Lincoln

Lincoln Borough constituency
Lincoln shown within Lincolnshire, and Lincolnshire shown within England
Created:	1265
MP:	Gillian Merron
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Lincolnshire
EP constituency:	East Midlands

Lincoln is a borough 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.

With the splitting of the City of York constituency at the next general election, Lincoln will be the oldest constituency in continuous existence in the United Kingdom, having been established in 1265.

It has been a bellwether constituency since October 1974, having voted for the winning party in each election since that time. This is despite it previously being a relatively safe seat for the Labour Party.

It was represented for five years by the future Cabinet minister Margaret Jackson, later Margaret Beckett; she has gone on to represent Derby South since 1983.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 MPs before 1660 2.2 MPs 1660–1886 2.3 MPs 1885–present 3 Election results 4 See also 5 Sources 6 Notes and references 7 Sources

Boundaries

The constituency, as its name suggests, covers the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire. It also includes a number of surrounding villages.

Members of Parliament

MPs before 1660

Thomas Lister, the regicide, was chosen as M.P. for Lincoln in 1647, replacing John Broxholme who had died. He survived Pride's Purge (the military coup that ejected from parliament MPs that did not support the army) and continued as the city's MP until 1653.^[1]

MPs 1660–1886

Election	Member		Party	Member		Party
1660		John Monson			Sir Thomas Meres
1661		Sir Robert Bolles, Bt
1664		Sir John Monson
1675		Henry Monson
1681		Sir Thomas Hussey, Bt
1685		Henry Monson
1689, January					Sir Christopher Nevile
1689, May		Sir Edward Hussey, Bt
1690					Sir John Bolles, Bt.
1695		William Monson
1698		Sir Edward Hussey, Bt
1701, January		Sir Thomas Meres
1701, December		Sir Edward Hussey, Bt
1702					Sir Thomas Meres
1705		Thomas Lister
1710					Richard Grantham
1713					John Sibthorpe
1715		Sir John Tyrwhitt, Bt			Richard Grantham
1722					Sir John Monson
1727		Charles Hall
1728					Sir John Tyrwhitt, 5th Bt
1734		Charles Monson			Coningsby Sibthorpe
1741					Sir John Tyrwhitt, 6th Bt
1747					Coningsby Sibthorpe
1754		George Monson			John Chaplin
1761					Coningsby Sibthorpe
1768		Thomas Scrope			Constantine John Phipps[2]
1774		The Viscount Lumley			Robert Vyner
1780		Sir Thomas Clarges, Bt
1783		John Fenton-Cawthorne[3]
1784					Richard Lumley-Savile
1790					The Lord Hobart[4]
1796, 14 May		George Rawdon
1796, 25 May					Richard Ellison
1800		Humphrey Sibthorp
1806		William Monson
1808		The Earl of Mexborough
1812		John Nicholas Fazakerley			Sir Henry Sullivan
1814					Coningsby Waldo-Sibthorpe
1818		Ralph Bernal
1820		Robert Percy Smith
1822					John Williams
1826		John Nicholas Fazakerley			Charles Delaet Waldo Sibthorp
1830		John Fardell
1831		George Fieschi Heneage
1832					Edward Lytton Bulwer[5]
1835		Charles Delaet Waldo Sibthorp	Conservative
1841					William Rickford Collett
1847					Charles Seely [6]
1848 by-election					Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse
1852					George Fieschi Heneage
1856 by-election		Gervaise Tottenham Waldo Sibthorp	Conservative
1861 by-election		Charles Seely	Liberal
1862 by-election					John Bramley-Moore	Conservative
1865					Edward Heneage[7]	Liberal
1868					John Hinde Palmer	Liberal
1874					Edward Chaplin	Conservative
1880					John Hinde Palmer	Liberal
1884 by-election					Joseph Ruston	Liberal

MPs 1885–present

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Joseph Ruston	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1886	Frederick Harold Kerans	Conservative
	1892	William Crosfield	Liberal
	1895	Charles Hilton Seely	Liberal Unionist
	1906	Charles Henry Roberts	Liberal
	1918	Alfred Thomas Davies	Coalition Conservative
	1924	Robert Arthur Taylor	Labour
	1931	Walter Sydney Liddall	Conservative
	1945	George Deer	Labour
	1950	Geoffrey de Freitas	Labour
	1962 by-election	Dick Taverne	Labour
	1972 - 1973	vacant
	1973 by-election	Dick Taverne (re-elected)	Lincoln Democratic Labour Association
	Oct 1974	Margaret Jackson later Beckett	Labour
	1979	Kenneth Carlisle	Conservative
	1997	Gillian Merron	Labour

