Louth was a
county constituency
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in
Lincolnshire
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which returned one
Member of Parliament (MP) to the
House of Commons
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of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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from
1885 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 is a former parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which was represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1801 to 1885 it returned two Members of Parliam ...
. 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
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
*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
See also
*
1920 Louth by-election
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1921 Louth by-election
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1969 Louth by-election
References
*
* ''The Constitutional Year Book for 1913'' (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
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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