Widnes (UK Parliament constituency)

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Widnes County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Widnes was a county constituency in England, based on the town of Widnes, in Lancashire. 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 voting system.

1 History
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 References

[edit] History

The constituency was formed as a division of the Parliamentary county of Lancashire in 1885, including Allerton, Cronton, Ditton, Garston, Hale, Halewood, Huyton with Roby, Little Woolton, Much Woolton, Speke, Tarbock, Whiston and Widnes.

In 1918 it was redefined to cover the municipal borough of Widnes, along with the urban districts of Huyton with Roby and the Whiston Rural District. The two urban districts and part of the rural district became part of a new Huyton constituency in 1950, with Widnes retaining the borough and the remainder of the rural district. It remained unchanged in 1974. In 1983 Widnes constituency was abolished and replaced by Halton constituency.^[1]

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Tom Cottingham Edwards-Moss	Conservative
	1892	John Saunders Gilliat	Conservative
	1900	William Hall Walker	Conservative
	1919	Arthur Henderson	Labour
	1922	George Christopher Clayton	Conservative
	1929	Alexander Gordon Cameron	Labour
	1931	Roland Robinson	Conservative
	1935	Richard Antony Pilkington	Conservative
	1945	Christopher Nyholm Shawcross	Labour
	1950	James Eugene MacColl	Labour
	1971	Gordon James Oakes	Labour
1983		constituency abolished