Brigg (UK Parliament constituency)

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Brigg was a county constituency centred on the town of Brigg in North Lincolnshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election. See Brigg and Scunthorpe for the constituency which replaced this one.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1885	Sir Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson, Bt.	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist/meta/color" |	1886		Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1886	Samuel Danks Waddy	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1894	John Maunsell Richardson	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1895	Harold James Reckitt	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1907	Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1910 (January)	Sir William Alfred Gelder	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1918	Charles Wesley Weldon McLean	Coalition Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1922	Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1929	David John Kinsley Quibell	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1931	Michael John Hunter	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1935	David Quibell	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1945	Tom Williamson	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1948 by-election	Lance Mallalieu	Labour
Feb 1974		constituency abolished: see Brigg and Scunthorpe

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

Brigg by-election, 1948

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lance Mallalieu	27,333	54.6	−4.3
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	22,746	45.4	+4.3
Majority			4,587	9.2	−8.6
Turnout			50,079	77.1	+0.5
	Labour hold		Swing	−4.3

See also

• Brigg by-election, 1948

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages