Cricklade (UK Parliament constituency)

{{Short description|Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1918}}

{{Use British English|date=October 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}

{{Infobox UK constituency

|name = Wiltshire, North or Cricklade Division

|type = County

|parliament = uk

|year = 1885

|abolished = 1918

|elects_howmany = one

|previous =

|next =Swindon and partly Chippenham

}}

{{Infobox UK constituency

|name = Cricklade

|type = Borough

|parliament = uk

|year = 1295

|abolished = 1885

|elects_howmany = two

|previous =

|next =

}}

Cricklade was a parliamentary constituency named after the town of Cricklade in Wiltshire.

From 1295 until the general election of 1885, Cricklade was a parliamentary borough, returning two members of parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, previously to the House of Commons of England and House of Commons of Great Britain.

Initially this consisted of only the town of Cricklade, but from 1782 the vote was extended to the surrounding countryside as a punishment for the borough's corruption. The extended area came to include the village of Swindon, which later grew into a large town with the coming of the railways in the 19th century.

From the 1885 general election the borough was abolished, but the name was transferred to a county division of Wiltshire covering much the same area, and electing a single MP. This constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election: Cricklade joined the Chippenham constituency and a new Swindon constituency was created.

Boundaries

1832–1885: The hundreds of Highworth, Cricklade, Staple, Kingsbridge and Malmesbury, except the parliamentary borough of Malmesbury.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uq0uAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA154|title= The statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 & 3 William IV. Cap. XLV: An Act to amend the Representation of the People in England and Wales.|location= London |publisher= His Majesty's statute and law printers |date= 1832 |pages= 154–206 |access-date= 4 March 2023}}

1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Cricklade and Swindon.

Members of Parliament

=1295-1640=

{{Expand list|date=August 2008}}

  • Constituency created 1295

class="wikitable"
ParliamentFirst memberSecond member
1386rowspan="2" |John AndrewAndrew Jones{{cite web | url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/cricklade| title= History of Parliament| publisher= History of Parliament Trust| access-date = 1 November 2011}}
1388 (Feb)Thomas Weston
1388 (Sep)
1390 (Jan)?John Crouch?William Plomer
1399Robert AndrewJohn Ferrour
1413 (May)Thomas CrickladeRobert Newman
1421 (Dec)[Thomas] CrickladeGeoffrey Cowbridge
1442John Long
1427John Bailey{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/bailey-john-1436|title=BAILEY, John (d.1436), of Cricklade, Wilts. - History of Parliament Online|website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org|access-date=22 April 2018}}
1510Sir Andrew Windsor
1529Robert CurzonWilliam Rede{{cite web | url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/cricklade| title= History of Parliament| publisher= History of Parliament Trust| access-date = 1 November 2011}}
1547John Winchcombe alias SmallwoodJohn Walshe
1553 (Mar)?
1553 (Oct)Thomas ParkerWilliam Badger ?
1554 (Apr)William HampshireJohn Tunks
1554 (Nov)Thomas ParkerJohn Rede
1555Sir Nicholas PoyntzGeorge Huntley
1558William HampshireJohn Marmion
1559Sir Walter DenysJohn Astley{{cite web | url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/cricklade| title= History of Parliament| publisher= History of Parliament Trust| access-date = 1 November 2011}}
1562–3Nicholas St JohnAnthony Throckmorton
1571Sir Nicholas ArnoldGiles Brydges
1572William BrydgesJohn Higford
1584Rowland LeighRichard Smith
1586John HigfordRichard Delabere
1588–9George SniggeThomas Smith
1593Henry NoelJohn Pleydell
1597rowspan="2" |Sir George GiffordGrey Brydges{{Cite DNB|wstitle=Brydges, Grey}}
1601Robert Master
1604–1611Sir John HungerfordSir Henry Poole
1614Sir Thomas MonsonSir John Eyre
1621–1622Sir Thomas HowardSir Carew Reynell
1624rowspan="3" | Sir William HowardSir Neville Poole
1625Edward Dowse
1626Sir Robert Hyde
1628Robert JennerSir Edward Hungerford{{Cite ODNB|id=14173|title=Hungerford, Sir Edward|first=John|last=Wroughton}}
1629–1640colspan = "2"|No Parliaments summoned

=1640-1885=

class="wikitable"
Yearcolspan="2"|First memberFirst partycolspan="2"|Second memberSecond party
April 1640

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|?

