Halton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Halton County constituency
Halton shown within Cheshire, and Cheshire shown within England
Created:	1983
MP:	Derek Twigg
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Cheshire
EP constituency:	North West England

Halton is a county constituency in Cheshire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary Review 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

Halton constituency sits on either side of the River Mersey and comprises Widnes, the original town of Runcorn (with a small part of the new town) and Hale village. It consists of 14 electoral wards; Hale, Ditton, Riverside, Hough Green, Broadheath, Kingsway, Birchfield, Farnworth, Appleton, Halton, Mersey, Heath, Grange and Halton Brook.

[edit] Boundary Review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cheshire, the Boundary Commission for England have made minor changes to the existing arrangement as a consequence of population changes. The electoral wards used in this modified constituency are;

• Appleton, Birchfield, Broadheath, Castlefields, Ditton, Farnworth, Grange, Hale, Halton Brook, Halton View, Heath, Hough Green, Kingsway, Mersey and Riverside from the borough of Halton

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1983	Gordon Oakes	Labour	Junior minister 1974–1976. Retired 1997, died 2005
	1987
	1992
	1997	Derek Twigg	Labour	Junior minister 2004—
	2001
	2005

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Halton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Derek Twigg	21,460	62.8	-6.4
	Conservative	Colin Bloom	6,854	20.1	+1.5
	Liberal Democrat	Roger Barlow	5,869	17.2	+5.0
Majority			14,606	42.7
Turnout			34,183	53.1	-1.0
	Labour hold		Swing	-3.9

General Election 2001: Halton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Derek Twigg	23,841	69.2	-1.7
	Conservative	Chris Davenport	6,413	18.6	+0.9
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Walker	4,216	12.2	+4.9
Majority			17,428	50.6
Turnout			34,470	54.1	-14.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Halton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Derek Twigg	31,497	70.9	+11.3
	Conservative	Philip Balmer	7,847	17.7	-12.6
	Liberal Democrat	Janet Jones	3,263	7.3	-1.5
	Referendum Party	Reginald Atkins	1,036	2.3
	Liberal	David Proffitt	600	1.4
	Republican	John Alley	196	0.4
Majority			23,650	53.2
Turnout			44,439	68.3
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Halton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gordon Oakes	35,005	59.7
	Conservative	G.L. Mercer	16,821	28.6
	Liberal Democrat	D. Reaper	6,104	10.4
	Monster Raving Loony	S. Herley	398	0.7
	Natural Law	N.G. Collins	338	0.6
Majority			18,184	31.1
Turnout			58,666	78.3
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Halton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gordon Oakes	32,065	55.5
	Conservative	J.G. Hardman	17,487	30.2
	Social Democrat	H.F. Clucas	8,272	14.3
Majority			14,578	25.3
Turnout			57,824	78.3
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Halton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gordon Oakes	24,752	46.4
	Conservative	P.M. Pedley	17,923	33.6
	Social Democrat	T.R. Tilling	10,649	20.0
Majority			6,829	12.8
Turnout			53,324	73.3

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire

Constituencies in North West England
Labour	Ashton-under-Lyne | Barrow and Furness | Birkenhead | Blackburn | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Blackpool South | Bolton North East | Bolton South East | Bolton West | Bootle | Burnley | Bury North | Bury South | Carlisle | Chorley | City of Chester | Copeland | Crosby | Denton and Reddish | Eccles | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Halton | Heywood and Middleton | Hyndburn | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Knowsley South | Leigh | Liverpool Garston | Liverpool Riverside | Liverpool Walton | Liverpool Wavertree | Liverpool West Derby | Makerfield | Manchester Blackley | Manchester Central | Manchester Gorton | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Oldham West and Royton | Pendle | Preston | Rossendale and Darwen | Salford | South Ribble | St Helens North | St Helens South | Stalybridge and Hyde | Stockport | Stretford and Urmston | Wallasey | Warrington North | Warrington South | Weaver Vale | West Lancashire | Wigan | Wirral South | Wirral West | Workington | Worsley | Wythenshawe and Sale East
Conservative	Altrincham and Sale West | Crewe and Nantwich | Congleton | Eddisbury | Fylde | Lancaster and Wyre | Macclesfield | Penrith and The Border | Ribble Valley | Tatton
Liberal Democrat	Cheadle | Hazel Grove | Manchester Withington | Rochdale | Southport | Westmorland and Lonsdale
North West European constituency: Conservative (4) | Labour (3) | Liberal Democrats (1) | UKIP (1)