# Haltemprice (UK Parliament constituency)

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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

| Election | Member | Party | Notes |
| 1950 | Richard Law | Conservative | Resigned 1954 on being raised to the peerage |
| 1954 by-election | Patrick Wall | Conservative |
| 1983 | constituency abolished | constituency abolished |

## Election results
### Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Kingston-upon-Hull Haltemprice :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Richard Law | 23,482 | 49.6 | |
| | Labour | T. L. Addy Taylor | 18,156 | 38.3 | |
| | Liberal | Albert Burrell | 5,723 | 12.1 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 5,326 | 11.3 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 47,361 | 85.1 | |
| | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) |
General election 1951: Kingston-upon-Hull Haltemprice :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Richard Law | 27,167 | 58.1 | +8.5 |
| | Labour | Charles W. Bridges | 19,584 | 41.9 | +3.6 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 7,583 | 16.2 | +4.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 46,751 | 82.8 | −2.3 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
1954 Haltemprice by-election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Patrick Wall | 16,107 | 61.8 | +3.7 |
| | Labour | Charles W. Bridges | 9,974 | 38.2 | −3.7 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 6,133 | 23.6 | +7.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 26,081 | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
General election 1955: Haltemprice :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Patrick Wall | 26,162 | 68.9 | +11.8 |
| | Labour | Harry Roberts | 11,820 | 31.1 | −11.8 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 14,342 | 37.8 | +21.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 37,982 | 74.8 | −8.0 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
General election 1959: Haltemprice :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Patrick Wall | 26,102 | 60.1 | −8.8 |
| | Labour | David Nicholson Bancroft | 9,750 | 22.5 | −8.6 |
| | Liberal | W. Ivor Cooper | 7,562 | 17.4 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 16,352 | 37.6 | −0.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 43,414 | 80.5 | +5.7 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |

### Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Haltemprice :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Patrick Wall | 26,131 | 56.2 | −3.9 |
| | Labour | Peter Allison | 10,360 | 22.3 | −0.2 |
| | Liberal | Sydney Burnley | 9,986 | 21.5 | +4.1 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 15,771 | 33.9 | −3.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 46,477 | 79.5 | −1.0 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
General election 1966: Haltemprice :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Patrick Wall | 25,566 | 54.6 | −1.6 |
| | Labour | Phyllis Clarke | 13,017 | 27.8 | +5.5 |
| | Liberal | Sydney Burnley | 8,277 | 17.7 | −3.8 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 12,549 | 26.8 | −7.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 46,860 | 76.5 | −3.0 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |

### Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Haltemprice :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Patrick Wall | 30,042 | 53.6 | −1.0 |
| | Labour | Christopher M. Denton | 15,862 | 28.3 | +0.5 |
| | Liberal | Stuart C. Haywood | 10,129 | 18.0 | +0.3 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 14,180 | 25.3 | −1.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 56,033 | 74.8 | −1.7 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
General election February 1974: Haltemprice :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Patrick Wall | 31,720 | 50.6 | −3.0 |
| | Liberal | Robert Walker | 19,896 | 31.8 | +13.8 |
| | Labour | Laurie Cross | 11,031 | 17.6 | −10.7 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 11,824 | 18.9 | −6.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 62,647 | 82.9 | +8.1 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
General election October 1974: Haltemprice :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Patrick Wall | 28,206 | 49.3 | −1.3 |
| | Liberal | Robert Walker | 16,566 | 29.0 | −2.8 |
| | Labour | Laurie Cross | 12,383 | 21.7 | +4.1 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 11,640 | 20.3 | +1.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 57,155 | 74.9 | −8.0 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
General election 1979: Haltemprice :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Patrick Wall | 34,525 | 55.8 | +6.5 |
| | Liberal | Robert Walker | 14,637 | 23.6 | −5.4 |
| | Labour | H.J. Elcock | 12,743 | 20.6 | −1.1 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 19,888 | 32.2 | +11.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 61,509 | 77.3 | +2.4 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |

## In popular culture

Haltemprice was the constituency of the fictional ultra-right Tory MP, Alan B'Stard, in The New Statesman, a TV series which began after the actual constituency was abolished in 1983. In the first episode of the show, B'Stard wins the election in a landslide, after cutting the brake lines on his Labour and SDP opponents' cars, nearly killing them. To add insult to (literal) injury, both of these opponents finish behind Screaming Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Loony Party, which gets more votes then Labour or SDP combined.
1987 general election: Haltemprice :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Alan Beresford B'Stard | 31,756 | 76.9 |
| | Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 5,019 | 12.2 |
| | Labour | William Richard Hanslon | 3,237 | 7.8 |
| | Alliance | Martin Cyril Roeper | 1,265 | 3.1 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 26,737 | 64.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 41,277 | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | |