Berwick and Haddington (UK Parliament constituency)

Berwick and Haddington
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland Berwickshire, East Lothian
1918–1950
Number of members One
Replaced by Berwick and East Lothian

Berwick and Haddington was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918, when it replaced the separate Berwickshire and Haddingtonshire constiuencies, until it was renamed Berwick and East Lothian for the 1950 general election. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency covered the counties of Berwickshire and East Lothian.

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1918 John Deans Hope Coalition Liberal
1922 Walter Waring National Liberal
1923 Robert Spence Labour
1924 Chichester de Windt Crookshank Unionist
1929 George Sinkinson Labour
1931 John McEwen Unionist
1945 John James Robertson Labour
1950 constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Harold Tennant
General Election 1918: Berwick and Haddington [1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Coalition Liberal 8,584 n/a
Labour R.W. Foulis 4,783 n/a
Liberal Rt Hon. Harold John Tennant 2,567 n/a
Majority n/a
Turnout n/a
Coalition Liberal win

Elections in the 1920s

Walter Waring
J.D. Hope
General Election 1922: Berwick and Haddington [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
National Liberal Walter Waring 6,342 31.9
Labour Robert Spence 5,842 29.3
Liberal William Henderson Pringle 4,422 22.2
Independent Liberal John Deans Hope 3,300 16.6
Majority 500 2.6
Turnout 19,906
National Liberal hold Swing n/a
General Election 1923: Berwick and Haddington [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Robert Spence 8,576
Unionist Chichester de Windt Crookshank 8,508 n/a
Liberal Walter Waring 6,084
Majority
Turnout
Labour gain from National Liberal Swing
General Election 1924: Berwick and Haddington [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Chichester de Windt Crookshank 11,745 45.9
Labour Robert Spence 8,882 34.7
Liberal William Henderson Pringle 4,986 19.5
Majority
Turnout 25,613
Unionist gain from Labour Swing
Sir James Greig
General Election 1929: Berwick and Haddington[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour George Sinkinson 11,761 37.5 +2.8
Unionist John Helias Finnie McEwen 11,435 36.5 -9.4
Liberal Sir James William Greig 8,132 26.0 +6.5
Majority 1.0 12.2
Turnout 31,328
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +6.1

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Berwick and Haddington[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist John Helias Finnie McEwen 25,169 73.5
Labour George Sinkinson 9,089 26.5
Majority 16,080 46.9
Turnout 34,258 74.8
Unionist gain from Labour Swing
General Election 1935: Berwick and Haddington [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist John Helias Finnie McEwen 19,839 58.1
Labour John James Robertson 14,299 41.9
Majority 5,540 16.2
Turnout 34,138 71.9
Unionist hold Swing

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Berwick and Haddington[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour John James Robertson 19,037 54.52
Unionist John Helias Finnie McEwen 15,880 45.48
Majority 3,157 9.04
Turnout 34,917 70.51
Labour gain from Unionist Swing

References

  1. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
  2. ↑ The Times, 17 November 1922
  3. ↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
  4. ↑ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
  5. ↑ The Times, 1 June 1929
  6. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
  7. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
  8. ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
  9. ↑ The Liberal Magazine, 1939
  10. ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
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