Rutland and Stamford
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
CountyLincolnshire and Rutland
1918–1983
SeatsOne
Created fromRutland and Stamford
Replaced byRutland & Melton
Stamford & Spalding

Rutland and Stamford was a county constituency comprising the area centred on the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire, and the county of Rutland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, using the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. It was succeeded by the Rutland and Melton and Stamford and Spalding constituencies.

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the next general election.[1]

Boundaries

Historic

1918–1950: The administrative county of Rutland, the Municipal Borough of Stamford, the Urban District of Bourne, the Rural Districts of Bourne and Uffington, and part of the Rural District of Grantham.

1950–1983: The administrative county of Rutland, the Municipal Borough of Stamford, the Urban District of Bourne, the Rural District of South Kesteven, and parts of the Rural Districts of East Kesteven and West Kesteven.

Proposed

The re-established constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1st December 2020):

It will include the following areas:

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party[3]
1918 Claud Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby Conservative
1922 Charles Harvey Dixon Conservative
1923 by-election Neville Smith-Carington Conservative
1933 by-election Lord Willoughby de Eresby Conservative
1950 Sir Roger Conant Conservative
1959 Kenneth Lewis Conservative
1983 Constituency abolished. See Rutland & Melton and Stamford & Spalding

In 1983 Rutland became part of the Rutland and Melton constituency along with Melton borough and part of Harborough District in Leicestershire.

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: Rutland and Stamford[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
C Unionist Claud Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby 8,838 53.6
Labour Fleming Eccles 7,639 46.4
Majority 1,199 7.2
Turnout 16,477 61.8
Registered electors 26,647
Unionist win (new seat)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Rutland and Stamford[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Charles Harvey Dixon 10,278 46.8 −6.8
Labour Fleming Eccles 7,236 32.9 −13.5
National Farmers' Union Edward Clark 4,471 20.3 New
Majority 3,042 13.9 +6.7
Turnout 21,985 81.2 +19.4
Registered electors 27,074
Unionist hold Swing +3.4
1923 Rutland and Stamford by-election[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Neville Smith-Carington 11,196 57.1 +10.3
Labour Arthur Sells 8,406 42.9 +10.0
Majority 2,790 14.2 +0.3
Turnout 19,602 71.5 −9.7
Registered electors 27,409
Unionist hold Swing +0.2
General election 1923: Rutland and Stamford[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Neville Smith-Carington 10,803 51.4 +4.6
Liberal Frank Stapledon Hiley 5,203 24.8 New
Labour Arthur Sells 5,005 23.8 −9.1
Majority 5,600 26.6 +12.7
Turnout 21,011 76.7 −4.5
Registered electors 27,409
Unionist hold Swing +6.9
General election 1924: Rutland and Stamford[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Neville Smith-Carington 13,286 66.7 +15.3
Labour H F Wheeler 6,633 33.3 +9.5
Majority 6,653 33.4 +6.8
Turnout 19,919 71.5 −5.2
Registered electors 27,869
Unionist hold Swing +2.9
General election 1929: Rutland and Stamford[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Neville Smith-Carington 12,607 47.4 −19.3
Labour Henry James Jones 7,403 27.9 −5.4
Liberal Harry Payne 6,561 24.7 New
Majority 5,204 19.5 −13.9
Turnout 26,571 76.7 +5.2
Registered electors 34,647
Unionist hold Swing −7.0

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Rutland and Stamford[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Neville Smith-Carington 19,086 71.9 +24.5
Labour F E Church 7,446 28.1 +0.2
Majority 11,640 43.8 +24.3
Turnout 26,532 75.3 −1.4
Conservative hold Swing
1933 Rutland and Stamford by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby 14,605 53.3 −18.6
Labour Arnold William Gray 12,818 46.7 +18.6
Majority 1,787 6.6 −37.2
Turnout 27,423 77.2 +1.9
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1935: Rutland and Stamford[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby 16,799 59.9 −12.0
Labour Arnold William Gray 11,238 40.1 +12.0
Majority 5,561 19.8 −24.0
Turnout 28,037 78.4 +3.1
Conservative 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: Rutland and Stamford[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby 15,359 53.7 −6.2
Labour Arnold William Gray 13,223 46.3 +6.2
Majority 2,136 7.4 −12.4
Turnout 28,582 72.9 −5.5
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Rutland and Stamford[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Roger Conant 16,498 49.6 −4.1
Labour Tom Bradley 13,712 41.3 −5.0
Liberal Cyril Valentine 3,024 9.1 New
Majority 2,786 8.3 +0.9
Turnout 33,234 83.8 +10.9
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1951: Rutland and Stamford[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Roger Conant 17,850 54.1 +4.5
Labour Tom Bradley 15,127 45.9 +4.6
Majority 2,723 8.2 −0.1
Turnout 32,977
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1955: Rutland and Stamford[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Roger Conant 17,675 54.3 +0.2
Labour Tom Bradley 14,856 45.7 −0.2
Majority 2,819 3.6 −4.6
Turnout 32,531 79.7
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1959: Rutland and Stamford[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth Lewis 19,078 57.4 +3.1
Labour Christopher S B Attlee 14,137 42.6 −3.1
Majority 4,941 14.8 +11.2
Turnout 33,215
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Rutland and Stamford[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth Lewis 18,720 55.5 −1.9
Labour Co-op A Victor Butler 14,990 44.5 +1.9
Majority 3,730 11.0 −3.8
Turnout 33,710 79.3
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1966: Rutland and Stamford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth Lewis 17,991 53.4 −2.1
Labour Co-op A Victor Butler 15,704 46.6 +2.1
Majority 2,287 6.8 −4.2
Turnout 33,695
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Rutland and Stamford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth Lewis 22,803 60.1 +6.7
Labour Henry Toch 15,136 39.9 −6.7
Majority 7,667 20.2 +13.4
Turnout 37,939 75.0
Conservative hold Swing
General election February 1974: Rutland and Stamford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth Lewis 21,088 47.25
Labour Anthony Byrne 12,203 27.34
Liberal David Howie 11,336 25.40 New
Majority 8,885 19.91
Turnout 44,627 82.40
Conservative hold Swing
General election October 1974: Rutland and Stamford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth Lewis 19,101 46.2 −1.0
Labour Malcolm R.C. Withers 12,111 29.3 +2.0
Liberal David Howie 10,113 24.5 −0.9
Majority 6,990 16.9 −3.0
Turnout 41,325 72.0 −10.4
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1979: Rutland and Stamford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Kenneth Lewis 26,198 56.48
Labour Malcolm R.C. Withers 11,383 24.54
Liberal Peter Blaine 8,801 18.98
Majority 14,815 31.94
Turnout 46,382 78.08
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: Rutland and Stamford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Alicia Kearns[19]
Majority
Turnout

See also

References

  1. ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – East Midlands | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
  4. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  5. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  6. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  7. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  8. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  9. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  10. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  11. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  12. ^ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
  13. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  14. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
  15. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
  16. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
  17. ^ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
  18. ^ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
  19. ^ "Melton to get new MP at next General Election". Melton Times. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
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