Scarborough and Whitby

Scarborough and Whitby
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Scarborough and Whitby in North Yorkshire.
Location of North Yorkshire within England.
County	North Yorkshire
Electorate	76,078 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Scarborough and Whitby
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Scarborough
1918–1974 (1974)
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	County constituency
Replaced by	Scarborough
Created from	Scarborough and Whitby
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Scarborough and Whitby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Robert Goodwill, a Conservative.

The constituency name has had two separate periods of existence.

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. This division took the entirety of the abolished Parliamentary borough of Scarborough together with the majority of the previous Whitby division and a very small part of Cleveland division. It had a population, in the middle of 1914, of 72,979. The Boundary Commission had initially recommended that the division simply be called 'Scarborough' but an amendment moved by the Government during enactment of their recommendations enacted it from the outset as Scarborough and Whitby. Throughout its 56-year first creation which allowed a full franchise for all resident men it was represented by a Conservative, including during the Attlee Ministry and First Wilson Ministry.

The Initial Report of the Boundary Commission in 1947 made minor changes to the constituency, in line with local government changes which had abolished Guisborough Rural District in 1932 and absorbed it into Whitby Rural District. The new constituency again included the whole of Whitby Rural District, and so gained Hinderwell which was previously within Cleveland constituency. It had an electorate of 67,884 on 15 October 1946. No change was made in the First Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission in 1954.