Holland with Boston was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
History The constituency was created in 1918 and abolished in 1997. By the time of its abolition, it was a safe Conservative seat. However, Holland with Boston had been held by both the Liberal and Labour parties before the Second World War.
From 1885 to 1918 the parliamentary borough of Boston returned one MP, while the Lincolnshire county division of Spalding, in the south-east of the historic county, elected another MP. In 1918 these two seats were merged to form this constituency.
When created in 1918 the constituency had the same boundaries as the traditional sub-division of the historic county known as the Parts of Holland, which had become an administrative county in 1889.
In 1997 the constituency was abolished and replaced by two new constituencies, Boston and Skegness and South Holland and The Deepings.
Boundaries 1918–1974: The county of the Parts of Holland.
1974–1983: The Municipal Borough of Boston, the Urban District of Spalding, and the Rural Districts of Boston, East Elloe, and Spalding.
1983–1997: The Borough of Boston, and the District of South Holland wards of Donington, Fleet, Gedney, Holbeach Hurn, Holbeach St John, Holbeach Town, Long Sutton, Moulton, Sutton Bridge, The Saints, and Whaplode.
Members of Parliament
ElectionMemberParty 1918 William Royce Labour 1924 by-election Arthur Dean Conservative 1929 by-election Sir James Blindell Liberal 1931 National Liberal 1937 by-election Sir Herbert Butcher National Liberal 1950 National Liberal & Conservative 1966 Sir Richard Body Conservative1997 constituency abolished: see Boston and Skegness and South Holland and the Deepings
Election results Elections in the 1910s
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; Liberal National: Herbert Butcher Labour: E KennedyReport of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939 British Union: Sylvia Morris
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1990s
See also List of parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire 1924 Holland with Boston by-election 1929 Holland with Boston by-election 1937 Holland with Boston by-election
Notes and references
Sources http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk.htm Area Studies, UK: politics, elections and government in Britain 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)