Westmorland was a constituency covering the county of Westmorland in the North of England, which returned Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1983
Not to be confused with Westmorland (electoral district).
Westmorland
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Context: 1832–1868. Extract from 1837 result: the most central 'doubly' blue area
1918–1983
Number of members
one
Replaced by
Penrith & The Border and Westmorland & Lonsdale
Created from
Appleby and Kendal
1290–1885
Number of members
two
Replaced by
Appleby and Kendal
The constituency had two separate periods of existence.
Until 1885
It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. For the string of elections from 1885 general election it split in two: Appleby and Kendal, both of which had been parliamentary boroughs but were reconstituted as county constituencies.
1918–1983
The constituency was recreated as a single-seater for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1983 general election.
In the boundary changes in 1983 the southern part of the constituency became part of the new seat of Westmorland and Lonsdale and the northern area was transferred to Penrith and The Border
Boundaries
The 1918 – 1983 seat corresponded to the county of Westmorland even after the abolition of the administrative county in 1974.
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Members of Parliament
Constituency created (1290)
MPs 1290–1640
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Bellingham not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653
Westmorland was not separately represented in the Barebones Parliament. The following were nominated for The Four Northern Counties collectively: Major-General Charles Howard, Robert Fenwick, Henry Dawson, Henry Ogle
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;
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British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, F W S Craig
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