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Frome (UK Parliament constituency)

For the constituency in Australia, see Electoral district of Frome.

Frome was a constituency centred on the town of Frome in Somerset. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832, until it was abolished for the 1950 general election. Between 1832 and 1885, it was a parliamentary borough; after 1885 it was a county constituency, a division of Somerset.

Frome
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
CountySomerset
Major settlementsFrome
1885–1950
SeatsOne
Replaced byNorth Somerset and Wells
1832–1885
SeatsOne
Type of constituencyBorough constituency

History edit

Frome was one of the boroughs created by the Great Reform Act of 1832,[1] as the town was at that point one of the bigger towns in England which was not already represented, and its then-flourishing woollen manufacturing industry made it seem likely to grow further. The new borough consisted only of the town of Frome, and had a population (according to the 1831 census) of approximately 11,240. The registered electorate at the 1832 election was 322. Frome was near to Longleat, and the Marquess of Bath was influential in election outcomes throughout its life as a borough.

However, the town did not increase dramatically in size in the next few years, and the electorate was still only just over 400 by 1865, although the extension of the franchise at the 1868 election trebled this. By the time of the Third Reform Act, Frome was too small to continue as a constituency in itself and the borough was abolished with effect from the 1885 election.

The new county division into which the town was placed consisted of the whole north-eastern corner of Somerset, except for Bath, and was named after the town, as The Frome Division of Somerset. Nevertheless, Frome contributed only a minority of the voters in the constituency, which also included Weston (Bath), Radstock, Bathampton and Batheaston, to say nothing of the freeholders of Bath, who voted in this division under the arrangements that gave property owners in boroughs a vote in the adjoining county constituency; by the time of the First World War, the population was around 60,000. This constituency was a mixed one, with suburban voters at Weston and in the Bath suburbs, agricultural villages between Bath and Frome, growing mining interests round Radstock and some industry at Twerton. This made the constituency marginal between the Conservatives and Liberals, and the victor's majority was rarely more than a few hundred votes.

There were further boundary changes in 1918, when the number of constituencies in Somerset was reduced from nine to seven. Frome's boundaries were extended westwards to the fringes of Bristol, bringing in Midsomer Norton and the areas round Clutton, Chew Magna and Keynsham (previously in the Northern division): the revised constituency consisted of the urban districts of Frome, Midsomer Norton and Radstock, the Bath, Clutton and Keynsham rural districts and all but six parishes of Frome Rural District. This, too, was a marginal constituency, and except in 1923 was always won at general elections by the party which was successful nationally.

The Frome constituency was abolished in the boundary changes which came into effect at the 1950 election, Frome itself being transferred to the Wells division but most of the remainder of the constituency forming the bulk of the new Somerset North.

Members of Parliament edit

Frome parliamentary borough edit

ElectionMemberPartyNotes
1832Thomas Sheppard[2]Whig[3]
1835Conservative[3]
1847Hon. Robert Boyle[2]Whig[4][5]4th son of Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork
1854 by-electionRichard Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan[2]Whig[6][7]later 9th Earl of Cork
1856 by-electionHon. William Boyle[2]Whig[8][9]younger brother of Richard Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan
1857Donald Nicoll[2]Radical[8][9][10][11]
1859Lord Edward Thynne[2]Conservativepreviously MP for Weobley 1826–32
1865Sir Henry Rawlinson, Bt.[2]Liberalnoted orientalist, previously MP for Reigate
1868Thomas Hughes[2]Liberalauthor of Tom Brown's Schooldays
1874Henry Lopes[2]Conservativepreviously MP for Launceston, later a Lord Justice of Appeal
1876 by-electionHenry Samuelson[2]Liberalpreviously MP for Cheltenham
1885parliamentary borough constituency abolished, name transferred to a new county division

Frome division of Somerset edit

ElectionMemberParty
1885Lawrence James BakerLiberal
1886Thomas Thynne, Viscount WeymouthConservative
1892John BarlowLiberal
1895Thomas Thynne, Viscount WeymouthConservative
1896Sir John BarlowLiberal
1918Percy HurdUnionist
1923Frederick GouldLabour
1924Geoffrey PetoUnionist
1929Frederick GouldLabour
1931Henry Thynne, Viscount WeymouthConservative
1935Mavis TateConservative
1945Walter FarthingLabour
1950constituency abolished