November 1640

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Robert Jenner

Parliamentarian

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Thomas Hodges

Parliamentarian
December 1648

|colspan="3"|Jenner excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant

|colspan="3"|Hodges not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge

1653

|colspan="6"|Cricklade was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate

January 1659

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Edward Poole

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| John Hawkins

May 1659

|colspan="6"|Cricklade was unrepresented in the restored Rump

April 1660

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Hungerford Dunch

|

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Nevil Maskelyne

|

1661

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Sir George Hungerford

|

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| John Ernle

|

1679

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Hungerford Dunch

|

|rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="4"| Edmund Webb

|rowspan="4"|

1680

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| John Pleydell

|

1681

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| William Lenthall

|

1685

|rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="4"| Charles Fox

|rowspan="4"|

1689

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Thomas Freke

|

1690

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Edmund Webb

|

1698

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="2"| Edward Pleydell

|rowspan="2"|

1699

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="2"| Sir Stephen Fox

|rowspan="2"|

1701

|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

| Edmund Dunch

| Whig

1702

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Thomas Richmond Webb

|

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="2"| Samuel Barker

|rowspan="2"|

1705

|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

|rowspan="3"| Edmund Dunch

|rowspan="3"| Whig

1708

|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

| James Vernon the younger

| Whig

1710

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Samuel Robinson

|

1713

|rowspan="9" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="9"| Sir Thomas Reade

|rowspan="9"|

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| William GoreGore was also elected for Colchester, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Cricklade

|

1714

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Samuel Robinson

|

1715

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Jacob SawbridgeSawbridge was expelled from the House for his role in the South Sea Bubble

|

1721

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Hon. Matthew Ducie Moreton

|

1722

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Thomas Gore

|

1727

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Christopher Tilson

|

1734

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| William Gore

|

1739

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Charles Gore

|

1741

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Welbore Ellis

|

1747

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="2"| William Rawlinson Earle

|rowspan="2"|

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Lieutenant-Colonel John Gore

|

1754

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="2"| Thomas Gore

|rowspan="2"|

1761

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Arnold Nesbitt

|

1768

|

| Hon. George Damer

|

|

| Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert Fletcher

|

1774

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| William Earle

|

|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="3"| Arnold Nesbitt

|rowspan="3"|

1775

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Samuel PeachA by-election was held in December 1774 after the death of William Earle, but the result was disputed and the Returning Officer made a double return, naming both Samuel Peach and John Dewar. The Commons declared the election void, and a second election was held; Peach was initially declared elected but on petition the result was reversed and Dewar took his seat.

|

1776

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="2"| John Dewar

|rowspan="2"|

1779

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="2"| John MacphersonOn petition, Macpherson's election in 1779 was declared void and a new writ issued, but he was re-elected in the by-election. At the general election of 1780 he was again elected and his opponent again entered a petition. On investigation the Committee reported that "instances of the most notorious bribery had occurred"; the House voted that neither Macpherson nor his opponent Samuel Petrie were duly elected, and shortly afterwards passed an Act to extend the right of voting in Cricklade to the surrounding hundreds.

