North Cumberland (also "Cumberland Northern")MPs for Cumberland Northern
Hansard Millbank was a

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which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the

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of the

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, elected by the

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system of

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. The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

The Urban Districts of Holme Cultram and Wigton, the Rural Districts of Brampton, Carlisle, and Longtown, and part of the Rural District of Wigton. (Carlisle, Brampton and Longtown rural districts merged in 1930 into the Border Rural District)

Members of Parliament

Election results

Election in the 1910s

Election in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

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; *Liberal:

Wilfrid Roberts Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts (28 August 1900 – 26 May 1991) was a radical British Liberal Party politician who later joined the Labour Party. Personal life Roberts was born in York to Charles Henry Roberts, who became Liberal MP for Lincoln, ...

*Conservative:

Election in the 1940s

References

* {{reflist Parliamentary constituencies in Cumbria (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1950