Preston North (UK Parliament constituency)
Preston North | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Lancashire |
Major settlements | Preston |
1950–1983 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Preston, Fylde and Ribble Valley |
Created from | Preston |
Preston North was a parliamentary constituency in Lancashire, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 for the 1950 general election by division of the former two-seat Preston constituency, and abolished for the 1983 general election. Some of the constituency's former territory was then incorporated within a new single-seat Preston constituency, and parts of Preston North became elements within Fylde and Ribble Valley.
The modern Preston is a safe seat for Labour, but historically Preston North was one of the most marginal constituencies in the country.
Contents
Boundaries
1950-1974: The County Borough of Preston wards of Deepdale, Fishwick, Moorbrook, Park, and Ribbleton, and the Urban District of Fulwood.
1974-1983: The County Borough of Preston wards of Deepdale, Fishwick, Moorbrook, Park, St Matthew's, and Ribbleton, and the Urban District of Fulwood.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1950 | Julian Amery | Conservative | |
1966 | Ronald Atkins | Labour | |
1970 | Mary Holt | Conservative | |
Feb 1974 | Ronald Atkins | Labour | |
1979 | Robert Atkins | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Preston |
- Ronald Atkins (Labour) and Robert Atkins (Con) are two different people.
Election results
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Harold Julian Amery | 21,880 | 55.1 | n/a | |
Labour | Samuel Segal | 20,950 | 46.3 | n/a | |
Liberal | Charles Joseph Hemelryk | 2,012 | 4.4 | n/a | |
Communist | P Devine | 366 | 0.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 938 | 2.2 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 86.8 | n/a | |||
Conservative win |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Harold Julian Amery | 23,598 | 55.1 | ||
Labour | Thomas Hourigan | 22,490 | 48.8 | ||
Majority | 1,108 | 2.4 | |||
Turnout | 87.5 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Harold Julian Amery | 22,310 | 53.5 | ||
Labour | Edgar Hewitt | 19,407 | 46.5 | ||
Majority | 2,903 | 7 | |||
Turnout | 81.4 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Harold Julian Amery | 23,990 | 55.1 | ||
Labour | Arthur Davidson | 19,529 | 44.9 | ||
Majority | 4,461 | 10.2 | |||
Turnout | 83.4 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Harold Julian Amery | 20,566 | 50.0 | ||
Labour | Russell Whiston Kerr | 20,552 | 50.0 | ||
Majority | 14 | 0.0 | |||
Turnout | 78.7 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ronald Henry Atkins | 21,539 | 53.0 | ||
Conservative | Harold Julian Amery | 19,121 | 47.0 | ||
Majority | 2,418 | 5.6 | |||
Turnout | 50,140 | 81.1 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Mary Holt | 20,102 | 50.6 | ||
Labour | Ronald Henry Atkins | 17,140 | 43.2 | ||
Liberal | Derrick Trevor Jones | 2,458 | 6.2 | ||
Majority | 2,962 | 7.4 | |||
Turnout | 51,655 | 76.9 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ronald Henry Atkins | 16,797 | 41.5 | ||
Conservative | Mary Holt | 16,542 | 40.9 | ||
Liberal | Gordon Payne | 7,099 | 17.6 | ||
Majority | 255 | 0.63 | |||
Turnout | 50,885 | 79.4 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ronald Henry Atkins | 18,044 | 45.8 | ||
Conservative | Mary Holt | 16,260 | 41.3 | ||
Liberal | Gordon Payne | 4,948 | 12.6 | ||
More Prosperous Britain | Harold Smith | 138 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 1,784 | 4.53 | |||
Turnout | 51,369 | 76.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert James Atkins | 18,632 | 46.3 | ||
Labour | Ronald Henry Atkins | 18,603 | 46.2 | ||
Liberal | Michael P. Braham | 2,715 | 6.7 | ||
National Front | J.F. Hetherington | 329 | 0.8 | ||
Majority | 29 | 0.07 | |||
Turnout | 51,756 | 77.8 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
See also
- Wyre and Preston North - a newly created seat to be fought at the 2009/10 UK General Election
- Preston (UK Parliament constituency)
- Ribble Valley
References
- 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 Preston