Blackpool North (UK Parliament constituency)
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Blackpool North | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Lancashire |
1945–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Blackpool North and Fleetwood |
Created from | Blackpool |
Blackpool North was a borough constituency in Lancashire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was created for the 1945 general election, when the former constituency of Blackpool was split in two, and abolished for the 1997 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Blackpool North & Fleetwood constituency.
Contents
Boundaries
1945-1950: The County Borough of Blackpool wards of Alexandra, Bank Hey, Bispham, Brunswick, Claremont, Foxhall, Layton, Talbot, Tyldesley, and Warbreck.
1950-1983: The County Borough of Blackpool wards of Bank Hey, Bispham, Brunswick, Claremont, Foxhall, Layton, Talbot, and Warbreck.
1983-1997: The Borough of Blackpool wards of Anchorsholme, Bispham, Brunswick, Claremont, Greenlands, Ingthorpe, Layton, Norbreck, Park, Talbot, and Warbreck.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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1945 | Sir Toby Low | Conservative | |
1962 by-election | Norman Miscampbell | Conservative | |
1992 | Harold Elletson | Conservative | |
1997 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Toby Austin Richard William Low | 25,564 | 49.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Cadwalader Edward Thomas | 13,170 | 25.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Kenneth Innes Hamilton | 11,452 | 22.1 | N/A | |
Independent Conservative | Arthur Talbot | 1,635 | 3.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,394 | 23.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 51,821 | 68.0 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Toby Austin Richard William Low | 31,655 | 67.4 | +18.1 | |
Labour | Mrs. E.B. Muir | 15,308 | 32.6 | +7.2 | |
Majority | 16,347 | 34.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 46,963 | 79.4 | +11.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Toby Austin Richard William Low | 29,956 | 70.2 | +2.8 | |
Labour | Samuel Victor Hyde-Price | 12,727 | 29.8 | −2.8 | |
Majority | 17,229 | 40.4 | |||
Turnout | 42,683 | 73.3 | −6.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Toby Austin Richard William Low | 26,899 | 71.2 | +1.0 | |
Labour | Ronald Bushby | 10,869 | 28.8 | −1.0 | |
Majority | 16,030 | 42.4 | |||
Turnout | 37,768 | 66.9 | −6.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sir Toby Austin Richard William Low | 25,297 | 57.9 | −13.3 | |
Labour | William H Dugdale | 9,440 | 21.6 | −7.2 | |
Liberal | Harry Hague | 8,990 | 20.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,857 | 36.3 | |||
Turnout | 43,727 | 76.6 | +9.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −3.1 |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Norman Alexander Miscampbell | 12,711 | 38.3 | −19.6 | |
Liberal | Harry Hague | 11,738 | 35.3 | +14.7 | |
Labour | Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill | 8,776 | 26.4 | +4.8 | |
Majority | 973 | 2.9 | |||
Turnout | 33,225 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Norman Alexander Miscampbell | 19,633 | 47.2 | −10.7 | |
Liberal | Harry Hague | 11,462 | 27.5 | +6.9 | |
Labour | Thomas McKellar | 10,543 | 25.3 | +3.7 | |
Majority | 8,171 | 19.6 | |||
Turnout | 41,638 | 74.7 | −1.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Norman Alexander Miscampbell | 19,173 | 47.1 | −0.1 | |
Labour | George E Bingham | 13,863 | 34.0 | +8.7 | |
Liberal | James Henry Hessey | 7,699 | 18.9 | −8.6 | |
Majority | 5,310 | 13.0 | |||
Turnout | 40,735 | 72.9 | −1.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Norman Alexander Miscampbell | 22,298 | 55.3 | +8.2 | |
Labour | Wilfred Callon | 13,062 | 32.4 | −1.6 | |
Liberal | Bernard Miles Christon | 4,946 | 12.3 | −6.6 | |
Majority | 9,236 | 22.9 | |||
Turnout | 40,306 | 68.4 | −4.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Norman Alexander Miscampbell | 23,942 | 55.1 | −0.2 | |
Labour | Ivan J. Taylor | 15,788 | 36.3 | +3.9 | |
Independent Liberal | Peter Bisbrown Nickson | 3,720 | 8.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,154 | 18.8 | |||
Turnout | 43,450 | 73.3 | +4.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Norman Alexander Miscampbell | 19,662 | 47.3 | −7.8 | |
Labour | Ivan J. Taylor | 14,195 | 34.1 | −2.3 | |
Liberal | G. Mulholland | 7,750 | 18.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,467 | 13.1 | |||
Turnout | 41,607 | 69.6 | −3.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Norman Alexander Miscampbell | 23,209 | 53.7 | +6.4 | |
Labour | Andy W. Verdeille | 12,980 | 30.0 | −4.1 | |
Liberal | Christopher James Heyworth | 6,127 | 14.2 | −4.4 | |
National Front | Alvin Stanley Hanson | 943 | 2.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,229 | 23.6 | |||
Turnout | 43,259 | 72.6 | +3.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.3 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Norman Alexander Miscampbell | 20,592 | 51.1 | −2.6 | |
Liberal | Christopher James Heyworth | 10,440 | 25.9 | +11.7 | |
Labour | Michael John Hindley | 8,730 | 21.7 | −8.3 | |
National Front | Alvin Stanley Hanson | 514 | 1.3 | −0.9 | |
Majority | 10,152 | 25.2 | |||
Turnout | 40,276 | 70.0 | −2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Norman Alexander Miscampbell | 20,680 | 48.0 | −3.1 | |
Labour | Eric Timothy Kirton | 13,359 | 31.0 | +9.3 | |
Liberal | Christopher James Heyworth | 9,032 | 21.0 | −4.9 | |
Majority | 7,321 | 17.0 | |||
Turnout | 43,071 | 73.1 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Harold Daniel Hope Elletson | 21,501 | 47.7 | −0.3 | |
Labour | Eric Timothy Kirton | 18,461 | 41.0 | +10.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Andre P. Lahiff | 4,786 | 10.6 | −10.3 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Sir Guy Francis | 178 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Hugh B. Walker | 125 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,040 | 6.7 | −10.2 | ||
Turnout | 45,051 | 77.5 | +4.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.1 |
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Sources
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950–73
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- EngvarB from September 2013
- Use dmy dates from September 2013
- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1945
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1997
- Politics of Blackpool