Bolton (UK Parliament constituency)

Bolton
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1832–1950
Number of members	two
Replaced by	Bolton East and Bolton West
Created from	Lancashire

Bolton was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bolton in the county of Lancashire. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.

Created by the Reform Act of 1832, it was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was abolished in 1950, being split into single-member divisions of Bolton East and Bolton West.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1832		Robert Torrens	Whig	William Bolling (1st time)	Tory
1835		Peter Ainsworth	Whig
1837
1841				John Bowring	Whig
1847		William Bolling (2nd time)	Conservative
1848		Stephen Blair	Conservative
1849		Stephen Blair	Conservative	Sir Joshua Walmsley	Whig
1852		Thomas Barnes (1st time)	Whig	Joseph Crook	Whig
1857		William Gray	Conservative
1859
1861				Thomas Barnes (2nd time)	Liberal
1865				Thomas Barnes (2nd time)	Liberal
1868				John Hick	Conservative
1874		John Kynaston Cross	Liberal	John Hick	Conservative
1880		John Kynaston Cross	Liberal	John Pennington Thomasson	Liberal
1885		Herbert Shepherd-Cross	Unionist	Francis Charles Bridgeman	Unionist
1886
1892
1895			Conservative	George Harwood	Liberal
1900			Conservative
1906		Alfred Henry Gill	Labour
Jan 1910
Dec 1910
1912				Thomas Taylor	Liberal
1914		Robert Tootill	Labour	Thomas Taylor	Liberal
1916				William Edge	Liberal
1918					Coalition Liberal
1922		William Russell	Conservative		National Liberal
1923		Sir Joseph Herbert Cunliffe	Conservative	Albert Law (1st time)	Labour
1924		Sir Joseph Herbert Cunliffe	Conservative	Cecil Hilton	Unionist
1929		Michael Brothers	Labour	Albert Law (2nd time)	Labour
1931		Sir John Haslam	Conservative	Sir Cyril Fullard Entwistle	Conservative
1935		Sir John Haslam	Conservative
1940		Sir Edward Cecil George Cadogan	Conservative
1945		John Henry Jones	Labour	John Lewis	Labour
1950	constituency abolished: see Bolton East & Bolton West

Election results

Winning candidates are highlighted in bold.

Elections in the 1900s

Shepherd-Cross

George Harwood

General Election 1900: Bolton (2 seats) ^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Conservative	Herbert Shepherd-Cross	unopposed	n/a	n/a
Liberal	George Harwood	unopposed	n/a	n/a
Conservative hold		Swing	n/a
Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

George Goschen

General Election 1906: Bolton (2 seats) ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	George Harwood	10,953	39.0	n/a
	Labour	Alfred Henry Gill	10,416	37.1	n/a
	Conservative	Hon. George Joachim Goschen	6,693		n/a
Majority					n/a
Turnout				91.5	n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Alfred Gill

General Election January 1910: Bolton (2 seats) ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	George Harwood	12,275
	Labour	Alfred Henry Gill	11,864
	Conservative	Miles Walker Mattinson	7,479
	Conservative	Percy Ashworth	7,326
Majority			4,385	11.3
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Bolton (2 seats) ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	George Harwood	10,358	35.5
	Labour	Alfred Henry Gill	10,108	34.7
	Conservative	George Hesketh	8,697	29.8
Majority			1,411	4.9
Turnout				89.3
	Liberal hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Bolton by-election, 1912 (1 seat) ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Thomas Taylor	10,011	53.1
	Unionist	Arthur Brooks	8,835	46.9
Majority			1,176	6.2
Turnout			18,846	88.9
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Liberal: Thomas Taylor
Labour: Robert Tootill
Unionist: Thomas Clarke Pilling Gibbons

General Election 1918: Bolton (2 seats) ^[1]^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Liberal	William Edge ^[Note1]	unopposed	n/a	n/a
Labour	Robert Tootill	unopposed	n/a	n/a
Liberal hold		Swing	n/a
Labour hold		Swing	n/a

^Note1 Endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Bolton (2 seats) ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	William Russell	37,491		n/a
	National Liberal	Sir William Edge	31,015		n/a
	Labour	Samuel Lomax	20,559		n/a
	Labour	William James Abraham	20,156		n/a
	Liberal	Isaac Edwards	9,267		n/a
Turnout					n/a
Majority					n/a
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing	n/a
Majority					n/a
	National Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1923: Bolton (2 seats) ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Albert Law	25,133	18.6
	Unionist	Joseph Herbert Cunliffe	22,833	16.9
	Unionist	Cecil Hilton	22,640	16.8
	Liberal	Sir William Edge	22,173	16.5
	Labour	Fleming Eccles	21,045	15.6
	Liberal	John Fletcher Steele	21,040	15.6	+1.1
Turnout				80.0
Majority			2,493	1.8
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing
Majority			660	0.4
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1924: Bolton (2 seats) ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Unionist	Sir Joseph Herbert Cunliffe	34,690
	Unionist	Cecil Hilton	33,405
	Labour	Albert Law	30,632
	Labour	William Harold Hutchinson	28,918
	Liberal	J. P. Taylor	10,036
	Liberal	Alfred Ernest Holt	8,558
Turnout
Majority
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing
Majority
	Unionist hold		Swing

Cyril Entwistle

General Election 1929: Bolton (2 seats) ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Albert Law	43,520	24.0
	Labour	Michael Brothers	37,888	20.9
	Unionist	Cyril Fullard Entwistle	36,667	20.3
	Unionist	Cecil Hilton	35,850	19.8
	Liberal	Patrick Redmond Barry	27,074	15.0
Turnout			180,999
Majority			1,221	0.7
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing
Majority
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Bolton (2 seats) ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Cyril Fullard Entwistle	66,385	33.94
	Conservative	Sir John Haslam	63,402	32.42
	Labour	Albert Law	33,736	17.25
	Labour	Michael Brothers	32,049	16.39
Turnout				79.56
Majority
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
Majority
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Bolton (2 seats) ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Cyril Fullard Entwistle	54,129	29.05
	Conservative	Sir John Haslam	52,465	28.15
	Labour	Albert Law	39,890	21.41
	Labour	J. Lynch	39,871	21.40
Turnout				75.07
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing
Majority
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

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 from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

Conservative: Sir Cyril Entwistle, Sir John Haslam
Labour: E Mellor

However, in the by-election held in 1940 no other parties contested the seat due to the War-time electoral pact meaning that the Conservative candidate Edward Cadogan was elected unopposed.

General Election 1945: Bolton (2 seats) ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	John Henry Jones	44,595	23.99
	Labour	John Lewis	43,266	23.28
	Conservative	Jeffery Fellowes Crofts Reynolds	31,217	16.79
	Conservative	Sir Cyril Fullard Entwistle	30,911	16.63
	Liberal	Robert Kewley Spedding	18,180	9.78	n/a
	Liberal	Brian Reginald Connell	17,710	9.53	n/a
Turnout				77.2
Majority
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
Majority			12,049	6.65
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)

1 2 3 4 5 6 Craig, F. W. S. (1974). British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (1 ed.). London: Macmillan.
1 2 3 4 5 Craig, F. W. S. (1969). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (1 ed.). Glasgow: Political Reference Publications.
↑ "UK General Election results October 1931". Political Science Resources. 30 October 2012. Birmingham Handsworth – Bristol North. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
↑ "UK General Election results November 1935". Political Science Resources. 22 October 2012. Birmingham Handsworth – Bristol North. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
↑ "UK General Election results July 1945". Political Science Resources. 22 October 2012. Birmingham Deritend – Bridgwater. Retrieved 23 August 2016.

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