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General Election results covering the Basildon area 1885 - 1935 |
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General Election results 1885 - 1935
1) Summary of the constituency history from 1945 to 2019
2) General Election results in detail from 1945 to 2019
3) Summary of the constituency history from 1660 to 1935
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24 November - 18 December 1885 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
William Thomas Makins |
Conservative |
3,707 |
William Henry Wills |
Liberal |
3,500 |
Electorate:
Turnout:
Majority:
207
Seat Status:
Conservative Hold
General Election Winners:
Liberal. The General Election of November/December 1885 produced a
hung parliament. The Liberal party won the most seats and formed a minority government with the
support of the Irish Parliamentary Party. |
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1 July - 27 July 1886 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
Frederick Carne Rasch |
Conservative Unionist |
3,758 |
William Henry Wills |
Gladstone Liberal |
2,916 |
Electorate:
Turnout:
Majority:
842
Seat Status:
Conservative Hold
General Election Winners:
Conservative. The General Election of July 1886 produced a
win for the Conservative party in an informal coalition with the Liberal Unionist Party who
remained on the opposition bench for the duration of government. |
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4 July - 26 July 1892 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
Frederick Carne Rasch |
Conservative Unionist |
4,901 |
Edmund Wright Brooks |
Liberal |
4,359 |
Electorate:
13,640
Turnout:
Majority:
542
Seat Status:
Conservative Hold
General Election Winners:
Conservative. The General Election of July 1892 produced a hung
parliament. The Conservative party won the most seats but following a vote of no confidence in
August the Liberal Party formed a minority government with support from the Irish Parliamentary Party. |
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13 July - 7 August 1895 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
Frederick Carne Rasch |
Conservative Unionist |
5,460 |
David Milne-Watson |
Liberal |
3,520 |
Electorate:
Turnout:
Majority:
1,940
Seat Status:
Conservative Hold
General Election Winners:
Conservative. The General Election of July/August 1895 produced a
win for the Conservative party in coalition with the Liberal Unionist Party. |
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25 September - 24 October 1900 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
Edward Tufnell |
Conservative |
5,815 |
Rowland Edward Whitehead |
Liberal |
4,461 |
Electorate:
15,169
Turnout:
Majority:
1,354
Seat Status:
Conservative Hold
General Election Winners:
Conservative |
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12 January - 8 February 1906 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
Rowland Edward Whitehead |
Liberal |
9,230 |
John Robert Pretyman Newman* |
Conservative |
7,170 |
Electorate:
Turnout:
Majority:
2,060
Seat Status:
Liberal gain from Conservative
General Election Winners:
Liberal
*Christened John Robert Bramston Newman. |
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15 January - 10 February 1910 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
John Hendley Morrison Kirkwood |
Unionist |
11,199 |
Rowland Edward Whitehead |
Liberal |
9,288 |
Electorate:
Turnout:
Majority:
1,911
Seat Status:
-
General Election Winners:
Liberal. The General Election of January/February 1910 produced a
hung parliament. The Liberal party won the most seats and formed a minority government with
the support of the Irish Parliamentary Party. |
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3 December - 19 December 1910 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
John Hendley Morrision Kirkwood* |
Coalition Unionist |
10,108 |
John Henry Burrows |
Liberal |
8,891 |
Electorate:
Turnout:
Majority:
1,217
Seat Status:
-
General Election Winners:
Liberal. The General Election of December 1910 produced a
hung parliament. The Liberal party won the most seats and formed a minority government with
the support of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
*John Hendley Morrison Kirkwood resigned from his seat on 06th March, 1912 and on 08th
March, 1912 became a Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. His coalition Unionist successor, The
Hon. Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, retained the seat in an unopposed bye-election on 16th
March, 1912 and stood until 1918 when the South-East Essex seat was reorganised to create a new
Southend seat in which he became its first elected MP. The bye-election went unopposed as the
Liberal party declined to nominate a candidate and a Mr. Charles Stock of Pitsea had considered
standing as a Labour candidate but failed to get the support from the party. |
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14 December 1918 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
Frank Hilder |
Coalition Conservative |
11,703 |
Joseph Patrick Cotter |
Labour |
5,343 |
Sydney Walter Robinson |
Liberal |
1,372 |
Electorate:
Turnout:
Majority:
6,360
Seat Status:
-
General Election Winners:
A coalition Conservative/Liberal government was formed. The Conservative party won the
most seats. |
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15 November 1922 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
Frank Hilder |
Conservative |
13,522 |
Philip Christopher Hoffman |
Labour |
11,459 |
Electorate:
Turnout:
Majority:
2,063
Seat Status:
-
General Election Winners:
Conservative |
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6 December 1923 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
Philip Christopher Hoffman |
Labour |
13,979 |
Frank Hilder |
Conservative |
12,379 |
Electorate:
Turnout:
Majority:
1,600
Seat Status:
Labour gain from Conservative
General Election Winners:
Conservative. The General Election of 1923 produced a hung
parliament. The Conservative party won the most seats but the first ever Labour government
was formed which lasted until October 1924. |
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29 October 1924 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
Herbert William Looker |
Unionist |
19,731 |
Philip Christopher Hoffman |
Labour |
13,820 |
Electorate:
48,412
Turnout:
Majority:
5,911
Seat Status:
-
General Election Winners:
Conservative |
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30 May 1929 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
John Richard Anthony Oldfield |
Labour |
18,756 |
Herbert William Looker |
Conservative |
18,130 |
George Thomas Veness |
Liberal |
13,030 |
Electorate:
76,467
Turnout:
Majority:
626
Seat Status:
Labour gain from Conservative
General Election Winners:
Labour. The General Election of 1929 produced a hung
parliament. The Labour party won the most seats and formed a minority government. |
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27 October 1931 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon Raikes |
Conservative |
30,436 |
John Richard Anthony Oldfield |
Labour |
20,066 |
Felix Greene |
National Labour |
6,539 |
Electorate:
85,924
Turnout:
Majority:
10,370
Seat Status:
Conservative gain from Labour
General Election Winners:
Conservative |
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14 November 1935 |
| Constituency:
South-East Essex |
Candidate | Party |
Votes |
Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon Raikes |
Conservative |
25,912 |
John Richard Anthony Oldfield |
Labour |
24,942 |
Arthur Musgrove Mathews |
Liberal |
7,797 |
Electorate:
98,568
Turnout:
59.50%
Majority:
970
Seat Status:
Conservative Hold
General Election Winners:
Conservative |
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| Page added: 2001 |
Results compiled and written by William Cox, 2001 with revisions and additions 2002-2008, 2010, 2015.
Copyright © 2001-2008, 2010, 2015, B. Cox - Basildon History Online. All rights reserved. |
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