Spennymoor (UK Parliament constituency)

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Spennymoor County constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Spennymoor was a county constituency centred on the town of Spennymoor in County Durham. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 4.1 Elections in the 1940s 5 See also 6 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Samuel Galbraith	Liberal
	1922	Joseph Batey	Labour
	1942 by-election	James Dixon Murray	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

Spennymoor by-election, 21st July 1942
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Dixon Murray	(unopposed)
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• Spennymoor by-election, 1942

[edit] References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.[[Category: