Huddersfield West (UK Parliament constituency)
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Huddersfield West | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1950–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Huddersfield and Littleborough and Saddleworth |
Huddersfield West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. 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.
Contents
Boundaries
The County Borough of Huddersfield wards of Birkby, Crosland Moor, Lindley, Lockwood, Longwood, Marsh, Milnsbridge, and Paddock.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1950 | Donald Wade | Liberal | |
1964 | Ken Lomas | Labour | |
1979 | Geoffrey Dickens | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Huddersfield |
When this seat was abolished in 1983, Dickens was elected MP for the new seat of Littleborough and Saddleworth, which he held until he died in 1995. The area which this seat covered is now held by Labour.
Elections
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Donald William Wade | 24,456 | 58.2 | N/A | |
Labour | H. W. Bolt | 17,542 | 41.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,914 | 16.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 86.9 | N/A | |||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Donald William Wade | 24,054 | 58.5 | ||
Labour | H. W. Bolt | 17,066 | 41.5 | ||
Majority | 6,988 | 17.0 | |||
Turnout | 85.9 | -1.0 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Donald William Wade | 24,345 | 55.1 | ||
Labour | John Frederick Drabble | 16,418 | 44.9 | ||
Majority | 7,927 | 19.4 | |||
Turnout | 79.3 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Donald William Wade | 25,273 | 61.8 | ||
Labour | J. Marsden | 15,621 | 38.2 | ||
Majority | 9,652 | 23.6 | |||
Turnout | 79.7 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kenneth Lomas | 14,808 | 35.8 | ||
Liberal | Donald William Wade | 13,528 | 32.7 | ||
Conservative | John Addey | 13,054 | 31.5 | ||
Majority | 1,280 | 3.1 | |||
Turnout | 81.6 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kenneth Lomas | 17,990 | 43.9 | +8.1 | |
Conservative | John Marcus Fox | 13,514 | 33.0 | +1.5 | |
Liberal | Ruslyn Hargreaves | 9,470 | 23.1 | -9.6 | |
Majority | 4,476 | 10.9 | +7.8 | ||
Turnout | 82.3 | +0.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kenneth Lomas | 16,866 | 41.0 | -2.9 | |
Conservative | Richard Storey | 16,673 | 40.6 | +7.6 | |
Liberal | William John Lawrence Wallace | 6,128 | 14.9 | -8.2 | |
National Front | R. Scott | 1,427 | 3.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 193 | 0.5 | -10.4 | ||
Turnout | 77.3 | -0.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kenneth Lomas | 17,434 | 39.6 | +1.4 | |
Conservative | John Stansfield | 16,804 | 38.2 | -2.4 | |
Liberal | Kathleen Hasler | 9,790 | 22.2 | +7.3 | |
Majority | 630 | 1.4 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 82.9 | +5.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kenneth Lomas | 16,882 | 41.4 | +1.8 | |
Conservative | John Stansfield | 15,518 | 38.0 | -0.2 | |
Liberal | Kathleen Hasler | 7,503 | 18.4 | -3.8 | |
National Front | D. Ford | 760 | 1.9 | N/A | |
More Prosperous Britain | Harold Smith | 136 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,364 | 3.3 | +2.9 | ||
Turnout | 76.3 | -5.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Geoffrey Kenneth Dickens | 18,504 | 44.2 | +6.2 | |
Labour | Richard Oliver Faulkner | 16,996 | 40.6 | -0.8 | |
Liberal | Kathleen Hasler | 6,225 | 14.9 | -3.5 | |
More Prosperous Britain | Tom Keen | 101 | 0.2 | -0.1 | |
Majority | 1,508 | 3.6 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 76.0 | -0.3 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
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- Parliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (historic)
- Politics of Huddersfield
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1950
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983