Haltemprice civil parishes. The area gives its name to the Parliamentary seat of Haltemprice and Howden which is held by the former Shadow Home Secretary and former Brexit Secretary David Davis and, as the fictional constituency of Haltemprice, was held by the fictional Tory MP Alan B'Stard in the ITV sitcom "The New Statesman". Haltemprice Haltemprice is an area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, directly to the west of Hull. Originally an extra-parochial area, it became a civil parish in 1858, in 1935 it was expanded by the combination of the urban districts of Cottingham, Anlaby, and Sculcoates to
UK Parliamentary by-elections the 1967 Hamilton by-election. In some cases, an MP or MPs may deliberately trigger a by-election to make a political point, as when all the sitting Unionist MPs in Northern Ireland resigned together in 1986 or as occurred in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008. For a list of by-election results since 2010, see: List of United Kingdom by-elections For a list of exceptional results and records in the history of by-elections in the United Kingdom, see: United Kingdom by-election records UK Parliamentary by-elections A parliamentary by-election occurs in the United Kingdom following a vacancy arising in the House of