{{Short description|UK Parliament constituency (1542–1918)}} {{morefootnotes|date=January 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox UK constituency main |name = Flint Boroughs |parliament = uk |map1 = |map2 = |map_entity = |map_year = |year = 1542 |abolished = 1918 |type = District of Boroughs |elects_howmany = One |previous = |next = Flintshire |region = Wales |county = Flintshire }} '''Flint Boroughs''' (sometimes known as '''Flint''' or the '''Flint District of Boroughs''') was a parliamentary constituency in north-east Wales which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessors, from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1918 general election.
==Boundaries== From its first known general election in 1542 until 1918, the constituency consisted of a number of boroughs within the historic county of Flintshire in north-east Wales. The seat should not be confused with the county constituency of Flintshire, which existed from the 16th century until 1950.
After 1918 Flintshire was represented in Parliament by the single member county constituency, which included all the boroughs formerly in the Flint District of Boroughs.
===Flint 1535–1832=== On the basis of information from several volumes of the ''History of Parliament'', it is apparent that the history of the borough representation of Wales and Monmouthshire is more complicated than that of the English boroughs.
The Laws in Wales Act 1535 (26 Hen. 8. c. 26) provided for a single borough seat for each of 11 of the 12 Welsh counties and Monmouthshire. The legislation was ambiguous as to which communities were enfranchised. The county towns were awarded a seat, but these seats in some way represented all the ancient boroughs of the county, as the boroughs other than county towns were also required to contribute to the members' wages. It is not clear whether the burgesses of the contributing boroughs could vote in the election. The only election under the original scheme was that for the 1542 parliament. It seems that only burgesses from the county towns actually took part. The Parliament Act 1543 (35 Hen. 8. c. 11) confirmed that the contributing boroughs could send representatives to take part in the election at the county town. As far as can be told from surviving indentures of returns, the degree to which the out boroughs participated varied, but by the end of the 16th century all the seats had some participation from them at some elections at least.
The original scheme was modified by later legislation and decisions of the House of Commons (which were sometimes made with no regard to precedent or evidence: for example in 1728 it was decided that only the freemen of the borough of Montgomery could participate in the election for that seat, thus disenfranchising the freemen of Llanidloes, Welshpool and Llanfyllin).
In the case of Flintshire, the county town was Flint. The out boroughs were Caergwrle, Caerwys, Overton and Rhuddlan.
In 1690–1715 the freemen of the five boroughs were entitled to vote. The exact number is unknown, but in the only poll of the period (a by-election in 1697) there were 760 voters.
Between 1715 and 1754 the House of Commons changed the franchise of the constituency. In 1727 there were about 1000 freemen entitled to vote. Thereafter the inhabitants of the five boroughs, paying scot and lot (a local tax), formed the electorate. They numbered about 600.
From 1754 to 1790, there were still about 600 voters. Namier and Brooke point out that the constituency was controlled by local squires. No election went to a poll in that period.
===Flint Boroughs 1832–1918=== The '''Flint Boroughs''' was a district of boroughs constituency, which grouped a number of parliamentary boroughs in Flintshire into one single member constituency. The voters from each participating borough cast ballots, which were added together over the whole district to decide the result of the poll. The enfranchised communities in this district, from 1832, were the eight boroughs of Flint, Caergwrle, Caerwys, Holywell, Mold, Overton, Rhuddlan and St Asaph.
The boundaries of the parliamentary boroughs in the district were altered by the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1868, but the general nature of the constituency was unchanged. There were no further boundary changes in the 1885 redistribution of parliamentary seats.
==Members of Parliament== {{Incomplete list|date=August 2008}}
===Members of Parliament 1542–1640=== As there were sometimes significant gaps between Parliaments held in this period, the dates of first assembly and dissolution are given. Where the name of the member has not yet been ascertained or is not recorded in a surviving document, the entry ''unknown'' is entered in the table.
{| class="wikitable" |- !Elected!!Assembled!!Dissolved!!Member!!Note |- | 1542 || 16 January 1542 || 28 March 1544 || ''unknown'' || |- | 1545 || 23 November 1545 || 31 January 1547 || Thomas Salusbury || |- | 1547 || 4 November 1547 || 15 April 1552 || Robert Massey || |- | 1553 || 1 March 1553 || 31 March 1553 || Edward Stanley || |- | 1553 || 5 October 1553 || 5 December 1553 || Edward Stanley|| |- | 1554 || 2 April 1554 || 3 May 1554 || ?Robert Massey || |- | 1554 || 12 November 1554 || 16 January 1555 || Robert Massey || |- | 1555 || 21 October 1555 || 9 December 1555 || Edward Stanley II || |- | 1558 || 20 January 1558 || 17 November 1558 || Peter Mostyn || |- | 1559 || 23 January 1559 || 8 May 1559 || John Hanmer<ref name = HoP3>{{cite web | url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/flint-boroughs| title= History of Parliament|publisher=History of Parliament Trust| access-date = 2011-11-27}}</ref> |- | 1562–3 || 11 January 1563 || 2 January 1567 ||John Conway <ref name = HoP3/>|| |- | 1571 || 2 April 1571 || 29 May 1571 || John Hanmer<ref name = HoP3/>|| |- | 1572 || 8 May 1572 || 19 April 1583 || Humphrey Hanmer <ref name = HoP3/>|| |- | 1584 || 23 November 1584 || 14 September 1585 || Richard Lloyd <ref name = HoP3/>|| |- | 1586 || 13 October 1586 || 23 March 1587 || Michael Doughty <ref name = HoP3/>|| |- | 1588 || 4 February 1589 || 29 March 1589 || John Edwards<ref name = HoP3/>|| |- | 1593 || 18 February 1593 || 10 April 1593 || Thomas Griffith<ref name = HoP3/>|| |- | 1597 || 24 October 1597 || 9 February 1598 || Edward Morgan <ref name = HoP3/>|| |- | 1601 || 27 October 1601 || 19 December 1601 || John Price<ref name = HoP3/>|| |- | 1604 || 19 March 1604 || 9 February 1611 || Roger Brereton|| |- | 1614 || 5 April 1614 || 7 June 1614 || John Eyton || |- | 1620 || 16 January 1621 || 8 February 1622 || William Ravenscroft || |- | 1624 || 12 February 1624 || 27 March 1625 || William Ravenscroft|| |- | 1625 || 17 May 1625 || 12 August 1625 || William Ravenscroft || |- | 1626 || 6 February 1626 || 15 June 1626 || John Salusbury || |- | 1628 || 17 March 1628 || 10 March 1629 || William Ravenscroft || |- | 1640 || 13 April 1640 || 5 May 1640 || Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bt || |}
===Members of Parliament 1640–1660=== This sub-section includes the Long Parliament and the Rump Parliament, together with the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate (before the Convention Parliament of 1660).
{| class="wikitable" |- !Elected!!Assembled!!Dissolved!!Member!!Note |- | 1640 || 3 November 1640 || 5 December 1648 || John Salusbury <br />Disabled 1643 <br /> Thomas Myddelton <br /> 1646–1648|| Long Parliament |- | ... || 6 December 1648 || 20 April 1653 || unrepresented || Rump Parliament |- | ... || 4 July 1653 || 12 December 1653 || unrepresented || Barebones Parliament |- | 1654 || 3 September 1654 || 22 January 1655 || unrepresented || First Protectorate Parliament |- | 1656 || 17 September 1656 || 4 February 1658 || unrepresented || Second Protectorate Parliament |- | 1658–59 || 27 January 1659 || 22 April 1659 || John Hanmer || Third Protectorate Parliament |- | ... || 7 May 1659 || 20 February 1660 || unrepresented || Rump Parliament restored |- | ... || 21 February 1660 || 16 March 1660 || ''unknown'' || Long Parliament restored |- |}
===Members of Parliament 1660–1918=== {| class="wikitable" |- !colspan="2"|First Election!!Member!!Party!!Note |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1660 | Roger Whitley | | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1681 | Thomas Whitley | | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1685 | Sir John Hanmer, Bt | | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 1690 | Thomas Whitley | Whig | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 1695 | Roger Puleston | Whig | Died 28 February 1697 |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 1697 | Thomas Ravenscroft | Whig | Died 3 May 1698 |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 1698 | Thomas Mostyn | Tory | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 1701 | Thomas Hanmer | Tory | Elected to sit for Thetford |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 1702 | John Conway | Tory | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 1702 | Roger Mostyn | Tory | Elected to sit for Cheshire |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 1702 | Thomas Mostyn | Tory | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 1705 | Roger Mostyn | Tory | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 1708 | John Conway | Tory | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 1713 | Roger Mostyn | Tory | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1715 | John Conway | | Died 27 April 1721 |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1721 | Thomas Eyton | | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1727 | Salusbury Lloyd | | A double return. The House of Commons seated Lloyd. |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1734 | Sir George Wynne, Bt | | Unseated on petition |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1742 | Richard Williams | | Declared duly elected, on petition |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1747 | Kyffin Williams | | Died 30 