Cardiff North West (UK Parliament constituency)
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Cardiff North West | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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February 1974–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Cardiff Central, Cardiff North and Cardiff West |
Created from | Cardiff Central, Cardiff North and Cardiff West |
Cardiff North West was a parliamentary constituency in Cardiff, Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
Contents
Boundaries
The County Borough of Cardiff wards of Gabalfa, Llanishen, Rhiwbina, and Whitchurch.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
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Feb 1974 | Michael Roberts | Conservative | Died in office February 1983 | |
1983 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Michael Roberts | 16,654 | 46.74 | ||
Labour | CA Blewett | 10,641 | 29.86 | ||
Liberal | H O'Brien | 7,109 | 19.95 | ||
Plaid Cymru | C Palfrey | 1,227 | 3.44 | ||
Majority | 6,013 | 16.95 | |||
Turnout | 74.26 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Michael Roberts | 15,652 | 45.27 | ||
Labour | CA Blewett | 11,319 | 32.74 | ||
Liberal | H O'Brien | 6,322 | 18.29 | ||
Plaid Cymru | C Palfrey | 1,278 | 3.70 | ||
Majority | 4,333 | 12.53 | |||
Turnout | 78.95 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Michael Roberts | 17,925 | 50.98 | ||
Labour | PH Owen | 11,633 | 33.17 | ||
Liberal | JT Roberts | 4,832 | 13.74 | ||
Plaid Cymru | C Palfrey | 743 | 2.11 | ||
Majority | 6,262 | 17.81 | |||
Turnout | 80.58 | ||||
Conservative 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
- Politics of Cardiff
- History of Glamorgan
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in South Wales
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1974
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983