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The constituency name has had two separate periods of existence. 1918–1974: . A Scarborough and Whitby division of the North Riding of Yorkshire was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 after the Boundary Commission of 1917 and first elected a Member of Parliament in the 1918 general election.
Scarborough was the name of a constituency in Yorkshire, electing Members of Parliament to the House of Commons, at two periods. From 1295 until 1918 it was a parliamentary borough consisting only of the town of Scarborough , electing two MPs until 1885 and one from 1885 until 1918.
Sir Robert Goodwill (born 31 December 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician and farmer who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough and Whitby from 2005 to 2024. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine North Yorkshire with West Yorkshire as a sub-region of the Yorkshire and the Humber Region, resulting in the creation of two new cross-county boundary constituencies: Selby which comprises the ...
Scarborough and Whitby and Thirsk and Malton Whitby was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire . It 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 system.
General election 1931: Scarborough & Whitby [1] Electorate 55,546 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative: Paul Latham: 32,025 82.97 Labour: P S Eastman 6,575 17.03 Majority 25,450 65.93 Turnout: 38,600 69.49 Conservative hold: Swing
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It is in North Yorkshire non-metropolitan county, within which it is in the Esk Valley electoral district, represented as of May 2008 by one Conservative councillor. [16] Lealholm is in the Scarborough and Whitby parliamentary constituency, currently represented by Conservative Robert Goodwill, who won the seat from Labour in 2005. [16]