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Brigg and Scunthorpe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Brigg and Scunthorpe in Humberside. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election, mostly from the former seat of Brigg, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partially replaced by the new constituencies of Brigg & Cleethorpes and Glanford & Scunthorpe.
The Borough of Scunthorpe, the Urban Districts of Barton-upon-Humber and Brigg, and the Rural District of Glanford Brigg.
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1974 | John Ellis | Labour | |
| 1979 | Michael Brown | Conservative | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Ellis | 28,803 | 41.14 | ||
| Conservative | JPS Riddell | 25,729 | 36.75 | ||
| Liberal | J Harris | 15,484 | 22.11 | ||
| Majority | 3,074 | 4.39 | |||
| Turnout | 70,016 | 78.35 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Ellis | 28,929 | 45.51 | ||
| Conservative | JPS Riddell | 22,187 | 34.90 | ||
| Liberal | J Harris | 12,452 | 19.59 | ||
| Majority | 6,742 | 10.61 | |||
| Turnout | 63,568 | 70.51 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Brown | 31,130 | 43.42 | ||
| Labour | John Ellis | 30,644 | 42.74 | ||
| Liberal | M Beard | 7,764 | 10.83 | ||
| Democratic Labour | Cyril Nottingham | 2,042 | 2.85 | New | |
| Independent | M Nottingham | 123 | 0.17 | New | |
| Majority | 486 | 0.68 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 71,703 | 75.62 | |||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