|rowspan="2"|

1780

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="2"| Paul Benfield

|rowspan="2"|

1782

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

| Hon. George St John

|

1784On petition the result of the election of 1784 was reversed, Coxe and Adamson being declared not duly elected and Heneage and Nicholas being seated in their place

| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

| Charles Coxe

| Whig{{cite book |last1=Stooks Smith |first1=Henry |title=The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive |date=1845 |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. |location=London |pages=110–112|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HacQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA110 }}

| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

| Robert Adamson

| Whig

1785

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |

|rowspan="2"| John Walker-Heneage

| rowspan="7" | Tory

|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |

| Robert Nicholas

| rowspan="5" | Tory

1790

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |

|rowspan="2"| Thomas Estcourt

1794

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |

|rowspan="2"| Henry Herbert

1806

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |

|rowspan="2"| Thomas Goddard

1811

|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |

| William Herbert

1812

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |

|rowspan="2"| Joseph Pitt

|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

| Thomas Calley

| Whig

1818

|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

|rowspan="3"| Robert Gordon

|rowspan="3"| Whig{{cite book|first1=Edward|last1=Churton|author-link1=Edward Churton|title=The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1838|date=1838|page=101|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVwEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA101 }}

1831

| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

| Thomas Calley

| Whig

1835

|rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|rowspan="4"| John Neeld

|rowspan="4"| Conservative

1837

|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Ambrose Goddard

| Conservative

1841

|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

| Hon. Henry Howard

| Whig{{cite news |title=Elections Decided |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/18410710/017/0006 |access-date=1 November 2018 |work=Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser |date=10 July 1841 |page=6 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |title=General Election |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000265/18410703/013/0003 |access-date=1 November 2018 |work=Western Times |date=3 July 1841 |page=3 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

1847

|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|rowspan="3"| Ambrose Goddard

|rowspan="3"| Conservative{{cite book|title=Dod's Parliamentary Companion|url=https://archive.org/details/dodsparliamenta12dodgoog|year=1847|publisher=Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited|page=[https://archive.org/details/dodsparliamenta12dodgoog/page/n176 172]}}

1859

|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

| Anthony Ashley-Cooper

| Liberal

1865

|rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|rowspan="4"| Sir Daniel Gooch

|rowspan="4"| Conservative

1868

|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

| Hon. Frederick Cadogan

| Liberal

1874

|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Ambrose Goddard

| Conservative

1880

|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

| Nevil Story Maskelyne

| Liberal

1885

|colspan="6"| Borough abolished - replaced by county constituency returning one member

=1885-1918=

class="wikitable"
colspan="2"|ElectionMemberParty
style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

| 1885

|rowspan="2"| Nevil Story Maskelyne

| Liberal

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Unionist Party}}" |

| 1886

| Liberal Unionist

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

| 1892

| John Husband

| Liberal

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Unionist Party}}" |

| 1895

| Alfred Hopkinson

| Liberal Unionist

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

| 1898

| Lord Edmond FitzMaurice

| rowspan="2" | Liberal

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

| 1906

| John Massie

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Unionist Party}}" |

| Jan. 1910

| Thomas Calley

| Liberal Unionist

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

| Dec. 1910

| Richard Cornthwaite Lambert

| Liberal

colspan="2" align="center"| 1918

|colspan="2"| constituency abolished: see Swindon

Elections

=Elections in the 1830s=

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1830: Cricklade (2 seats){{cite web |last1=Farrell |first1=Stephen |title=Cricklade |url=http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1820-1832/constituencies/cricklade |website=The History of Parliament |access-date=11 April 2020}}

}}

{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = Joseph Pitt

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Whigs (British political party)

|candidate = Robert Gordon

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{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = {{circa|1,200}}

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Tories (British political party)

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Whigs (British political party)

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{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1831: Cricklade (2 seats)

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Whigs (British political party)

|candidate = Robert Gordon

|votes = 669

|percentage = 36.3

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Whigs (British political party)

|candidate = Thomas Calley

|votes = 639

|percentage = 34.7

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Whigs (British political party)

|candidate = Philip Pleydell-Bouverie

|votes = 533

|percentage = 29.0

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 106

|percentage = 5.7

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 1,138

|percentage = {{circa|94.8}}

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = {{circa|1,200}}

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{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = Whigs (British political party)

|swing = N/A

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{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Whigs (British political party)

|loser = Tories (British political party)

|swing = N/A

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{{Election box end}}

Gordon was appointed a Commissioner for the Affairs of India, causing a by-election.

