Unopposed
Registered electors			2,018
	Liberal hold
	Liberal gain from Conservative

General election 1892: Grantham^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Lopes	1,296	50.6	−0.2
	Liberal	Thomas Chatfeild Clarke^[17]	1,263	49.4	+0.2
Majority			33	1.2	−0.4
Turnout			2,559	95.0	+13.2
Registered electors			2,693
	Conservative hold		Swing	−0.2

General election 1895: Grantham^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Lopes	1,507	56.4	+5.8
	Liberal	Samuel Danks Waddy	1,167	43.6	−5.8
Majority			340	12.8	+11.6
Turnout			2,674	92.3	−2.7
Registered electors			2,896
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.8

General election 1906: Grantham^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Priestley	1,663	51.7	+1.0
	Conservative	Henry Brassey	1,554	48.3	−1.0
Majority			109	3.4	+2.0
Turnout			3,217	95.1	+7.9
Registered electors			3,383
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.0

General election January 1910: Grantham^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Priestley	1,848	52.0	+0.3
	Conservative	Geoffrey Henry Julian Skeffington Smyth	1,703	48.0	−0.3
Majority			145	4.0	+0.6
Turnout			3,551	97.4	+2.3
Registered electors			3,647
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hugh Cholmeley	1,055	36.1	*N/A*
	Conservative	Henry Cockayne-Cust	965	33.1	*New*
	Liberal	John William Mellor	899	30.8	N/A
Turnout			1,942 (est)	88.3 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			2,199
Majority			90	3.0	N/A
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			66	2.3	N/A
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John William Mellor	1,329	30.3	−0.5
	Liberal	Charles Savile Roundell	1,304	29.8	−6.3
	Conservative	Henry Cockayne-Cust	915	20.9	+4.3
	Conservative	Charles Brinsley Marlay^[15]	835	19.1	+2.5
Majority			389	8.9	+5.9
Turnout			2,192 (est)	91.7 (est)	+3.4
Registered electors			2,390
	Liberal hold		Swing	−4.4
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	−2.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John William Mellor	1,377	54.9	−5.2
	Conservative	Alfred Welby	1,131	45.1	+5.1
Majority			246	9.8	+0.9
Turnout			2,508	87.0	−4.7 (est)
Registered electors			2,883
	Liberal hold		Swing	−5.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Malcolm Low	1,197	50.8	+5.7
	Liberal	John William Mellor	1,161	49.2	−5.7
Majority			36	1.6	N/A
Turnout			2,358	81.8	−5.2
Registered electors			2,883
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+5.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Priestley	1,347	50.7	+7.1
	Conservative	Henry Lopes	1,309	49.3	−7.1
Majority			38	1.4	N/A
Turnout			2,656	87.2	−5.1
Registered electors			3,046
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+7.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Priestley	1,730	50.5	−1.5
	Conservative	Herbert Guy Snowden	1,697	49.5	+1.5
Majority			33	1.0	−3.0
Turnout			3,427	94.0	−3.4
Registered electors			3,647
	Liberal hold		Swing	−1.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Edmund Royds	9,972	48.4	−1.1
	Liberal	Robert Pattinson	8,701	42.2	−8.3
	Independent Labour and Agriculturalist	William Bilton Harris	1,927	9.4	New
Majority			1,271	6.2	N/A
Turnout			20,600	58.1	−35.9
Registered electors			35,462
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+3.6
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Pattinson	11,723	41.4	−0.8
	Unionist	Edmund Royds	11,295	39.8	−8.6
	Labour	John Henry Jones	5,332	18.8	New
Majority			428	1.6	N/A
Turnout			28,350	79.5	+21.4
Registered electors			35,655
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+3.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Victor Warrender	12,552	43.5	+3.7
	Liberal	Robert Pattinson	10,819	37.6	−3.8
	Labour	Montague William Moore	5,440	18.9	+0.1
Majority			1,733	5.9	N/A
Turnout			28,811	79.1	−0.4
Registered electors			36,444
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+3.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Victor Warrender	14,746	49.5	+6.0
	Liberal	Alexander Lyle-Samuel	7,730	26.0	−11.6
	Labour	Montague William Moore	7,279	24.5	+5.6
Majority			7,016	23.5	+17.6
Turnout			29,755	80.4	+1.3
Registered electors			37,021
	Unionist hold		Swing	+8.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Victor Warrender	16,121	40.8	−8.7
	Liberal	R Hamilton Brown	12,023	30.4	+4.4
	Labour	Montague William Moore	11,340	28.7	+4.2
Majority			4,098	10.4	−13.1
Turnout			39,484	81.9	+1.5
Registered electors			48,216
	Unionist hold		Swing	−6.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Victor Warrender	27,164	69.2	+28.4
	Labour	Montague William Moore	12,115	30.8	+2.1
Majority			15,049	38.4	+28.0
Turnout			39,279	79.5	−2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Victor Warrender	22,194	58.1	−11.1
	Labour	Montague William Moore	16,009	41.9	+11.1
Majority			6,185	16.2	−22.2
Turnout			38,203	74.2	−5.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Denis Kendall	11,758	50.8	*New*
	Conservative	Arthur Longmore	11,391	49.2	−8.9
Majority			367	1.6	N/A
Turnout			23,149	42.6	−31.6
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Denis Kendall	27,719	58.2	*N/A*
	Conservative	George Arthur Worth	12,206	25.6	−32.5
	Labour	Thomas Sansby Bavin	7,728	16.2	−25.7
Majority			15,513	32.6	N/A
Turnout			47,653	75.9	+1.7
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Eric Smith	19,195	41.33
	Labour	Albert Edward Millett	14,457	31.13
	Independent	Denis Kendall	12,792	27.54
Majority			4,738	10.20	N/A
Turnout			46,444
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Godber	20,712	43.47
	Labour	Albert Edward Millett	18,540	38.91
	Liberal	Denis Kendall	8,396	17.62	New
Majority			2,172	4.56
Turnout			47,648
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Godber	24,188	50.8	+7.3
	Labour	Woodrow Wyatt	21,813	45.8	+6.9
	Liberal	Reginald Clifford Gaul	1,624	3.4	−14.2
Majority			2,375	5.0	+0.4
Turnout			47,625
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Godber	27,482	56.8	+6.0
	Labour	Thomas Skeffington-Lodge	20,867	43.2	−2.6
Majority			6,615	13.6	+8.6
Turnout			48,349	81.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Godber	27,634	55.9	−0.9
	Labour	Peter Horton	21,770	44.1	+0.9
Majority			5,864	11.8	−1.8
Turnout			49,404	78.8	−3.1
	Conservative hold		Swing