October 1753 |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1753 | John Glynne | | Died 1 June 1777 |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1777 by-election | Watkin Williams | | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1806 | Sir Edward Lloyd, Bt | | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | 1807 | William Shipley | | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 1812 | Edward Lloyd | Whig<ref name="stookssmith">{{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=190–191 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HacQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA190 |via=Google Books |access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref> | Created the Lord Mostyn 1831 |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 1831 by-election | Henry Glynne | Whig<ref name="stookssmith"/> | Resigned |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 1832 by-election | rowspan="2" | Sir Stephen Glynne, Bt | Whig<ref name="stookssmith"/> | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 1835 | Conservative<ref name="stookssmith"/><ref name="mosse">{{cite book|last1=Mosse|first1=Richard Bartholomew|title=The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses, etc|date=1837|page=167|access-date=13 August 2019 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pHcEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA167}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Edward|last1=Churton|author-link1=Edward Churton|title=The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer|date=1838|page=99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVwEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA75 |via=Google Books |access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref> | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 1837 | Charles Whitley Deans Dundas | Whig<ref name="stookssmith"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Morning Post |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18370812/003/0001 |access-date=13 August 2019 |date=12 August 1837 |pages=1–2 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}</ref> | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 1841 | Richard Williams-Bulkeley | Whig<ref name="stookssmith"/><ref name="cragoe">{{cite book |last1=Cragoe |first1=Matthew |title=Culture, Politics, and National Identity in Wales, 1832-1886 |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-820754-9 |page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLRe09JLbHUC&pg=PA31 |via= Google Books |access-date=22 August 2018}}</ref><ref name="bells1835">{{cite news |title=Anglesey (County) |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001319/18350111/020/0005 |access-date=22 August 2018 |work=Bell's New Weekly Messenger |date=11 January 1835 |page=5 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref> | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Peelite}}" | | 1847 |rowspan="2"| John Hanmer | Peelite<ref>{{cite web |last1=MikeMCSG |title=96 Sir John Hanmer |url=http://clarkechroniclerspoliticians.blogspot.com/2013/03/96-sir-john-hanmer.html |website=Clarke Chronicler's Politicians |access-date=22 August 2018 |date=26 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=FLINT |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000420/18470731/137/0008 |access-date=22 August 2018 |work=Cambridge Chronicle and Journal |date=31 July 1847 |page=8 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Flint Boroughs |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001316/18470802/039/0005 |access-date=22 August 2018 |work=Evening Mail |date=2 August 1847 |page=5 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Morning Advertiser |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001427/18520720/027/0005 |access-date=22 August 2018 |date=20 July 1852 |page=5 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref> | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 1859 | Liberal | Created the Lord Hanmer 1872 |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 1872 by-election | Robert Cunliffe | Liberal | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 1874 | P. Ellis Eyton | Liberal | Died 19 June 1878 |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 1878 by-election | John Roberts | Liberal | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 1892 | Herbert Lewis | Liberal | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 1906 | Howell Idris | Liberal | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | Jan 1910 | James Woolley Summers | Liberal | Died 1 January 1913 |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 1913 by-election | rowspan=2|Tom Parry | Liberal | |- |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Coalition Liberal}}" | | ''1916'' | Coalition Liberal | |- |colspan="2" align="center"| 1918 |colspan="3"| ''Constituency abolished'' |}
Supplemental Notes:- * <sup>1</sup> F. W. S. Craig, in his compilations of election results for Great Britain, classifies Whig, Radical and similar candidates as Liberals from 1832. The name Liberal was gradually adopted as a description for the Whigs and politicians allied with them, before the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 general election.