{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 16 June 1832: Cricklade

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Whigs (British political party)

|candidate = Robert Gordon

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Whigs (British political party)

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{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1832: Cricklade (2 seats)

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Whigs (British political party)

|candidate = Robert Gordon

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Whigs (British political party)

|candidate = Thomas Calley

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{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 1,546

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Whigs (British political party)

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Whigs (British political party)

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{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1835: Cricklade (2 seats)

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Whigs (British political party)

|candidate = Robert Gordon

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = John Neeld

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{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 1,640

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Whigs (British political party)

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{{Election box gain with party link no swing

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|loser = Whigs (British political party)

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{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1837: Cricklade (2 seats)

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = John Neeld

|votes = 833

|percentage = 36.4

|change = New

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Ambrose Goddard (born 1779)|Ambrose Goddard

|votes = 734

|percentage = 32.1

|change = New

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{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Whigs (British political party)

|candidate = Henry Thomas Howard

|votes = 720

|percentage = 31.5

|change = N/A

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{{Election box majority

|votes = 14

|percentage = 0.6

|change = N/A

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{{Election box turnout

|votes = 1,389

|percentage = 82.3

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 1,687

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{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|swing = N/A

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{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|loser = Whigs (British political party)

|swing = N/A

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{{Election box end}}

=Elections in the 1840s=

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1841: Cricklade (2 seats)

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Whigs (British political party)

|candidate = Henry Thomas Howard

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = John Neeld

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{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 1,663

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{{Election box gain with party link no swing

|winner = Whigs (British political party)

|loser = Conservative Party (UK)

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

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{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1847: Cricklade (2 seats)

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = John Neeld

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Ambrose Goddard

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 1,659

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

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{{Election box gain with party link no swing

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|loser = Whigs (British political party)

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{{Election box end}}

=Elections in the 1850s=

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1852: Cricklade (2 seats)

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Ambrose Goddard

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{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = John Neeld

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 1,647

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

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{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1857: Cricklade (2 seats)

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = John Neeld

|votes = 778

|percentage = 35.7

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Ambrose Goddard

|votes = 770

|percentage = 35.3

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Whigs (British political party)

|candidate = Charles James Monk{{cite news|title=Cricklade Election|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000360/18570402/005/0002|access-date=6 May 2018|work=Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette|date=2 April 1857|page=2|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news|title=New Swindon|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001955/18570321/126/0008|access-date=6 May 2018|work=Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard|date=21 March 1857|page=8|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

|votes = 633

|percentage = 29.0

|change = New

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 137

|percentage = 6.3

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 1,407 (est)

|percentage = 83.7 (est)

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 1,682

}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|swing = N/A

}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|swing = N/A

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1859: Cricklade (2 seats)

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Ambrose Goddard

|votes = 745

|percentage = 33.9

|change = −1.4

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Anthony Ashley-Cooper

|votes = 743

|percentage = 33.8

|change = +4.8

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = John Neeld

|votes = 712

|percentage = 32.4

|change = −3.3

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 1,472 (est)

|percentage = 87.0 (est)

|change = +3.3

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 1,692

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 2

|percentage = 0.1

|change = −6.2

}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|swing = −1.9

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 31

|percentage = 1.4

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Liberal Party (UK)

|loser = Conservative Party (UK)

|swing = +4.8

}}

{{Election box end}}

=Elections in the 1860s=

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1865: Cricklade (2 seats)

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Ambrose Goddard

|votes = 978

|percentage = 37.2

|change = +3.3

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Daniel Gooch

|votes = 879

|percentage = 33.4

|change = +1.0

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = William Eliot

|votes = 772

|percentage = 29.4

|change = −4.4

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 107

|percentage = 4.0

|change = +3.9

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 1,701 (est)

|percentage = 83.8 (est)

|change = −3.2

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 2,029

}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|swing = +2.8

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|loser = Liberal Party (UK)

|swing = +1.6

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1868: Cricklade (2 seats)

