Brigg (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Brigg County constituency |
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| Created: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1974 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Brigg was a county constituency centred on the town of Brigg in North Lincolnshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election. See Brigg and Scunthorpe for the constituency which replaced this one.
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[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Sir Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson, Bt. | Liberal | |
| 1886 | Liberal Unionist | ||
| 1886 | Samuel Danks Waddy | Liberal | |
| 1894 | John Maunsell Richardson | Conservative | |
| 1895 | Harold James Reckitt | Liberal | |
| 1907 | Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield | Conservative | |
| 1910 | Sir William Alfred Gelder | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Charles Wesley Weldon McLean | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield | Conservative | |
| 1929 | David John Kinsley Quibell | Labour | |
| 1931 | Michael John Hunter | Conservative | |
| 1935 | David John Kinsley Quibell | Labour | |
| 1945 | Tom Williamson | Labour | |
| 1948 | Edward Lancelot Mallalieu | Labour | |
| 1974 | constituency abolished: see Brigg & Scunthorpe | ||
[edit] Election results
[edit] Elections in the 1940s
| Brigg by-election, 1948 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Lance Mallalieu | 27,333 | 54.6 | −4.3 | |
| Conservative | Anthony Fell | 22,746 | 45.4 | +4.3 | |
| Majority | 4,587 | 9.2 | −8.6 | ||
| Turnout | 50,079 | 77.1 | +0.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | −4.3 | |||