Elections edit

Elections in the 1830s edit

General election 1832: Frome [12][3]
PartyCandidateVotes%
WhigThomas Sheppard 163 62.0
WhigSir Thomas Swymmer Mostyn-Champneys, 2nd Baronet10038.0
Majority6324.0
Turnout26381.7
Registered electors322
Whig win (new seat)
General election 1835: Frome [12][3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
ConservativeThomas Sheppard 100 43.7 New
RadicalMatthew Bridges[13]7834.1N/A
WhigCourtenay Boyle5122.3−15.7
Majority229.6−14.4
Turnout22980.4−1.3
Registered electors285
Conservative gain from WhigSwing−1.3
General election 1837: Frome [12][3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
ConservativeThomas Sheppard 124 50.8 +7.1
WhigCourtenay Boyle12049.2+26.9
Majority41.6−8.0
Turnout24483.8+3.4
Registered electors291
Conservative holdSwing−9.9

Elections in the 1840s edit

General election 1841: Frome [12][3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
ConservativeThomas Sheppard 154 54.4 +3.6
WhigWilliam Jesser Sturch12945.6−3.6
Majority258.8+7.2
Turnout28383.2−0.6
Registered electors340
Conservative holdSwing+3.6
General election 1847: Frome [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
WhigRobert Edward BoyleUnopposed
Registered electors412
Whig gain from Conservative

Elections in the 1850s edit

General election 1852: Frome [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
WhigRobert Edward BoyleUnopposed
Registered electors383
Whig hold

The election was declared void on petition after Boyle was declared ineligible due to his holding of the office of Secretary to the Order of St Patrick. Ahead of the ensuing by-election, Boyle resigned this position.[14]

By-election, 7 March 1853: Frome [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
WhigRobert Edward BoyleUnopposed
Whig hold

Boyle's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 24 October 1854: Frome [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
WhigRichard Boyle 181 58.4 N/A
RadicalDonald Nicoll12941.6N/A
Majority5216.8N/A
Turnout31084.9N/A
Registered electors365
Whig holdSwingN/A

Boyle succeeded to the peerage, becoming 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery, causing a by-election.

By-election, 23 July 1856: Frome [12][8][9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
WhigWilliam George Boyle 158 50.2 N/A
RadicalDonald Nicoll15749.8N/A
Majority10.4N/A
Turnout31586.1N/A
Registered electors366
Whig holdSwingN/A
General election 1857: Frome [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RadicalDonald Nicoll 162 49.7 N/A
WhigWilliam George Boyle9228.2N/A
ConservativeEdward Thynne7222.1New
Majority7021.5N/A
Turnout32689.8N/A
Registered electors363
Radical gain from WhigSwingN/A
General election 1859: Frome [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
ConservativeEdward Thynne 194 56.9 +34.8
LiberalDonald Nicoll14743.1−34.8
Majority4713.8N/A
Turnout34188.6−1.2
Registered electors385
Conservative gain from LiberalSwing+34.8

Elections in the 1860s edit

General election 1865: Frome [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalHenry Rawlinson 206 53.0 +9.9
ConservativeJames Whalley Dawe Thomas Wickham[15]18347.0−9.9
Majority236.0N/A
Turnout38994.0+5.4
Registered electors414
Liberal gain from ConservativeSwing+9.9
General election 1868: Frome [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalThomas Hughes 571 54.5 +1.5
ConservativeWilliam Campbell Sleigh47645.5−1.5
Majority959.0+3.0
Turnout1,04782.6−11.4
Registered electors1,267
Liberal holdSwing+1.5

Elections in the 1870s edit

General election 1874: Frome [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
ConservativeHenry Lopes 642 53.5 +8.0
LiberalWilliam Henry Willans[16]55746.5−8.0
Majority857.0N/A
Turnout1,19990.4+7.8
Registered electors1,327
Conservative gain from LiberalSwing+8.0

Lopes resigned after being appointed a judge of the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of Justice.

By-election, 24 Nov 1876: Frome [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalHenry Samuelson 661 53.8 +7.3
ConservativeJames Fergusson56846.2−7.3
Majority937.6N/A
Turnout1,22991.0+0.6
Registered electors1,351
Liberal gain from ConservativeSwing+7.3

Elections in the 1880s edit

General election 1880: Frome [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalHenry SamuelsonUnopposed
Registered electors1,383
Liberal gain from Conservative
General election 1885: Frome [17][18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalLawrence James Baker 4,735 54.4 N/A
ConservativeThomas Thynne3,97245.6New
Majority7638.8N/A
Turnout8,70782.9N/A
Registered electors10,498
Liberal holdSwingN/A
General election 1886: Frome [17][18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
ConservativeThomas Thynne 4,348 54.4 +8.8
LiberalGodfrey Samuelson3,64545.6-8.8
Majority7038.8N/A
Turnout7,99376.1-6.8
Registered electors10,498
Conservative gain from LiberalSwing+8.8

