Stockport South (UK Parliament constituency)

Stockport South
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1950–1983
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Denton & Reddish and Stockport
Created from	Stockport

Stockport South was a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1983.

Boundaries

The County Borough of Stockport wards of Cale Green, Davenport, Heaviley, Hempshaw Lane, Portwood, St Mary's, St Thomas's, Shaw Heath, and Vernon.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1950	Sir Arnold Gridley	Conservative
	1955 by-election	Harold Steward	Conservative
	1964	Maurice Orbach	Labour
	1979	Tom McNally	Labour
	1981		Social Democrat
1983		constituency abolished: see Stockport & Denton and Reddish

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)