==Election results 1690-1713== {{Expand section|date=June 2008}} Sources 1690–1715: Cruickshanks et al.; 1715–1754: Stooks Smith; 1754–1784: Namier and Brooke; 1784–1832 Stooks Smith. Positive swing is from Whig to Tory. Source 1832–1918: Craig. Positive swing is from Liberal to Conservative.
{{Election box begin | title = General election 17 March 1690: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Whig (British political party) | candidate = Thomas Whitley | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box gain with party link | winner = Whig (British political party) | loser = ? | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title = General election 28 October 1695: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Whig (British political party) | candidate = Roger Puleston | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box hold with party link | winner = Whig (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}} * ''Death of Puleston''
{{Election box begin | title = By-Election 8 April 1697: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Whig (British political party) | candidate = Thomas Ravenscroft | votes = 510 | percentage = 67.1 | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box candidate with party link | party = Tories (British political party) | candidate = John Hanmer | votes = 250 | percentage = 32.9 | change = ''New'' }} {{Election box majority | votes = 260 | percentage = 34.2 | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box turnout | votes = 760 | percentage = | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box hold with party link | winner = Whig (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}} * ''Seat vacant at dissolution, on the death of Ravenscroft''
{{Election box begin | title = General election 13 August 1698: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Tories (British political party) | candidate = Thomas Mostyn | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box gain with party link | winner = Tories (British political party) | loser = Whig (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title = General Election 11 January 1701: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Tories (British political party) | candidate = Thomas Mostyn | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box hold with party link | winner = Tories (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title = General Election 13 December 1701: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Tories (British political party) | candidate = Thomas Hanmer | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box hold with party link | winner = Tories (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}} * ''Hanmer was also returned by and elected to sit for Thetford''
{{Election box begin | title = By-Election 2 February 1702: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Tories (British political party) | candidate = John Conway | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box hold with party link | winner = Tories (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title = General election 1 August 1702: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Tories (British political party) | candidate = Roger Mostyn | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box hold with party link | winner = Tories (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}} * ''Mostyn was also returned by and elected to sit for Cheshire''
{{Election box begin | title = By-Election 2 December 1702: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Tories (British political party) | candidate = Thomas Mostyn | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box hold with party link | winner = Tories (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title = General election 29 May 1705: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Tories (British political party) | candidate = Roger Mostyn | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box hold with party link | winner = Tories (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title = General election 20 May 1708: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Tories (British political party) | candidate = John Conway | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box hold with party link | winner = Tories (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title = General election 17 October 1710: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Tories (British political party) | candidate = John Conway | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box hold with party link | winner = Tories (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title = General election 21 September 1713: Flint}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link | party = Tories (British political party) | candidate = Roger Mostyn | votes = Unopposed | percentage = ''N/A'' | change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box hold with party link | winner = Tories (British political party) | swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}}
==Election results 1800-1832== ===Elections in the 1830s=== {{Election box begin no change | title=General election 1830: Flint Boroughs<ref name="stookssmith"/><ref name="hop1820-1832">{{cite web |last1=Escott |first1=Margaret |title=Flint Boroughs |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/constituencies/flint-boroughs |website=The History of Parliament |access-date=5 May 2020}}</ref> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Whigs (British political party) |candidate = Edward Lloyd }} {{Election box registered electors no change| |reg. electors = {{circa|1,200}} }} {{Election box hold with party link no swing |winner = Whigs (British political party) }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change | title=General election 1831: Flint Boroughs<ref name="stookssmith"/><ref name="hop1820-1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Whigs (British political party) |candidate = Edward Lloyd }} {{Election box registered electors no change| |reg. electors = {{circa|1,200}} }} {{Election box hold with party link no swing |winner = Whigs (British political party) }} {{Election box end}}
Lloyd was elevated to the peerage, becoming 1st Baron Mostyn and causing a by-election.
{{Election box begin no change | title=By-election, 22 September 1831: Flint Boroughs<ref name="stookssmith"/><ref name="hop1820-1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Whigs (British political party) |candidate = Henry Glynne }} {{Election box registered electors no change| |reg. electors = {{circa|1,200}} }} {{Election box hold with party link no swing |winner = Whigs (British political party) }} {{Election box end}}
Glynne resigned, causing a by-election.