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Frederick William Cadogan

|votes = 2,844

|percentage = 38.9

|change = +9.5

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Daniel Gooch

|votes = 2,452

|percentage = 33.6

|change = +0.2

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Ambrose Goddard

|votes = 2,009

|percentage = 27.5

|change = −9.7

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 835

|percentage = 11.4

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 5,075 (est)

|percentage = 87.1 (est)

|change = +3.3

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 5,825

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Liberal Party (UK)

|loser = Conservative Party (UK)

|swing = +7.3

}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|swing = −2.3

}}

{{Election box end}}

=Elections in the 1870s=

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1874: Cricklade (2 seats){{cite news|title=Cricklade Election|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000359/18740212/002/0002|access-date=29 December 2017|work=Wiltshire Independent|date=12 February 1874|page=2|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Daniel Gooch

|votes = 2,624

|percentage =29.0

|change = −4.6

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Ambrose Goddard

|votes = 2,231

|percentage = 24.6

|change = −2.9

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Frederick William Cadogan

|votes = 2,092

|percentage = 23.1

|change = +3.6

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Henry Tucker{{cite news|title=Cricklade|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000167/18740128/013/0003|access-date=29 December 2017|work=Huddersfield Chronicle|date=28 January 1874|page=3|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

|votes = 1,578

|percentage = 17.4

|change = −2.1

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Liberal-Labour (UK)

|candidate = William Morris{{cite news|title=The Labourers' Union|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000532/18740110/056/0003|access-date=29 December 2017|work=Gloucester Journal|date=10 January 1874|page=3|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

|votes = 497

|percentage = 5.5

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Independent Liberal

|candidate = John Arkell{{cite news|title=The election expenses of the candidates for the borough and hundreds of Cricklade|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000406/18740417/047/0006|access-date=29 December 2017|work=Western Gazette|date=17 April 1874|page=6|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

|votes = 40

|percentage = 0.4

|change = New

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 139

|percentage = 1.5

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 4,800 (est)

|percentage = 75.9 (est)

|change = −11.2

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 6,325

}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|swing = −4.1

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|loser = Liberal Party (UK)

|swing = −0.4

}}

{{Election box end}}

=Elections in the 1880s=

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1880: Cricklade (2 seats){{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|format=}}

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Nevil Story Maskelyne

|votes = 4,350

|percentage = 50.9

|change = +10.4

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Daniel Gooch

|votes = 2,441

|percentage = 28.6

|change = −0.4

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Algernon Neeld{{cite news|title=Cricklade Borough|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001955/18830623/154/0008|access-date=25 November 2017|work=Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard|date=23 June 1883|page=8|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

|votes = 1,748

|percentage = 20.5

|change = −4.1

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 2,602

|percentage = 30.4

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 6,791 (est)

|percentage = 90.9 (est)

|change = +15.0

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 7,473

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Liberal Party (UK)

|loser = Conservative Party (UK)

|swing = +7.3

}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = Conservative Party (UK)

|swing = N/A

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1885: CrickladeBritish parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Nevil Story Maskelyne

|votes = 4,541

|percentage = 62.1

|change = +11.2

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate =William Stone

|votes =2,770

|percentage = 37.9

|change = −11.2

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 1,771

|percentage = 24.2

|change = -6.2

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 7,311

|percentage = 81.0

|change = −9.9 (est)

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 9,031

}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = Liberal Party (UK)

|swing = +11.2

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1886: Cricklade

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Unionist Party (UK)

|candidate = Nevil Story Maskelyne

|votes = 3,401

|percentage = 53.7

|change = +15.8

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe

|votes =1,683

|percentage = 26.6

|change = -35.5

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Independent Liberal

|candidate = Sir John Bennett|John Bennett

|votes =1,247

|percentage = 19.7

|change = New

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 1,718

|percentage = 27.1

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 6,331

|percentage = 70.1

|change = -10.9

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 9,031

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Liberal Unionist Party (UK)

|loser = Liberal Party (UK)

