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Coordinates: 54°52′44″N 2°56′13″W / 54.879°N 2.937°W / 54.879; -2.937

Carlisle Borough constituency

Carlisle shown within Cumbria, and Cumbria shown within England
Created:	1295
MP:	Eric Martlew
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Cumbria
EP constituency:	North West England

Carlisle is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It has been a Labour seat since 1964, but is now a marginal constituency with the Conservatives as the main challengers.

1 Boundaries
- 1.1 Boundary review
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 Notes
5 References
6 See also

Boundaries

The Carlisle constituency covers the most populated part of the City of Carlisle district in Cumbria, including the city of Carlisle itself. It also covers the rural area of the district to the south and west of the city, including the village of Dalston. The remaining parts of the district are in the Penrith and the Border constituency.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cumbria, the Boundary Commission for England have modified the boundaries of the Carlisle constituency, as a consequence of population changes. The altered constituency to be fought at the 2010 general election will be formed from the following wards:

Belah, Belle Vue, Botcherby, Burgh, Castle, Currock, Dalston, Denton Holme, Harraby, Morton, St Aidans, Stanwix Urban, Upperby, Wetheral, and Yewdale.

Members of Parliament

MPs -1660

1381 and 1384: John de Blennerhassett ^[1]
1413: Ralph de Blenerhayset ^[2]
1441: John Blenerhayset ^[3]
1584-1585: Thomas Blennerhassett ^[4]
1621-1626: Henry Vane the Elder
1626: Richard Graham
1628-1629: Richard Graham

Long Parliament

1640-1644: Sir William Dalston (Royalist) - disabled to sit, January 1644
1640-1648 (?): Richard Barwis (Parliamentarian) - not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge, December 1648
1645(?)-1648(?): Thomas Cholmley- not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge, December 1648

Carlisle was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament.

First Protectorate Parliament (One member only)

1654-1655:?

Second Protectorate Parliament (One member only)

1656-1658: George Downing

Third Protectorate Parliament

1659: George Downing
1659: ?

Long Parliament (restored)

1659-1660: ?

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MPs 1660-1885

	First member	First party	Second member	Second party
1660	William Briscoe		Jeremiah Tolhurst
1661	Sir Christopher Musgrave		Sir Philip Howard
1681			Viscount Morpeth
1685			James Grahme
1689			Jeremiah Bubb
1690	Christopher Musgrave		Jeremiah Bubb
1692			William Lowther
1694			James Lowther
1695	William Howard
1701	Philip Howard	Whig
1702	Christopher Musgrave		Thomas Stanwix	Whig
1705	Sir James Montagu
1713	Sir Christopher Musgrave, Bt	Tory
1715	William Strickland	Whig
1721	William Strickland	Whig	Henry Aglionby
1722	James Bateman	Tory	Henry Aglionby
1727	Charles Howard		John Hylton	Tory
1741			John Stanwix	Whig
1742			John Hylton	Tory
1746			John Stanwix	Whig
1761	Raby Vane		Henry Curwen
1768	Lord Charles Edward Bentinck		George Musgrave
1774	Anthony Storer		Fletcher Norton ^[5]
1775	Anthony Storer		Walter Spencer-Stanhope
1780	Earl of Surrey		William Lowther
1784			Edward Norton
April 1786			John Lowther
May 1786			John Christian
November 1786	Edward Knubley ^[6]
1787	Rowland Stephenson
1790	James Clarke Satterthwaite ^[7]		Edward Knubley
1791	Wilson Bradyll		John Christian Curwen	Whig
1796	Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane	Whig
1802	Walter Spencer-Stanhope	Tory
1812	Sir James Graham	Tory	Henry Fawcett
1816			John Christian Curwen ^[8]	Whig
1820			William James	Whig
1825	Sir Philip Musgrave	Tory	William James	Whig
1826	Sir Philip Musgrave	Tory	Sir James Graham	Whig
1827	James Law Lushington	Tory	Sir James Graham	Whig
1829			Sir William Scott	Tory
1830			Philip Henry Howard	Whig
1831	William James	Whig
1835	William Marshall	Whig
1847	William Nicholson Hodgson	Conservative	John Dixon ^[9]	Whig
1848	William Nicholson Hodgson	Conservative	Philip Henry Howard	Whig
1852	Joseph Ferguson	Whig	Sir James Graham	Peelite
1857	William Nicholson Hodgson	Conservative
1859	Wilfrid Lawson	Liberal
1861	Wilfrid Lawson	Liberal	Edmund Potter	Liberal
1865	William Nicholson Hodgson	Conservative
1868	Sir Wilfrid Lawson	Liberal
1874	Sir Wilfrid Lawson	Liberal	Robert Ferguson	Liberal

Representation reduced to one member (1885)

MPs 1885-present

Year		Member	Party
1885		Representation reduced to one member
	1885	Robert Ferguson	Liberal
	1886	William Court Gully	Gladstonian Liberal
	1905	Frederick William Chance	Liberal
	1910 January	Richard Denman	Liberal
	1918	William Theodore Carr	Coalition Liberal
	1922	George Middleton	Labour
	1924	William Watson	Conservative
	1929	George Middleton	Labour
	1931	Louis Spears	Conservative
	1945	Edgar Grierson	Labour
	1950	Alfred Hargreaves (aka Alex)	Labour
	1955	Dr Donald Johnson	Conservative
	1964	Ronald Lewis	Labour
	1987	Eric Martlew	Labour

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Election results

This section requires expansion.

Elections in the 18th century

Election results taken from the History of Parliament Trust series.

