The Hartlepools was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The constituency became Hartlepool in 1974. The seat's name reflected the representation of both old Hartlepool and West Hartlepool.
History The Hartlepools was enfranchised as a borough constituency by the Reform Act 1867, being given one MP. It had previously been part of the two-MP county division of South Durham.
The constituency was renamed Hartlepool in 1974, following the administrative merger in 1967 of the local authorities covering the borough of Hartlepool and the county borough of West Hartlepool.
Boundaries
1868–1918 The municipal borough of Hartlepool, and the townships of Throston, Stranton, and Seaton Carew.
See map on Vision of Britain website.
1918–1974 County borough of West Hartlepool and municipal borough of Hartlepool.
Boundaries redrawn in 1918, 1950 and 1955 to reflect changes to the boundaries of the two boroughs.
Members of Parliament ElectionMemberPolitical partyOffices held 1868 Ralph Ward Jackson Conservative 1874 Thomas Richardson Liberal 1875 by-election Lowthian Bell Liberal 1880 Thomas Richardson Liberal 1886 Liberal Unionist 1891 by-election Christopher Furness Liberal 1895 Sir Thomas Richardson Liberal Unionist 1900 Sir Christopher Furness Liberal 1910 by-election Stephen Furness Liberal 1914 by-election Sir Walter Runciman Liberal 1918 W. G. Howard Gritten Unionist 1922 William Jowitt Liberal 1924 Sir Wilfrid Sugden Unionist 1929 W. G. Howard Gritten Unionist 1943 by-election Thomas George Greenwell Conservative 1945 D. T. Jones Labour 1959 John Kerans Conservative 1964 Ted Leadbitter Labour
Elections Elections in the 1860s
Elections in the 1870s
Richardson resigned, causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was scheduled to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been preparing for this election, and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected: Liberal: Stephen Furness Unionist: William Gritten
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1940s General Election 1939–40
A General Election was scheduled to take place before the end of 1940. The parties had been preparing for this election, and by autumn 1939, the following candidates had been selected: Conservative: William Gritten Labour: D. T. JonesReport of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939 Liberal:
*Lupton stood as a 'People's' candidate
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
See also History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Durham
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