Huddersfield West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Huddersfield West Borough constituency
Created:	1950
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Huddersfield West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Huddersfield 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 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1950	Donald Wade	Liberal
	1964	Kenneth Lomas	Labour
	1979	Geoffrey Dickens	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished: see Huddersfield

[edit] Elections

General Election 1950: Huddersfield West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Donald Wade	24,456	58.2
	Labour	H W Bolt	17,542	41.8
Majority			6,914	16.5
Turnout				86.9
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1951: Huddersfield West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Donald Wade	24,054	58.5
	Labour	H W Bolt	17,066	41.5
Majority			6,988	17.0
Turnout				85.9	-1.0
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Huddersfield West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Donald Wade	24,345	55.1
	Labour	J F Drabble	16,418	44.9
Majority			7,927	19.4
Turnout				79.3
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Huddersfield West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Donald Wade	25,273	61.8
	Labour	J Marsden	15,621	38.2
Majority			9,652	23.6
Turnout				79.7
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1964: Huddersfield West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kenneth Lomas	14,808	35.8
	Liberal	Donald Wade	13,528	32.7
	Conservative	J F W Addey	13,054	31.5
Majority			1,280	3.1
Turnout				81.6
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

[edit] References

• Election results, 1950 - 1979
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page