Louth was a

county constituency In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons. Within the United Kingdom there are five bodies with members elected by electoral districts called "constituenc ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

which returned one

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(MP) to the

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of the

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from

1885 Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – ...

until it was abolished for the 1983 general election. It should not be confused with the former Irish constituency of

County Louth (UK Parliament constituency) County Louth, otherwise known as Louth County or Louth, is a former parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1801 to 1885 it returned two Members of Par ...

. Between 1885 and 1918, its formal name was The East Lindsey (or Louth) Division of Lincolnshire, and it was sometimes referred to simply as East Lindsey.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Louth, Market Rasen, and Wragby, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Alford, Grimsby, and Horncastle. 1918–1950: The Borough of Louth, the Urban Districts of Mablethorpe and Market Rasen, and the Rural Districts of Caistor, Grimsby, and Louth. 1950–1974: The Boroughs of Louth and Cleethorpes, and the Rural Districts of Grimsby and Louth. 1974–1983: As prior but with redrawn boundaries.

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1914–15 A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the autumn of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place. *Liberal: Timothy Davies *Unionist:

Langton Brackenbury Henry Langton Brackenbury (26 April 1868 – 28 April 1920) was a British Conservative Party politician who served for two short periods as Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth in Lincolnshire. He was first elected at the general election in J ...

Elections in the 1920s

*endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939–40 A General Election was due to take place by the spring of 1940. By the autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place. *Conservative:

Arthur Heneage Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Pelham Heneage (11 July 1881 – 22 November 1971) was a British Conservative Party politician. In the First World War, Heneage served with the Royal Field Artillery. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order ...

*Liberal:

Alan Pryce-Jones Lt-Col. Alan Payan Pryce-Jones TD (18 November 1908 – 22 January 2000) was a British book critic, writer, journalist and Liberal Party politician. He was notably editor of ''The Times Literary Supplement'' from 1948 to 1959. Background Pryce-Jo ...

The Liberal Magazine 1939 *Labour: Jack H Franklin

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

References

* * ''The Constitutional Year Book for 1913'' (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Louth, Lincolnshire (Uk Parliament Constituency) Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1983 Louth, Lincolnshire