| Cleveland | |
| Type: | County |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | February 1974 |
| Elects Howmany: | 1 |
| Previous: | North Riding of Yorkshire |
| Next: | Cleveland and Whitby and Redcar |
Cleveland was a county constituency in the Langbaurgh Wapentake (also known as Cleveland), North Riding of Yorkshire, England.
It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons, using the first past the post voting system. All elections were conducted with a secret ballot, which had been introduced under the Ballot Act 1872.
The franchise was initially restricted, and extended on several occasions:
The Cleveland constituency was created when the North Riding of Yorkshire constituency was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and Cleveland then covered the northern tip of the North Riding.
In 1918 it was redefined in terms of local government areas, and covered part of Guisborough Rural District and the Middlesbrough Rural District, along with the urban districts of Eston, Guisborough, Hinderwell, Loftus, Redcar, Saltburn by the Sea and Skelton and Brotton. In 1948 it was redefined again to cover Eston, Guisborough, Loftus, Redcar, Saltburn and Marske by the Sea and Skelton and Brotton; the new boundaries were first used for the 1950 general election. As such it was a socially mixed constituency throughout its existence, containing working class Middlesbrough suburbs and ironstone mining villages as well as middle class resorts and agricultural communities.
It returned its last Member of Parliament in 1970, by which time Cleveland district of Yorkshire's North Riding had been abolished in 1967, to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until it was abolished leading up to the February 1974 general election.
It was replaced by the Redcar constituency and Cleveland & Whitby constituency.
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | constituency created | |||
| 1885 | Henry Fell Pease | Liberal | ||
| 1897 by-election | Alfred Pease | Liberal | ||
| Herbert Samuel | Liberal | |||
| 1918 | Sir Park Goff | Coalition Conservative | ||
| 1923 | Sir Charles Starmer | Liberal | ||
| 1924 | Sir Park Goff | Unionist | ||
| 1929 | William Mansfield | Labour | ||
| 1931 | Robert Tatton Bower | Conservative | ||
| 1945 | George Willey | Labour | ||
| 1952 by-election | Arthur Palmer | Labour | ||
| 1959 | Wilfred Proudfoot | Conservative | ||
| 1964 | James Tinn | Labour | ||
| Feb 1974 | constituency abolished: see Cleveland & Whitby | |||
Pease's death causes a by-election.
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 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 from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. .