General Election 1715: Carlisle (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Strickland	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Whig	Thomas Stanwix	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Stanwix appointed Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull

By-Election 12 April 1721: Carlisle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Henry Aglionby	268	67.00	N/A
	Whig	Thomas Stanwix	132	33.00	N/A

General Election 27 March 1722: Carlisle (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Henry Aglionby	398	37.65	N/A
	Tory	James Bateman	350	33.11	N/A
	Whig	Thomas Stanwix	309	29.23	N/A

General Election 1727: Carlisle (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Charles Howard	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory	John Hylton	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

General Election 3 May 1734: Carlisle (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Charles Howard	354	37.82	N/A
	Tory	John Hylton	351	37.50	N/A
	Non Partisan	Henry Aglionby	231	24.68	N/A

General Election 13 May 1741: Carlisle (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Charles Howard	109	38.11	N/A
	Whig	John Stanwix	90	31.47	N/A
	Tory	John Hylton	87	30.42	N/A

Note: Stanwix was unseated on petition and replaced by Hylton, 26 January 1742

Death of Hylton

By-Election 26 November 1746: Carlisle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	John Stanwix	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Non Partisan	Sir Richard Musgrave, Bt	N/A	N/A	N/A

General Election 1747: Carlisle (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Charles Howard	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Whig	John Stanwix	Unopposed	N/A	N/A

Elections in the 20th century

General Election 1970:Carlisle^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ronald Lewis	21,866	53.19
	Conservative	BA Marsden	19,241	46.81
Majority			2,625	6.39
Turnout			41,105	78.55

General Election February 1974: Carlisle^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ronald Lewis	23,119	55.2
	Conservative	EM White	18,139	43.31
	Independent Socialist	J Wild	628	1.5
Majority			4,980	11.89
Turnout			41,887	88.83

General Election October 1974: Carlisle^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ronald Lewis	21,079	51.15
	Conservative	D Bloomer	14,825	35.97
	Liberal	F Phillips	5,306	12.88
Majority			6,254	15.18
Turnout			41,211	78.77

General Election 1979: Carlisle^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ronald Lewis	21,343	49.69
	Conservative	D Bloomer	16,777	39.06
	Liberal	T Potts	4,829	11.24
Majority			4,566	10.63
Turnout			42,951	79.98

General Election 1983: Carlisle^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ronald Lewis	15,618	37.51
	Conservative	R Sowler	15,547	37.34
	SDP-Liberal Alliance	R Hunt	10,471	25.15
Majority			71	0.17
Turnout			41,638	76.38

General Election 1987: Carlisle^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eric Martlew	18,311	42.23
	Conservative	WG Hodgson	17,395	40.12
	SDP-Liberal Alliance	R Hunt	7,655	17.65
Majority			916	2.11
Turnout			43,359	78.76

General Election 1992: Carlisle^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eric Martlew	20,479	46.78
	Conservative	CW Condie	17,371	39.68
	Liberal Democrat	RE Aldersey	5,740	13.11
	Natural Law	N Robinson	190	0.43
Majority			3,108	7.1
Turnout			43,781	79.4

General Election 1997: Carlisle^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eric Martlew	25,031	57.4
	Conservative	R Lawrence	12,641	28.99
	Liberal Democrat	C Mayho	4,576	10.49
	Referendum Party	A Fraser	1,233	2.83
	Natural Law	W Stevens	126	0.29
Majority			12,390	28.41
Turnout			43,607	72.78

Elections in the 21st century

General Election 2001: Carlisle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eric Martlew	17,856	51.2	-6.3
	Conservative	Mike Mitchelson	12,154	34.8	+5.8
	Liberal Democrat	John Guest	4,076	11.7	+1.2
	Legalise Cannabis	Colin Paisley	554	1.6	+1.6
	Socialist Alliance	Paul Wilcox	269	0.8	+0.8
Majority			5,702	16.4
Turnout			34,909	59.4	-13.4
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2005: Carlisle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eric Martlew	17,019	48.1	-3.1
	Conservative	Mike Mitchelson	11,324	32.0	-2.8
	Liberal Democrat	Steven Tweedie	5,916	16.7	+5.0
	UKIP	Steven Cochrane	792	2.2	+2.2
	Legalise Cannabis	Lezley Gibson	343	1.0	-0.6
Majority			5,695	16.1
Turnout			35,394	59.5	+0.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.2

Confirmed candidates for the United Kingdom general election, 2010 ^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Boaden
	Green	John Reardon
	Conservative	John Stevenson
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Tweedie

Notes

^ [1], www.thepeerage.com
^ [2], www.thepeerage.com
^ [3], www.thepeerage.com
^ [4], www.thepeerage.com
^ Norton was also elected for Guildford, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Carlisle
^ Knubley defeated Rowland Stephenson in a contested by-election by 553 votes to 405; but on petition Knubley was unseated and Stephenson declared elected
^ At the general election Satterthwaite and Knubley defeated Curwen and Bradyll; however on petition the result was overturned and Curwen and Bradyll were declared elected. Knubley and Stephenson had each secured 503 votes of which 377 came from newly appointed freemen
^ Curwen was re-elected at the 1820 general election but was also elected for Cumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Carlisle in this parliament
^ On petition, the 1847 election in Carlisle was declared void. At the resulting by-election held in March 1848, Hodgson was re-elected but Howard, who had come third in the original election, finished ahead of Dixon
^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge70/i05.htm
^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74a/i05.htm
^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74b/i05.htm
^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge79/i05.htm
^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge83/i05.htm
^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge87/i05.htm
^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i05.htm
^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/constit/117.htm
^ [5], UK Polling Report

References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

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Contents

Boundaries

Boundary review

Members of Parliament

MPs -1660

MPs 1660-1885

MPs 1885-present

Election results

Elections in the 18th century

Elections in the 20th century

Elections in the 21st century

Notes

References

See also