Haltemprice (which from 1950 to 1955 was officially known as Kingston upon Hull, Haltemprice) was a constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire, a traditional sub-division of the historic county of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
Boundaries 1950–1955: The Urban District of Haltemprice, and the County Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull wards of Pickering and St Andrew's.
1955–1983: The Municipal Borough of Beverley, the Urban District of Haltemprice, and the Rural District of Beverley. The two Kingston-upon-Hull wards were transferred to the Hull West constituency.
In the 1983 redistribution, which reflected the major local government boundary changes of 1974, this constituency disappeared. Most of it became the new seat of Beverley, while the remainder of the constituency contributed 11.6% of the new Boothferry seat.
Members of Parliament ElectionMemberPartyNotes 1950 Richard Law Conservative Resigned 1954 on being raised to the peerage 1954 by-election Patrick Wall Conservative1983 constituency abolished
Election results Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
In popular culture Following its abolition, Haltemprice was depicted in the Yorkshire Television series The New Statesman as the constituency of the fictional ultra-right Conservative MP Alan B'Stard, who won it at the 1987 election after cutting the break lines of his Labour and Alliance opponents' cars. The election and its aftermath are the primary concern of the series' first episode, Happiness is a Warm Gun, and depicts Screaming Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Loony Party finishing second behind B'Stard, winning more votes than the hospitalised Labour or the Alliance candidates combined.
References
Sources Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972) British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984) British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983) Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)