Whitehaven (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Whitehaven County constituency |
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| Created: | 1832 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Whitehaven was a constituency centred on the town of Whitehaven in Cumberland , which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was created in 1832 and renamed Copeland at the 1983 general election.
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[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] Members of Parliament
- 1832 – 1847: Matthias Attwood
- 1847 – 1857: Robert Charles Hildyard
- 1857 – 1865: George Lyall
- 1865 – 1891: George Cavendish-Bentinck
- 1891 – 1892: Sir James Bain (Whitehaven MP)
- 1892 – 1895: Thomas Shepherd Little
- 1895 – 1906: Augustus Helder
- 1906 – 1910: William John Dalzell Burnyeat
- 1910 – 1910: John Arthur Jackson
- 1910 – 1918: Thomas Richardson
- 1918 – 1922: James Augustus Grant
- 1922 – 1924: Thomas Gavan Duffy
- 1924 – 1929: Robert Hudson
- 1929 – 1931: Morgan Philips Price
- 1931 – 1935: William Nunn
- 1935 – 1959: Frank Anderson
- 1959 – 1970: Joseph Bede Symonds
- 1970 – 1974: Jack Cunningham
- 1983: constituency renamed (with unchanged boundaries), see Copeland
[edit] Election results
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