Elections in the 1890s edit

General election 1892: Frome [17][18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalJohn Barlow 4,747 52.7 +7.1
ConservativeThomas Thynne4,26047.3-7.1
Majority4875.4N/A
Turnout9,00781.7+5.6
Registered electors11,031
Liberal gain from ConservativeSwing+7.1
General election 1895: Frome [17][18][19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
ConservativeThomas Thynne 5,043 52.0 +4.7
LiberalJohn Barlow4,66048.0-4.7
Majority3834.0N/A
Turnout9,70383.4+1.7
Registered electors11,633
Conservative gain from LiberalSwing+4.7
Barlow
1896 Frome by-election[17][18][19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalJohn Barlow 5,062 51.5 +3.5
ConservativeAlexander Thynne4,76348.5-3.5
Majority2993.0N/A
Turnout9,82583.7+0.3
Registered electors11,736
Liberal gain from ConservativeSwing+3.5

Elections in the 1900s edit

Barlow
General election 1900: Frome [17][18][19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalJohn Barlow 5,066 51.8 +3.8
ConservativeEllis Hume-Williams4,70848.2−3.8
Majority3583.6N/A
Turnout9,77479.4−4.0
Registered electors12,317
Liberal gain from ConservativeSwing+3.8
General election 1906: Frome [17][18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalJohn Barlow 6,297 58.0 +6.2
ConservativeCharles Foxcroft4,55242.0−6.2
Majority1,74516.0+12.4
Turnout10,84986.0+6.6
Registered electors12,612
Liberal holdSwing+6.2

Elections in the 1910s edit

General election January 1910: Frome [17][20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalJohn Barlow 6,248 53.3 -4.7
ConservativeCharles Foxcroft5,46946.7+4.7
Majority7796.6-9.4
Turnout11,71789.0+3.0
Liberal holdSwing-4.7
General election December 1910: Frome [17][20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalJohn Barlow 5,944 52.6 -0.7
ConservativeCharles Foxcroft5,36647.4+0.7
Majority5785.2-1.4
Turnout11,31085.9-3.1
Liberal holdSwing-0.7

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

General election December 1918: Frome[21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CUnionistPercy Hurd11,11846.6−0.8
LabourEdward Gill10,45443.9New
LiberalJohn Barlow2,0048.4−44.2
NationalThomas Kincaid-Smith2581.1New
Majority6642.7N/A
Turnout23,83467.7−18.2
Registered electors35,222
Unionist gain from LiberalSwing+21.7
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s edit

General election 1922: Frome[21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UnionistPercy Hurd 15,017 51.2 +4.6
LabourEdward Gill14,31148.8+4.9
Majority7062.4−0.3
Turnout29,32882.2+14.5
Registered electors35,698
Unionist holdSwing−0.2
General election 1923: Frome [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LabourFrederick Gould 15,902 54.4 +5.6
UnionistPercy Hurd13,30645.6−5.6
Majority2,5968.8N/A
Turnout29,20879.7−2.5
Registered electors36,628
Labour gain from UnionistSwing+5.6
General election 1924: Frome[21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UnionistGeoffrey Peto 16,397 52.8 +7.2
LabourFrederick Gould14,65247.2−7.2
Majority1,7455.6N/A
Turnout31,04982.9+3.2
Registered electors37,438
Unionist gain from LabourSwing+7.2
General election 1929: Frome [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LabourFrederick Gould 18,524 45.5 −1.7
UnionistGeoffrey Peto16,37840.3−12.5
LiberalColin Stratton-Hallett5,77414.2New
Majority2,1465.2N/A
Turnout40,67686.5+3.6
Registered electors47,039
Labour gain from UnionistSwing+5.4

Elections in the 1930s edit

General election 1931: Frome[21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
ConservativeHenry Thynne 24,858 58.3 +18.0
LabourFrederick Gould17,74841.7-3.8
Majority7,11016.6N/A
Turnout42,60687.3+0.8
Conservative gain from LabourSwing+10.9
General election 1935: Frome [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
ConservativeMavis Tate 19,684 46.3 -12.0
LabourKim Mackay18,69043.9+2.2
LiberalPhilip William Hopkins4,1779.8New
Majority9942.4-14.2
Turnout42,55182.5-4.8
Conservative holdSwing-7.1

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;

Elections in the 1940s edit

General election 1945: Frome[21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LabourWalter Farthing 29,735 55.1 +11.2
ConservativeMavis Tate24,22844.9-1.4
Majority5,50710.2N/A
Turnout53,96378.4-4.1
Labour gain from ConservativeSwing+6.8

References edit

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