A History of Richmond (Yorks) Constituency

Richmond was first represented in Parliament in 1585 by John Pepper and Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, 1^stBaronet of Constable Burton, as one of the parliamentary boroughs in the House of Commons entitled to two MPs.

There were no descriptions from 1585 until 1640 when both Sir William Pennyman, 1^st Baronet of Ormesby and Sir Thomas Danby were ‘Royalists’. Party affiliations did not appear until 1790 when Lawrence Dundas won the seat as a Whig. Successive Whigs held Richmond until in 1846 MPs Mr. Marmaduke Wyvill and Henry Rich changed from Whig to Liberal. From 1868 only one MP represented Richmond. Liberals held the single seat until 1886, after which two Conservatives, a Liberal, a Conservative and a Unionist took turns to win. From 1929 to 2017 there have been six Conservative MPs for Richmond.

There were Labour Parliamentary Candidates for Richmond(Yorks) continuously from 1935.

Event	Labour Candidate[1]	Votes	%
General Election 1935	Alfred Jonathan Best	7,369	22.70
General Election 1945	George Henry Metcalfe	6,104	17.60
General Election 1950	F.W. Beaton	8,694	22.38
General Election 1951	Richard Hoyle	10,915	29.38
General Election 1955	Richard Hoyle	8,974	26.43
General Election 1959	Mabel McMillan	9,203	24.56
General Election 1964	Gordon A. Knott	8,908	20.7
General Election 1966	W. Patrick Lisle	10,210	24.6
General Election 1970	Michael Aldrich	12,702	26.2
General Election Feb. 1974	Edward Pearce	7,659	16.5
General Election Oct. 1974	Ian Wilkie	8,025	19.7
General Election 1979	Ken Bratton	8,173	17.35
General Election 1983	Barbara Hawkins	4,997	9.67
General Election 1987	Frank Robson	6,737	11.79
By Election 1989	Frank Robson	2,591	4.9
General Election 1992	Ross Cranston	7,523	11.6
General Election 1997	Steven Merritt	13,275	27.8
General Election 2001	Fay Tinnion	9,632	21.9
General Election 2005	Neil Foster	8,915	19.7
General Election 2010	Eileen Driver	8,150	15.3
General Election 2015	Mike Hill	7,124	13.2
General Election 2017	Dan Perry	13,350	23.42
General Election 2019	Thom Kirkwood	9,483	16.4

Barbara Hawkins 29.10.20

Acknowledgement. Information in this article is derived from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_(Yorks)_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

[1] Except Barbara Hawkins and Fay Tinnion who were Labour and Co-operative Party candidates

Richmond was first represented in Parliament in 1585 by John Pepper and Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, 1st Baronet of Constable Burton, as one of the parliamentary boroughs in the House of Commons entitled to two MPs.

Richmond was first represented in Parliament in 1585 by John Pepper and Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, 1^stBaronet of Constable Burton, as one of the parliamentary boroughs in the House of Commons entitled to two MPs.