Batley and Morley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Batley and Morley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Batley and Morley 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 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. It was then partly replaced by Batley and Spen and partly by Morley and Leeds South.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Gerald Ashburner France	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Ben Turner	Labour
	1924	Walter Forrest	Liberal
	1929	Sir Ben Turner	Labour
	1931	Wilfrid Dewhurst Wills	Conservative
	1935	Willie Brooke	Labour
	1939	Hubert Beaumont	Labour
	1949	Sir Alfred Davies Devonsher Broughton	Labour
	1979	Kenneth Woolmer	Labour
1983		constituency abolished: see Batley & Spen and Morley and Leeds South

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.