Horsham and Worthing (UK Parliament constituency)

Horsham and Worthing

Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
1918–1945
Seats| one
Created from| Horsham, Lewes and Chichester
Replaced by| Horsham and Worthing

Horsham and Worthing was a county constituency in West Sussex, centred on the towns of Horsham and Worthing in West Sussex. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

## History

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The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election. Its territory was then divided between the new constituencies of Worthing and Horsham.

## Boundaries

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The Borough of Worthing, the Urban Districts of Horsham, Shoreham, and Southwick, and the Rural Districts of Horsham, Steyning West, and Thakeham.

## Members of Parliament

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Election | Member | Party

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| 1918 | Earl Winterton | Conservative
1945 | constituency abolished: see Horsham and Worthing

Throughout its existence, the constituency elected the same MP, Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton, who had previously been MP for Horsham. When the Horsham constituency was re-established in 1945, Turnour was re-elected there, and held that seat until he stepped down at the 1951 general election after 47 years in Parliament.

## Election results

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### Elections in the 1910s

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General election 1918: Horsham and Worthing[1][2] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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C | Unionist | Edward Turnour | 15,644 | 86.0 |
| Independent | Emmanuel Rodocanachi[3] | 2,544  | 14.0  |
Majority  | 13,100  | 72.0  |
Turnout | 18,188  | 42.2  |
Registered electors | 43,142  |  |
| Unionist win (new seat)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

### Elections in the 1920s

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General election 1922: Horsham and Worthing[4] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Unionist | Edward Turnour | Unopposed
| Unionist hold
General election 1923: Horsham and Worthing [5] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Unionist | Edward Turnour | 17,925  | 66.8  | N/A
| Labour | Ernest Stanford | 8,892  | 33.2  | New
Majority  | 9,033  | 33.6  | N/A
Turnout | 26,817  | 59.0  | N/A
Registered electors | 46,438  |  |
| Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
General election 1924: Horsham and Worthing[6] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Unionist | Edward Turnour | 23,715  | 75.9  | +9.1
| Labour | Ernest Stanford | 7,537  | 24.1  | −9.1
Majority  | 16,178  | 51.8  | +18.2
Turnout | 31,252  | 65.7  | +6.7
Registered electors | 47,557  |  |
| Unionist hold | Swing | +9.1  |
General election 1929: Horsham and Worthing [7] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Unionist | Edward Turnour | 27,872  | 60.1  | −15.8
| Liberal | Percy Boyden  | 10,905  | 23.5  | New
| Labour | Helen Keynes | 7,611  | 16.4  | −7.7
Majority  | 16,967  | 36.6  | −15.2
Turnout | 46,388  | 66.1  | +0.4
Registered electors | 70,220  |  |
| Unionist hold | Swing | −4.1  |

### Elections in the 1930s

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General election 1931: Horsham and Worthing[8] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Conservative | Edward Turnour | 44,886  | 88.33  |
| Labour | Helen Keynes | 5,932  | 11.67  |
Majority  | 38,954  | 76.66  |
Turnout | 50,818  | 67.32  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
General election 1935: Horsham and Worthing[9] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Conservative | Edward Turnour | 41,478  | 76.89  |
| Labour | Harold William Paton  | 12,466  | 23.11  |
Majority  | 29,012  | 53.78  |
Turnout | 53,944  | 60.26  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |

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: Edward Turnour
* Labour: A W Wright[10]
* British Union: Jorian Jenks

## References

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1. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
2. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench
3. ^ ‘RODOCANACHI, Emmanuel Michel’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 15 Sept 2017
4. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
5. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
6. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
7. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
8. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
9. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
10. ^ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939

* Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
* Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)