{{Election box begin no change | title=By-election, 25 February 1832: Flint Boroughs<ref name="stookssmith"/><ref name="hop1820-1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Whigs (British political party) |candidate = Stephen Glynne }} {{Election box registered electors no change| |reg. electors = {{circa|1,185}} }} {{Election box hold with party link no swing |winner = Whigs (British political party) }} {{Election box end}}
==Election results 1832-1868== ===Elections in the 1830s===
{{Election box begin no change | title=General election 1832: Flint Boroughs<ref name="stookssmith"/><ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Whigs (British political party) |candidate = Stephen Glynne }} {{Election box registered electors no change| |reg. electors = 1,359 }} {{Election box hold with party link no swing |winner = Whigs (British political party) }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change | title=General election 1835: Flint Boroughs<ref name="stookssmith"/><ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Stephen Glynne }} {{Election box registered electors no change| |reg. electors = 1,067 }} {{Election box gain with party link no swing |winner = Conservative Party (UK) |loser = Whigs (British political party) }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change | title=General election 1837: Flint Boroughs<ref name="stookssmith"/><ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link no change| |party = Whigs (British political party) |candidate = Charles Whitley Deans Dundas |votes = 591 |percentage = 60.1 }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Robert John Mostyn |votes = 393 |percentage = 39.9 }} {{Election box majority no change| |votes = 198 |percentage = 20.2 }} {{Election box turnout no change| |votes = 984 |percentage = 75.9 }} {{Election box registered electors no change| |reg. electors = 1,297 }} {{Election box gain with party link no swing |winner = Whigs (British political party) |loser = Conservative Party (UK) }} {{Election box end}}
===Elections in the 1840s=== {{Election box begin | title=General election 1841: Flint Boroughs<ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Whigs (British political party) |candidate = Richard Williams-Bulkeley }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 1,006 }} {{Election box hold with party link no swing |winner = Whigs (British political party) }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1847: Flint Boroughs<ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Peelite |candidate = John Hanmer }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 840 }} {{Election box gain with party link no swing |winner = Peelite |loser = Whigs (British political party) }} {{Election box end}}
===Elections in the 1850s=== {{Election box begin | title=General election 1852: Flint Boroughs<ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link| |party = Peelite |candidate = John Hanmer |votes = 386 |percentage = 59.1 |change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Richard Pelham Warren<ref>{{cite news |title=The Flintshire Boroughs |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001316/18520712/037/0005 |access-date=22 August 2018 |work=Evening Mail |date=12 July 1852 |page=5 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref> |votes = 267 |percentage = 40.9 |change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 119 |percentage = 18.2 |change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = 653 |percentage = 79.7 |change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 819 }} {{Election box hold with party link |winner = Peelite |swing = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1857: Flint Boroughs<ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Peelite |candidate = John Hanmer }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 783 }} {{Election box hold with party link no swing| |winner = Peelite }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1859: Flint Boroughs<ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = John Hanmer }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 741 }} {{Election box hold with party link no swing| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) }} {{Election box end}}
=== Elections in the 1860s ===
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1865: Flint Boroughs<ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = John Hanmer }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 689 }} {{Election box hold with party link no swing| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) }} {{Election box end}}
==Election results 1868-1880== === Elections in the 1860s === {{Election box begin | title=General election 1868: Flint Boroughs<ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = John Hanmer }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 3,279 }} {{Election box hold with party link no swing| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) }} {{Election box end}}
=== Elections in the 1870s ===
Hanmer was raised to the peerage, becoming Lord Hanmer.
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 16 Oct 1872: Flint Boroughs<ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = Robert Cunliffe }} {{Election box hold with party link no swing| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1874: Flint Boroughs<ref name="craig1832"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = P. Ellis Eyton |votes = 1,076 |percentage = 36.8 |change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Conwy Greville Hercules Rowley-Conwy<ref>{{cite news|title=Flint Boroughs|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000496/18740214/002/0003|access-date=30 December 2017|work=Wrexham Advertiser|date=14 February 1874|pages=1–4, 8|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref> |votes = 1,072 |percentage = 36.7 |change = ''New'' }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = Robert Cunliffe |votes = 772 |percentage = 26.4 |change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 4 |percentage = 0.1 |change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = 2,920 |percentage = 80.5 |change = ''N/A'' }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 3,628 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = }} {{Election box end}}
Eyton's death caused a by-election.
