Boothferry (UK Parliament constituency)

53.736°N 0.883°W / 53.736; -0.883

Boothferry
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
Boothferry in Humberside, showing boundaries used from 1983-1997
County	1983–1996 Humberside 1996–1997 East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire
Major settlements	Goole, Epworth and Howden
1983–1997
Seats	One
Created from	Goole, Howden, Gainsborough, Haltemprice
Replaced by	Brigg and Goole, East Yorkshire, Haltemprice and Howden, Beverley and Holderness

Boothferry was a constituency in Humberside which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.

History

This was a safe Conservative seat for the fourteen years of its existence.

Boundaries

The Borough of Boothferry, the Borough of East Yorkshire wards of Battleburn, Garrowby, Market Weighton, Pocklington, Stamford Bridge, Vale, Wilberfoss, Wold, and Woodland, and the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley wards of Cherry Holme, Skidby and Rowley, South Cave, and Walkington.

Named after the Humberside district of Boothferry, this constituency included areas which before local government reorganisation in 1974 had been in the West Riding of Yorkshire (Goole), the East Riding of Yorkshire (Howden) and Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey (Epworth and the Isle of Axholme). Apart from Goole itself, the constituency was largely rural.

As Humberside was awarded an extra seat in the boundary review implemented in 1997, the constituency was split into four, Brigg and Goole, East Yorkshire, Haltemprice and Howden and Beverley and Holderness being the destinations of the constituents in descending order.^[1]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[2]	Party
	1983	Paul Bryan	Conservative
	1987	David Davis	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished: see Brigg and Goole, East Yorkshire, Haltemprice and Howden & Beverley and Holderness

Elections

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1983: Boothferry^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul Bryan	30,536	57.7
	Liberal	Andrew Ellis	13,116	24.8
	Labour	Terry Geraghty	9,271	17.5
Majority			17,420	32.9
Turnout			52,923	73.1
	Conservative win (new seat)

General election 1987: Boothferry^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Davis	31,716	55.7	−2.0
	Liberal	Joan Davies	12,746	22.4	−2.4
	Labour	Roy Donson	12,498	21.9	+4.4
Majority			18,970	33.3	+0.4
Turnout			56,960	75.8	+2.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Boothferry^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Davis	35,266	54.8	−0.9
	Labour	Louise M. Coubrough	17,731	27.5	+5.6
	Liberal Democrats	John M. Goss	11,388	17.7	−4.7
Majority			17,535	27.3	−6.0
Turnout			64,385	79.9	+4.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	−3.3

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

Notes and references

1. C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, pp.12,196 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)
3. UK General Election results: June 1983
4. "UK General Election results: June 1987". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2008.
5. "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.