King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency)

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King's Lynn constituency
Created:	1298
Abolished:	1974
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

King's Lynn was a constituency which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1885, and one member thereafter. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister, was one of the constituency's two MPs for almost the entirety of his Commons career, from 1702 until 1742.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1940s 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Robert Bourke, later Baron Connemara	Conservative
	1886	Alexander Weston Jarvis
	1892	Thomas Gibson Bowles	Conservative
	1906	Carlyon Wilfroy Bellairs	Liberal
	1909		Conservative
	1910	Thomas Gibson Bowles	Liberal
	1910	Holcombe Ingleby
	1918	Sir Neville Paul Jodrell	Conservative
	1923	George Graham Woodwark	Liberal
	1924	Edmund Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy	Conservative
	1935	Somerset Arthur Maxwell	Conservative
	1943	Edmund Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy	Conservative
	1945	Frederick John Wise	Labour
	1951	Ronald Scott-Miller	Conservative
	1959	Denys Bullard	Conservative
	1964	Derek Page	Conservative
	1970	Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler	Conservative

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

King's Lynn by-election, 1943
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lord Fermoy	10,696	54.2	+4.2
	Independent Labour	Frederick Wise	9,027	45.8	N/A
Majority			1,669	8.4	−7.1
Turnout			9,723	39.8	−31.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.