Skipton was a county constituency centred on the town of Skipton in Yorkshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished nearly a hundred years later, for the 1983 general election. It was then partly replaced by the new Skipton and Ripon constituency.
Boundaries 1885–1918: Part of the Wapentake of Skipton and Ewecross.
1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Barnoldswick, Earby, and Skipton, and the Rural Districts of Bowland, Sedbergh, Settle, and Skipton.
1950–1983: The Urban Districts of Barnoldswick, Earby, and Skipton, the Rural Districts of Bowland, Sedbergh, and Settle, and the Rural District of Skipton except the parishes of Steeton with Eastburn, and Sutton.
In 1974 the rural district of Sedbergh became part of the new county of Cumbria.
Members of Parliament ElectionMemberParty 1885 Mathew Wilson Liberal 1886 Walter Morrison Liberal Unionist 1892 Charles Savile Roundell Liberal 1895 Walter Morrison Liberal Unionist 1900 Frederick Whitley-Thomson Liberal 1906 William Clough Liberal 1918 Richard Roundell Conservative 1924 Ernest Bird Conservative 1933 by-election George Rickards Conservative 1944 by-election Hugh Lawson Common Wealth 1945 Burnaby Drayson Conservative 1979 John Watson Conservative 1983 constituency abolished: see Skipton & Ripon
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; Liberal: William Clough Unionist: Richard Roundell
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1939–40
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 and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; Conservative: George Rickards Labour: John DaviesReport of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
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