Heywood and Royton (UK Parliament constituency)
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Heywood and Royton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Heywood and Royton districts in the north-west of Greater Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when its territory was largely divided between the new constituencies of Heywood & Middleton and Oldham Central & Royton.
Contents
Boundaries
The Municipal Borough of Heywood, and the Urban Districts of Royton, Crompton, Littleborough, Milnrow, Wardle, and Whitworth.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1950 | Sir Harold Sutcliffe | Conservative | |
1955 | Tony Leavey | Conservative | |
1964 | Joel Barnett | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Heywood and Middleton & Oldham Central and Royton |
Elections
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Harold Sutcliffe | 23,518 | 44.04 | ||
Labour | Charles J Hurley | 21,482 | 40.23 | ||
Liberal | William Hibbert Watkinson | 8,404 | 15.74 | ||
Majority | 2,036 | 3.81 | |||
Turnout | 87.98 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Harold Sutcliffe | 28,086 | 53.84 | ||
Labour | Charles J Hurley | 24,083 | 46.16 | ||
Majority | 4,003 | 7.67 | |||
Turnout | 85.08 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Anthony Leavey | 25,824 | 53.31 | ||
Labour | Alan Lever Tillotson | 22,614 | 46.69 | ||
Majority | 3,210 | 6.63 | |||
Turnout | 81.82 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Anthony Leavey | 19,742 | 40.25 | ||
Labour | Harry Nevin | 17,588 | 35.86 | ||
Liberal | Geoffrey Eugene MacPherson | 11,713 | 23.88 | ||
Majority | 2,154 | 4.39 | |||
Turnout | 84.75 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joel Barnett | 20,174 | 40.80 | ||
Conservative | John Anthony Leavey | 19,358 | 39.15 | ||
Liberal | Wilfred Eric Critchley | 9,914 | 20.05 | ||
Majority | 816 | 1.65 | |||
Turnout | 82.78 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joel Barnett | 24,701 | 48.93 | ||
Conservative | David Charles Waddington | 19,048 | 37.73 | ||
Liberal | James Clarney | 6,732 | 13.34 | ||
Majority | 5,653 | 11.20 | |||
Turnout | 79.58 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joel Barnett | 25,081 | 45.70 | ||
Conservative | Ian MacGregor | 24,178 | 44.06 | ||
Liberal | Francis Joseph Beetham | 5,620 | 10.24 | ||
Majority | 903 | 1.65 | |||
Turnout | 76.13 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joel Barnett | 28,216 | 44.32 | ||
Conservative | Ian MacGregor | 21,054 | 33.07 | ||
Liberal | Vivian Bingham | 14,392 | 22.61 | ||
Majority | 7,162 | 11.25 | |||
Turnout | 82.62 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joel Barnett | 27,206 | 45.74 | ||
Conservative | Peter Morgan | 19,307 | 32.46 | ||
Liberal | Vivian Bingham | 12,969 | 21.80 | ||
Majority | 7,899 | 13.28 | |||
Turnout | 76.55 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joel Barnett | 28,489 | 45.24 | ||
Conservative | Peter Morgan | 26,202 | 41.61 | ||
Liberal | M Hewitt | 7,644 | 12.14 | ||
National Front | R Marsh | 641 | 1.02 | ||
Majority | 2,287 | 3.63 | |||
Turnout | 76.61 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
Categories:
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1950
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983
- Politics of Oldham Borough
- Politics of Rochdale Borough
- Heywood, Greater Manchester