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 5 Jul 1878: Flint Boroughs<ref>{{cite news |title=Flint Boroughs Election|work=South Wales Daily News |date=6 July 1878 |access-date=13 October 2016|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000919/18780706/034/0003| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = John Roberts |votes = 1,636 |percentage = 52.0 |change = −11.2 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Philip Pennant Pennant |votes = 1,511 |percentage = 48.0 |change = +11.3 }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 125 |percentage = 4.0 |change = +3.9 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = 3,147 |percentage = 84.9 |change = +4.4 }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 3,707 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = −11.2 }} {{Election box end}}
=== Elections in the 1880s === {{Election box begin | title=General election 1880: Flint Boroughs<ref name="craig1832">{{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|quote=e-book format}}</ref> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = John Roberts |votes = 2,039 |percentage = 58.1 |change = −5.1 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Philip Pennant Pennant |votes = 1,468 |percentage = 41.9 |change = +5.2 }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 571 |percentage = 16.2 |change = +16.1 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = 3,507 |percentage = 92.4 |change = +11.9 }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 3,794 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = −5.2 }} {{Election box end}}
==Election results 1885-1918== ===Elections in the 1880s=== {{Election box begin|title=General election 1885: Flint Boroughs <ref name="ReferenceCraig85-18">British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig</ref><ref name="ReferenceLYB07">The Liberal Year Book, 1907</ref> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link| |party=Liberal Party (UK) |candidate=John Roberts |votes=1,835 |percentage=51.7 |change=−6.4 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Conservative Party (UK) |candidate=Philip Pennant Pennant |votes=1,713 |percentage=48.3 |change=+6.4 }} {{Election box majority| |votes=122 |percentage=3.4 |change=−12.8 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes=3,548 |percentage=94.0 |change=+1.6 }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 3,773 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner=Liberal Party (UK) |swing= }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin|title=General election 1886: Flint Boroughs <ref name="ReferenceCraig85-18"/><ref name="ReferenceLYB07"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link| |party=Liberal Party (UK) |candidate=John Roberts |votes=1,827 |percentage=56.6 |change=+4.9 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Liberal Unionist Party |candidate= Sir Henry Mather-Jackson, 3rd Baronet|Henry Mather-Jackson |votes=1,403 |percentage=43.4 |change=-4.9 }} {{Election box majority| |votes=424 |percentage=13.2 |change=+9.8 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes=3,230 |percentage=85.6 |change=-8.4 }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 3,773 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner=Liberal Party (UK) |swing=+4.9 }} {{Election box end}}
===Elections in the 1890s=== thumb|120px|Lewis {{Election box begin|title=General election 1892: Flint Boroughs <ref name="ReferenceCraig85-18"/><ref name="ReferenceLYB07"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link| |party=Liberal Party (UK) |candidate=Herbert Lewis |votes=1,883 |percentage=55.3 |change=-1.3 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Conservative Party (UK) |candidate=Philip Pennant Pennant |votes=1,524 |percentage=44.7 |change=+1.3 }} {{Election box majority| |votes=359 |percentage=10.6 |change=-2.6 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes=3,407 |percentage=91.8 |change=+6.2 }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 3,710 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner=Liberal Party (UK) |swing=-1.3 }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin|title=General election 1895: Flint Boroughs <ref name="ReferenceCraig85-18"/><ref name="ReferenceLYB07"/><ref name="ReferenceA">Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901</ref> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link| |party=Liberal Party (UK) |candidate=Herbert Lewis |votes=1,828 |percentage=52.4 |change=-2.9 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Conservative Party (UK) |candidate=Philip Pennant Pennant |votes=1,663 |percentage=47.6 |change=+2.9 }} {{Election box majority| |votes=165 |percentage=4.8 |change=-5.8 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes=3,491 |percentage=90.6 |change=-1.2 }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 3,853 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner=Liberal Party (UK) |swing=-2.9 }} {{Election box end}}
