Manchester Openshaw (UK Parliament constituency)
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Manchester Openshaw | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1955–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Manchester Openshaw was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Openshaw district of 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 1955 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1955 | W. R. Williams | Labour | |
1963 by-election | Charles Morris | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Election results in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | William Richard Williams | 24,638 | 59.7 | ||
Conservative | H Day | 16,596 | 40.3 | ||
Majority | 8,042 | 19.5 | |||
Turnout | 72.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | William Richard Williams | 24,975 | 60.2 | ||
Conservative | MB Schofield | 16,537 | 39.8 | ||
Majority | 8,438 | 20.3 | |||
Turnout | 76.0 |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Morris | 16,101 | 66 | ||
Conservative | Gerald Fitzsimmons | 7,139 | 29 | ||
Communist | Edwin Marsden | 1,185 | 4 | ||
Majority | 8,962 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Morris | 22,589 | 59.6 | ||
Conservative | Gerald WG Fitzsimmons | 13,387 | 35.3 | ||
Communist | Edwin Marsden | 1,947 | 5.1 | ||
Majority | 9,202 | 24.3 | |||
Turnout | 71.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Morris | 22,103 | 64.9 | ||
Conservative | RJ Chronnell | 10,465 | 30.7 | ||
Communist | Edwin Marsden | 1,479 | 4.3 | ||
Majority | 11,638 | 34.2 | |||
Turnout | 65.9 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Morris | 19,397 | 60.2 | ||
Conservative | BM Allanson | 12,296 | 38.1 | ||
Communist | Bernard Panter | 552 | 1.7 | ||
Majority | 7,101 | 22.0 | |||
Turnout | 63.9 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Morris | 16,478 | 53.5 | ||
Conservative | Aubrey Rosen | 9,021 | 29.3 | ||
Liberal | Arthur Wood | 4,467 | 14.5 | ||
National Front | John Hulse | 541 | 1.8 | ||
Communist | Phillip Widdall | 312 | 1.0 | ||
Majority | 7,457 | 24.2 | |||
Turnout | 73.0 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Morris | 16,109 | 57.6 | +4.1 | |
Conservative | Geoffrey Green | 7,596 | 27.1 | −2.2 | |
Liberal | Arthur Wood | 3,980 | 14.2 | −0.3 | |
Communist | Phillip Widdall | 300 | 1.1 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 8,513 | 30.4 | |||
Turnout | 65.7 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Morris | 17,099 | 62.1 | +4.5 | |
Conservative | Peter Hilton | 9,955 | 36.2 | +9.1 | |
National Front | Alfred Coles | 296 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Communist | Phillip Widdall | 174 | 0.6 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 7,144 | 26.0 | |||
Turnout | 27,524 | 72.8 | |||
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 one unnamed parameter
- Parliamentary constituencies in Manchester (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1955
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983