Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)

Camborne was a county constituency in Cornwall which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Falmouth and Camborne.

Camborne
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
Camborne in Cornwall and Devon, 1918–45
1885–1950
Seats	One
Created from	West Cornwall
Replaced by	Falmouth and Camborne and St Ives

Between 1885 and 1918 its official name was The North West or Camborne Division of Cornwall, and it was sometimes referred to simply as North West Cornwall.

Boundaries

1885–1918: Part of the Sessional Division of Penwith East, and the civil parishes of Gwennap and St Agnes.

1918–1950: The Borough of Helston, the Urban Districts of Camborne, Hayle, Phillack, and Redruth, the Rural District of Redruth, in the Rural District of East Kerrier the parishes of Constantine, Mabe, and Perranarworthal, in the Rural District of Helston the parishes of Crowan and Wendron, and in the Rural District of Truro the parishes of Kea, Kenwyn Rural, Perranzabuloe, St Agnes, St Allen, and Tregavethan.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Charles Conybeare	Liberal
	1895	Arthur Strauss	Liberal Unionist
	1900	William Sproston Caine	Liberal
	1903 by-election	Sir Wilfrid Lawson	Liberal
	1906	Albert Dunn	Liberal
	1910	Sir Francis Acland	Liberal
	1922	Algernon Moreing	National Liberal
	1923	Leif Jones	Independent Liberal (sat with Liberal Party when elected)
	1924	Algernon Moreing	Constitutionalist
	1924		Unionist
	1929	Leif Jones	Liberal
	1931	Sir Peter Agnew	Conservative
1950		constituency abolished

Elections

Camborne electoral history

Elections in the 1880s

Charles Conybeare

General election 1885: Camborne^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	Charles Conybeare	2,926	53.2
	Liberal	Arthur Vivian	2,577	46.8
Majority			349	6.4
Turnout			5,503	77.1
Registered electors			7,139
	Independent Liberal win (new seat)

General election 1886: Camborne^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Conybeare	3,156	61.6	+14.8
	Liberal Unionist	James Drew Gay[3]	1,969	38.4	New
Majority			1,187	23.2	+16.8
Turnout			5,125	71.8	−5.3
Registered electors			7,139
	Liberal gain from Liberal		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Camborne^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Conybeare	3,073	53.8	−7.8
	Liberal Unionist	Arthur Strauss	2,635	46.2	+7.8
Majority			438	7.6	−15.6
Turnout			5,708	75.0	+3.2
Registered electors			7,611
	Liberal hold		Swing	-7.8

Arthur Strauss

General election 1895: Camborne^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Arthur Strauss	3,166	53.9	+7.7
	Liberal	Charles Conybeare	2,704	46.1	−7.7
Majority			462	7.8	N/A
Turnout			5,870	75.3	+0.3
Registered electors			7,800
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+7.7

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Camborne^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Sproston Caine	3,101	50.9	+4.8
	Liberal Unionist	Arthur Strauss	2,993	49.1	−4.8
Majority			108	1.8	N/A
Turnout			6,094	76.0	+0.7
Registered electors			8,023
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+4.8

Lawson

1903 Camborne by-election^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wilfrid Lawson	3,558	55.4	+4.5
	Liberal Unionist	Arthur Strauss	2,869	44.6	−4.5
Majority			689	10.8	+9.0
Turnout			6,427	74.2	−1.8
Registered electors			8,659
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.5

Edward Dunn

General election 1906: Camborne^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Albert Dunn	4,614	65.0	+14.1
	Conservative	Thomas Hewitt (politician)	2,384	33.5	−15.6
	Social Democratic Federation	Jack Jones	109	1.5	New
Majority			2,230	31.5	+29.7
Turnout			7,107	77.2	+1.2
Registered electors			9,210
	Liberal hold		Swing	+14.9

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Camborne^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Albert Dunn	5,027	66.0	+1.0
	Liberal Unionist	Norman G Chamberlain	2,587	34.0	+0.5
Majority			2,440	32.0	+0.5
Turnout			7,614	81.2	+4.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.5

General election December 1910: Camborne^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Francis Dyke Acland	4,419	65.5	−0.5
	Liberal Unionist	George Coates	2,326	34.5	+0.5
Majority			2,093	31.0	−1.0
Turnout			6,745	71.9	−1.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.5

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;

• Liberal: Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland
• Unionist:

Francis Acland

General election 1918: Camborne^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Francis Dyke Acland	7,078	52.0	−13.5
	Labour	George Nicholls	6,546	48.0	New
Majority			532	4.0	−27.0
Turnout			13,624	41.8	−30.1
	Liberal hold		Swing

• No Coupon was issued

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Camborne^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Algernon Moreing	8,191	39.7	N/A
	Liberal	Leifchild Jones	7,923	38.4	−13.6
	Labour	Tom Proctor	4,512	21.9	−26.1
Majority			268	1.3	N/A
Turnout			20,626	60.5	+18.7
	National Liberal gain from Liberal		Swing

General election 1923: Camborne^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	Leifchild Jones	11,794	59.3	+20.9
	Liberal	Algernon Moreing	8,096	40.7	+1.0
Majority			3,698	18.6	N/A
Turnout			19,890	58.0	−2.5
	Independent Liberal gain from Liberal		Swing	+10.0

• The local Liberal Association was unable to agree on a candidate, but Moreing was recognised as the official candidate by Liberal Party HQ.

General election 1924: Camborne^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutionalist	Algernon Moreing	9,530	42.9	+2.2
	Liberal	Leifchild Jones	7,220	32.5	−8.2
	Labour	F. A. P. Rowe	5,477	24.6	New
Majority			2,310	10.4	N/A
Turnout			22,227	64.6	+6.6
	Constitutionalist gain from Liberal		Swing

General election 1929: Camborne^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Leifchild Jones	11,176	35.8	+3.3
	Unionist	Algernon Moreing	10,145	32.6	−10.3
	Labour	H J Sharman	7,870	25.3	+0.7
	Independent	J C Roberts	1,976	6.3	New
Majority			1,031	3.2	N/A
Turnout			31,167	70.8	+6.2
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+6.8

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Camborne^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Agnew	14,664	43.4	+10.8
	Liberal	Leifchild Jones	10,840	32.1	−3.7
	Ind. Labour Party	Kate Spurrell	8,280	24.5	New
Majority			3,824	11.3	N/A
Turnout			33,784	75.8	+5.0
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

General election 1935: Camborne^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Agnew	14,826	48.3	+4.9
	Liberal	Walter Peacock	7,921	25.8	−6.3
	Labour	Harold R. G. Greaves	7,375	24.0	New
	Ind. Labour Party	Kate Spurrell	592	1.9	−22.6
Majority			6,905	22.5	+11.2
Turnout			30,714	66.9	−8.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

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;

• Conservative: Peter Agnew
• Liberal:
• Labour: J J H Moses

General election 1945: Camborne^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Agnew	12,257	37.1	−11.2
	Labour	Harold Hayman	11,673	35.3	+11.3
	Liberal	Thomas Rowland Hill	9,141	27.6	+1.8
Majority			584	1.8	−20.7
Turnout			33,071	64.3	−2.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

See also

• Cornwall portal

• Camborne and Redruth (UK Parliament constituency)
• Falmouth and Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)