Election results

General Election 2010: [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Karl McCartney
	Labour	Gillion Merron
	Liberal Democrat	Reginald Shore

General Election 2005: Lincoln
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gillian Merron	16,723	45.4	-8.5
	Conservative	Karl McCartney	12,110	32.9	+1.7
	Liberal Democrat	Lisa Gabriel	6,715	18.2	+5.5
	UKIP	Nicholas Smith	1,308	3.5	+1.2
Majority			4,613	12.5
Turnout			36,856	56.5	+0.5
	Labour hold		Swing	5.1

General Election 2001: Lincoln
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gillian Merron	20,003	53.9	-1.0
	Conservative	Christine-Anne Talbot	11,583	31.2	+0.2
	Liberal Democrat	Lisa Gabriel	4,703	12.7	+1.8
	UKIP	Rodger Doughty	836	2.3	N/A
Majority			8,420	22.7
Turnout			37,125	56.0	-15.0
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Lincoln
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gillian Merron	25,563	54.9
	Conservative	Tony Brown	14,433	31.0
	Liberal Democrat	Lisa Gabriel	5,048	10.8
	Referendum Party	J. Ivory	1,329	2.9
	Natural Law	A. Myers	175	0.4
Majority			11,130
Turnout				71.1
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1992: Lincoln
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth Carlisle	28,792	46.1
	Labour	Nick Butler	26,743	42.8
	Liberal Democrat	David Harding-Price	6,316	10.1
	Liberal	S. Wiggin	603	1.0
Majority			2,049
Turnout				79.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Lincoln
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth Carlisle	27,097	46.5
	Labour	Nick Butler	19,614	33.7
	Social Democrat	P. Zentner	6,316	10.1
	RRPRC	T. B. Kyle	232	0.4
Majority			7,483	12.8
Turnout				75.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Lincoln
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth Carlisle	25,244	46.4
	Labour	M. Withers	14,958	27.5
	Social Democrat	F. Stockdale	13,631	25.1
	Independent	G. Blades	523	1.0
Majority			10,286	18.9
Turnout				74.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Lincoln
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kenneth Carlisle	17,777	41.8
	Labour	Margaret Jackson	17,175	40.4
	Liberal	K. Melton	5,638	13.3
	Democratic Labour	F. Stockdale	1,743	4.1
	National Front	J. Noble	523	1.0
	Revolutionary Reform	T. Kyle	77	0.2
Majority			602	1.4
Turnout				77.0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election October 1974: Lincoln
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Jackson	14,698	37.1
	Democratic Labour	Dick Taverne	13,714	34.6
	Conservative	P. M. Moran	11,223	28.3
Majority			984	2.5
Turnout				74.8
	Labour gain from Democratic Labour		Swing

General Election February 1974: Lincoln
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic Labour	Dick Taverne	14,780	35.6
	Labour	Margaret Jackson	13,487	32.5
	Conservative	P. M. Moran	13,299	32.0
Majority			1,293	3.1
Turnout				79.1
	Democratic Labour gain from Labour		Swing

Lincoln by-election, 1973
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic Labour	Dick Taverne	21,967
	Labour	John Dilks	8,776
	Conservative	Jonathan Guinness	6,616
	Democratic Conservative	Reginald Simmerson	198
	Majority Rule	Malcolm Waller	100
	Independent	Jean Justice	81
Majority			13,191
Turnout
	Democratic Labour gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1970: Lincoln
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dick Taverne	20,090	51.0
	Conservative	Richard Alexander	15,340	39.0
	Independent	G. T. Blades	3,937	10.0
Majority			4,750	12.1
Turnout				74.4
	Labour hold		Swing

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire

Sources

• Guardian Unlimited Politics (Election results from 1992 to the present)
• http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ (Election results from 1951 to the present)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page (Complete list of MPs)

Notes and references

Sources

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 187. ISBN 0-900178-26-4. 
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 137. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. 
• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 172. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 

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