Goole (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°42′14″N 0°52′16″W / 53.704°N 0.871°W

Goole
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	1950-1974 West Riding of Yorkshire 1974-1983 Humberside, South Yorkshire
1950–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Doncaster North, Boothferry, Pontefract & Castleford and Selby[1]
Created from	Pontefract

Goole was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Goole in the West Riding of Yorkshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

It was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.

Boundaries

The Municipal Borough of Goole, the Urban District of Knottingley, and the Rural Districts of Goole, Osgoldcross, and Thorne.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1950	George Jeger	Labour	Died 1971
	1971 by-election	Edmund Marshall	Labour
	1983	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Goole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Jeger	25,635	60.33
	Conservative	Frederick William Farey-Jones	16,853	39.67
Majority			8,782	20.67
Turnout				85.46
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Goole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Jeger	26,088	60.44
	National Liberal	Anthony Freire Marreco	17,073	39.56
Majority			9,015	20.89
Turnout				84.17
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Goole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Jeger	25,420	62.19
	Conservative	Gavin Welby	15,456	37.81
Majority			9,964	24.38
Turnout				78.32
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Goole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Jeger	26,352	61.38
	Conservative	Douglas Sisson	16,581	38.62
Majority			9,771	22.76
Turnout				80.71
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Goole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Jeger	25,256	60.34
	Conservative	Cyril Donald Chapman	15,435	36.88
	Communist	William Carr	1,165	2.78
Majority			9,821	23.46
Turnout				77.44
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Goole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Jeger	26,117	63.64
	Conservative	Richard M. Whitfield	13,969	34.04
	Communist	William Carr	952	2.32
Majority			12,148	29.60
Turnout				73.14
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Goole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Jeger	26,424	60.22
	Conservative	Ian R. Bloomer	17,457	39.78
Majority			8,967	20.43
Turnout			43,881	69.47
	Labour hold		Swing

Goole by-election, 1971

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Edmund Marshall	24,323	68.88	+8.66
	Conservative	Ian R. Bloomer	10,990	31.12	-8.66
Majority			13,333	37.76
Turnout			35,313
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Goole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Edmund Marshall	30,245	61.21
	Conservative	NP Kemp	17,020	34.44
	Independent	JT Clarkson	2,150	4.35
Majority			13,225	26.76
Turnout				77.18
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Goole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Edmund Marshall	26,804	59.84
	Conservative	NP Kemp	12,707	28.37
	Liberal	JT Clarkson	5,285	11.80
Majority			14,097	31.47
Turnout				69.31
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Goole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Edmund Marshall	27,690	57.56
	Conservative	F Higgins	16,439	34.17
	Liberal	A Davidson	3,976	8.27
Majority			11,251	23.39
Turnout				72.84
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. "'Goole', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 22 March 2016.

External links

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)