Brigg was a
county constituency centred on the town of
Brigg in
North Lincolnshire. It returned one
Member of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
(MP) to the
House of Commons of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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, elected by the
first-past-the-post
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...
voting system.
The constituency was created for the
1885 general election, and abolished for the
February 1974 general election when it was replaced by the new constituency of
Brigg and Scunthorpe.
Boundaries
1885–1918: The Borough of Great Grimsby, the Sessional Divisions of Barton-upon-Humber, Brigg, and Winterton, and part of the Sessional Division of Grimsby.
1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Barton-upon-Humber, Brigg, Broughton, Brumby and Frodingham, Roxby-cum-Risby, Scunthorpe, and Winterton, and the Rural District of Glanford Brigg.
1950–1974: The Borough of Scunthorpe, the Urban Districts of Barton-upon-Humber and Brigg, and the Rural District of Glanford Brigg.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
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:
Alfred Gelder
Sir William Alfred Gelder (12 May 1855 – 26 August 1941) was a British architect and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician.
Family and education
Gelder was born in the village of North Cave in the East Riding of Yorkshire, the son of William ...
*Unionist:
Thomas Jewell Bennett
Sir Thomas Jewell Bennett (16 May 1852 in Wisbech – 16 January 1925 in Hans Place, London) was a British journalist and Conservative Party politician. He is most notable as an editor of ''The Times of India'', as well as its principal propriet ...
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
See also
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1948 Brigg by-election
The 1948 Brigg by-election was a by-election held on 24 March 1948 for the British House of Commons constituency of Brigg in Lincolnshire.
The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the constituency's Labour Party Member of Parliamen ...
References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brigg (Uk Parliament Constituency)
Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire (historic)
Borough of North Lincolnshire
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1974
Brigg