===Elections in the 1900s=== {{Election box begin|title=General election 1900: Flint Boroughs <ref name="ReferenceCraig85-18"/><ref name="ReferenceLYB07"/><ref name="ReferenceA">Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901</ref> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link| |party=Liberal Party (UK) |candidate=Herbert Lewis |votes=1,760 |percentage=55.5 |change=+3.1 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Conservative Party (UK) |candidate=John Lloyd-Price |votes=1,413 |percentage=44.5 |change= −3.1 }} {{Election box majority| |votes=347 |percentage=11.0 |change=+6.2 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes=3,173 |percentage=88.6 |change= −2.0 }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 3,581 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner=Liberal Party (UK) |swing=+3.1 }} {{Election box end}} thumb|120px|Idris {{Election box begin|title=General election 1906: Flint Boroughs <ref name="ReferenceCraig85-18"/><ref name="ReferenceLYB07"/> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link |party=Liberal Party (UK) |candidate=Howell Idris |votes=1,899 |percentage=55.5 |change= 0.0 }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party=Conservative Party (UK) |candidate=John Eldon Bankes |votes=1,523 |percentage=44.5 |change= 0.0 }} {{Election box majority |votes=376 |percentage=11.0 |change= 0.0 }} {{Election box turnout |votes=3,422 |percentage=93.5 |change= +4.9 }} {{Election box registered electors| |reg. electors = 3,659 }} {{Election box hold with party link |winner=Liberal Party (UK) |swing= 0.0 }} {{Election box end}}
===Elections in the 1910s=== {{Election box begin| |title=General election January 1910: Flint Boroughs <ref name="ReferenceCraig85-18"/><ref name="ReferenceB">Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916</ref> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link| |party=Liberal Party (UK) |candidate=James Woolley Summers |votes=2,150 |percentage=55.5 |change= 0.0 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Conservative Party (UK) |candidate=H.A. Tilby |votes=1,723 |percentage=44.5 |change= 0.0 }} {{Election box majority| |votes=427 |percentage=11.0 |change= 0.0 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes= 3,873 |percentage=95.4 |change=+1.9 }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner=Liberal Party (UK) |swing= 0.0 }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin| |title=General election December 1910: Flint Boroughs <ref name="ReferenceCraig85-18"/><ref name="ReferenceB">Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916</ref> }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link |party=Liberal Party (UK) |candidate=James Woolley Summers |votes=2,098 |percentage=56.9 |change=+1.4 }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party=Conservative Party (UK) |candidate= Henry Howard |votes=1,589 |percentage=43.1 |change=-1.4 }} {{Election box majority |votes=509 |percentage=13.8 |change=+2.8 }} {{Election box turnout |votes= 3,687 |percentage=90.8 |change=-4.6 }} {{Election box hold with party link |winner=Liberal Party (UK) |swing=+1.4 }} {{Election box end}} thumb|120px|Parry {{Election box begin|title=1913 Flint Boroughs by-election }} {{Election box winning candidate with party link |party=Liberal Party (UK) |candidate=Tom Parry |votes=2,152 |percentage=52.6 |change=-4.3 }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party=Unionist Party (UK) |candidate=J. Hamlet Roberts |votes=1,941 |percentage=47.4 |change=+4.3 }} {{Election box majority |votes=211 |percentage=5.2 |change=-8.6 }} {{Election box turnout |votes= 4,093 |percentage=94.1 |change=+3.3 }} {{Election box hold with party link |winner=Liberal Party (UK) |swing=-4.3 }} {{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; *'''Liberal''': Tom Parry *'''Unionist''': J. Hamlet Roberts <ref>Cheshire Observer 1 Aug 1914</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} * ''Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972) * ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1977) * ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974) * ''The House of Commons 1509–1558'', by S.T. Bindoff (Secker & Warburg 1982) * ''The House of Commons 1558–1603'', by P.W. Hasler (HMSO 1981) * ''The House of Commons 1690–1715'', by Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and D.W. Hayton (Cambridge University Press 2002) * ''The House of Commons 1715–1754'', by Romney Sedgwick (HMSO 1970) * ''The House of Commons 1754–1790'', by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964) * ''The Parliaments of England'' by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973) *{{Rayment-hc|f|date=March 2012}}
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