Bury and Radcliffe (UK Parliament constituency)
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Bury and Radcliffe | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Lancashire, until 1974; Greater Manchester, from 1974 |
Major settlements | Bury and Radcliffe |
1950–1983 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Bury North Bury South |
Created from | Bury Heywood and Radcliffe |
Bury and Radcliffe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Bury and Radcliffe in North West England. 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 it was split into two new constituencies – Bury North and Bury South.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1950 | Sir Walter Fletcher | Conservative | |
1955 | John Bidgood | Conservative | |
1964 | David Ensor | Labour | |
1970 | Michael Fidler | Conservative | |
October 1974 | Frank White | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Bury North and Bury South |
Election results
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Frank White | 29,194 | 45.3 | +3.3 | |
Conservative | P.J. Le Bosquet | 29,156 | 43.3 | +2.0 | |
Liberal | S. Vickers | 5,711 | 8.9 | −7.7 | |
National Front | J.M. Bridge | 414 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 38 | 0.1 | |||
Turnout | 64,475 | 82.6 | +1.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Frank White | 26,430 | 42.0 | −7.7 | |
Conservative | Michael Fidler | 25,998 | 41.3 | −9.0 | |
Liberal | A. Benson | 10,463 | 16.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 442 | 0.7 | |||
Turnout | 62,891 | 80.8 | +0.6 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Michael Fidler | 31,113 | 50.3 | −2.5 | |
Labour | Frank White | 30,768 | 49.7 | +2.5 | |
Majority | 345 | 0.6 | |||
Turnout | 61,881 | 80.2 | +4.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Michael Fidler | 29,796 | 52.8 | +11.3 | |
Labour | Dennis V. Hunt | 26,592 | 47.2 | −2.6 | |
Majority | 3,204 | 5.7 | |||
Turnout | 56,388 | 75.6 | −5.7 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +7.0 |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Ensor | 26,769 | 49.8 | +5.7 | |
Conservative | John Bidgood | 22,298 | 41.5 | −0.4 | |
Liberal | Charles L. Scholes | 4,694 | 8.7 | −5.3 | |
Majority | 4,471 | 8.3 | |||
Turnout | 53,761 | 81.3 | −1.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Ensor | 23,865 | 44.1 | −2.2 | |
Conservative | John Bidgood | 22,639 | 41.9 | −11.8 | |
Liberal | Charles L. Scholes | 7,589 | 14.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,226 | 2.3 | |||
Turnout | 54,093 | 82.3 | +0.1 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +4.8 |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Bidgood | 28,623 | 53.7 | +0.1 | |
Labour | R.P. Walsh | 24,715 | 46.3 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 3,908 | 7.3 | |||
Turnout | 53,338 | 82.2 | +2.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Bidgood | 28,080 | 53.6 | +2.0 | |
Labour | Thomas Brennan | 24,331 | 46.4 | −2.0 | |
Majority | 3,749 | 7.2 | |||
Turnout | 52,411 | 80.2 | −6.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Walter Fletcher | 29,949 | 51.6 | +5.8 | |
Labour | Lewis Wright | 28,058 | 48.4 | +4.0 | |
Majority | 1,891 | 3.3 | +1.9 | ||
Turnout | 58,007 | 86.5 | −0.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Walter Fletcher | 26,485 | 45.8 | N/A | |
Labour | John Owen | 25,705 | 44.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Colin Hindley | 5,662 | 9.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 780 | 1.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 57,852 | 87.0 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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 Bury Borough