|swing = +25.7

}}

{{Election box end}}

  • Costelloe contested previous general election as Conservative

=Elections in the 1890s=

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1892: Cricklade

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = John Husband

|votes = 4,569

|percentage = 56.1

|change = +29.5

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Unionist Party (UK)

|candidate = Nevil Story Maskelyne

|votes =3,571

|percentage = 43.9

|change = -9.8

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 998

|percentage = 12.2

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 8,140

|percentage = 77.1

|change = +7.0

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 10,561

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Liberal Party (UK)

|loser = Liberal Unionist Party (UK)

|swing = +19.7

}}

{{Election box end}}

File:Alfred Hopkinson (1851-1939).jpg

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1895: Cricklade

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Unionist Party (UK)

|candidate = Alfred Hopkinson

|votes =4,679

|percentage = 50.5

|change = +6.6

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Edmond Petty-Fitzmaurice

|votes = 4,580

|percentage = 49.5

|change = −6.6

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 99

|percentage = 1.0

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 9,259

|percentage = 84.2

|change = +7.1

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 10,994

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Liberal Unionist Party (UK)

|loser = Liberal Party (UK)

|swing = +6.6

}}

{{Election box end}}

File:3rdEarlOfCawdor.jpg

{{Election box begin | title=1898 Cricklade by-election

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Edmond Petty-Fitzmaurice

|votes = 5,624

|percentage = 52.3

|change = +2.8

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Frederick Campbell

|votes =5,135

|percentage = 47.7

|change = -2.8

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 489

|percentage = 4.6

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 10,759

|percentage = 90.3

|change = +6.1

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 11,911

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Liberal Party (UK)

|loser = Liberal Unionist Party (UK)

|swing = +2.8

}}

{{Election box end}}

=Elections in the 1900s=

File:Arnold Ward 1906 postcard.jpg

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1900: Cricklade

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Edmond Petty-Fitzmaurice

|votes = 5,754

|percentage = 53.9

|change = +4.4

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate =Ernest St Clair Pemberton

|votes =4,920

|percentage = 46.1

|change = −4.4

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 834

|percentage = 7.8

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 10,674

|percentage = 85.8

|change = +1.6

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 12,441

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Liberal Party (UK)

|loser = Liberal Unionist Party

|swing = +4.4

}}

{{Election box end}}

File:1906 John Massie MP.jpg

{{Election box begin | title=General election 1906: Cricklade

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = John Massie

|votes = 7,294

|percentage = 56.1

|change = +2.2

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Conservative Party (UK)

|candidate = Arnold Ward

|votes =5,716

|percentage = 43.9

|change = -2.2

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 1,578

|percentage = 12.2

|change = +4.4

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 13,010

|percentage = 90.4

|change = +4.6

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = 14,390

}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = Liberal Party (UK)

|swing = +2.2

}}

{{Election box end}}

=Elections in the 1910s=

File:Thomas_Calley.jpg

{{Election box begin

|title=General election January 1910: Cricklade

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Unionist Party (UK)

|candidate = Thomas Calley

|votes =7,389

|percentage = 52.2

|change = +8.3

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = John Massie

|votes = 6,754

|percentage = 47.8

|change = -8.3

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 635

|percentage = 4.4

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 14,143

|percentage = 93.0

|change = +2.6

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Liberal Unionist Party (UK)

|loser = Liberal Party (UK)

|swing = +8.3

}}

{{Election box end}}

File:1910 Richard Cornthwaite Lambert MP.jpg

{{Election box begin

|title=General election December 1910: Cricklade

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Richard Cornthwaite Lambert

|votes = 6,937

|percentage = 50.5

|change = +2.7

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Liberal Unionist Party (UK)

|candidate = Thomas Calley

|votes =6,809

|percentage = 49.5

|change = -2.7

}}

{{Election box majority

|votes = 128

|percentage = 1.0

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout

|votes = 13,746

|percentage = 90.4

|change = -2.6

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Liberal Party (UK)

|loser = Liberal Unionist Party (UK)

|swing = +2.7

}}

{{Election box end}}

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;

Notes

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