Stockport (UK Parliament constituency)

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Stockport
Borough constituency

Stockport shown within Greater Manchester, and Greater Manchester shown within England
Created: 1832, 1983
MP: Ann Coffey
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
County: Greater Manchester
EP constituency: North West England

Stockport is a borough constituency 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.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the Brinnington, Cale Green, Davenport, Edgeley, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Moor and Manor wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. Brinnington ward had been in Denton & Reddish from 1983-1997. It was transferred into the Stockport seat at that election.

Politically, Edgeley, Davenport and (especially) Brinnington are good Labour areas; the Tories fight back in the Heatons, and the Lib Dems have local councillors now in Cale Green and Manor. Labour held the seat fairly safely in 2005, but it still has the potential to become a three-way-marginal in the next election if local voting patterns continue.

[edit] History

Stockport was created as a two-member constituency by the Reform Act 1832. It survived as such until 1950, when it was partitioned into Stockport North and Stockport South. A single Stockport seat was created in 1983, returning one member, with the remainder of the ex-county borough forming part of the new Denton & Reddish seat.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1832-1950

Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1832 Thomas Marsland Tory Party John Horatio Lloyd Liberal
1835 Henry Marsland Liberal
1841 Richard Cobden Radical
Jul 1847 James Heald Conservative
Dec 1847 James Kershaw Liberal
1852 John Benjamin Smith Liberal
May 1864 Edward William Watkin Liberal
1868 William Tipping Conservative
1874 Charles Henry Hopwood Liberal Frederick Pennington Liberal
1885 Louis John Jennings William Tipping
1886 Sydney Gedge
1892 Sir Joseph Leigh
Feb 1893 George Whiteley Liberal
1895 Beresford Valentine Melville
1900 Sir Joseph Leigh
1906 James Duckworth George Wardle Labour
Jan 1910 Spencer Leigh Hughes Liberal
1918 Coalition Liberal Coalition Labour
1920 William Greenwood Coalition Conservative Henry Fildes Coalition Liberal
1922 Conservative National Liberal
1923 Charles Royle Liberal
1924 Samuel Hammersley Conservative
1925 Arnold Townend Labour
1931 Alan Dower Conservative
1935 Sir Arnold Gridley Conservative Norman Hulbert Conservative
1950 Constituency abolished

[edit] MPs 1983-present

  • Constituency recreated (1983)
Election Member Party
1983 Anthony Favell Conservative
1987
1992 Ann Coffey Labour
1997
2001
2005

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

[edit] General election of 2005

General Election 2005: Stockport
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Coffey 18,069 50.5 -8.1
Conservative Elizabeth Berridge 8,906 24.9 -1.0
Liberal Democrat Lyn-Su Floodgate 7,832 21.9 +6.4
UK Independence Richard Simpson 964 2.7 +2.7
Majority 9,163 25.6
Turnout 35,771 54.5 +1.2
Labour hold Swing -3.5

[edit] General election of 2001

General Election 2001: Stockport
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Coffey 20,731 58.6 -4.3
Conservative John Allen 9,162 25.9 +3.6
Liberal Democrat Mark Hunter 5,490 15.5 +4.9
Majority 11,569 32.7
Turnout 35,383 53.3 -18.0
Labour hold Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

[edit] General election of 1997

General Election 1997: Stockport
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Coffey 29,338 62.9
Conservative Stephen Fitzsimmons 10,426 22.3
Liberal Democrat Sylvia Roberts 4,951 10.6
Referendum Party William Morley-Scott 1,280 2.7
Socialist Labour Geoff Southern 255 0.5
Monster Raving Loony Colin Newitt 213 0.5
Independent Conservative Christopher Dronfield 206 0.4
Majority 18,912
Turnout 46,769 71.5
Labour hold Swing

[edit] General election of 1992

General Election 1992: Stockport
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Coffey 21,096 44.1
Conservative Anthony Favell 19,674 41.1
Liberal Democrat Anne Corris 6,539 13.7
Green Judith Filmore 436 0.9
Natural Law D Saunders 50 0.1
Majority 1,422 2.3
Turnout 47,795 82.3
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

[edit] General election of 1987

General Election 1987: Stockport
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Anthony Favell 19,410 41.4
Labour S Haines 16,557 35.3
Social Democrat J L Begg 10,365 22.1
Green M Shipley 573 1.2
Majority 2,853 6.1
Turnout 78.1
Conservative hold Swing

[edit] General election of 1983

General Election 1983: Stockport
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Anthony Favell 18,517 42.1
Labour P R Ward 12,731 29.0
Social Democrat Tom McNally 12,129 27.6
Ecology M Shipley 369 0.8
Nationalist K Walker 194 0.4
Majority 5,786 13.2
Turnout 74.6

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Stockport (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Arnold Gridley 31,039 20.6 - 10.1
Conservative Norman Hulbert 30,792 20.4 - 9.6
Labour A. R. Stamp 29,674 19.6 - 0.5
Labour C. T. Douthwaite 28,798 19.6 + 0.4
Liberal H. Sletherland 14,994 9.9 N/A
Liberal F. W. Malbon 14,942 9.9 N/A
Majority 1,118 0.8 - 9.1
Turnout 77.2 - 2.3
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Stockport (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Arnold Gridley 43,882 30.7 - 6.3
Conservative Norman Hulbert 43,001 30.0 - 4.7
Labour James Hindle Hudson 28,798 20.1 + 3.1
Labour C. T. Douthwaite 27,528 19.2 N/A
Majority 14,203 9.9 - 7.8
Turnout 79.5 - 4.6
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1931: Stockport (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Samuel Hammersley 50,936 37.0 + 11.3
Conservative Alan Dower 47,757 34.7 + 15.2
Labour Arnold Townend 23,350 17.0 - 10.4
Ind. Labour Party J. T. Abbott 15,591 11.3 N/A
Majority 24,407 17.7 + 12.0
Turnout 84.1 - 0.5
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Conservative hold Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Stockport (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arnold Townend 30,955 27.4
Conservative Samuel Hammersley 29,043 25.7
Liberal Henry Fildes 22,595 20.0
Conservative E. N. Lingen-Barker 22,047 19.5
Independent Liberal Charles Royle 8,355 7.4
Majority 6,448 5.7
Turnout 84.6
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Stockport by-election, 1925
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arnold Townend 20,219 36.5
Conservative T. Eastham 17,892 32.3
Liberal Henry Fildes 17,296 31.2
Majority 2,327 4.2
Turnout 55,407 85.7 −0.2
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
General Election 1924: Stockport (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Greenwood 28,057 31.6
Conservative Samuel Hammersley 26,417 29.7
Labour Arnold Townend 21,986 24.8 +6.8
Liberal Charles Royle 12,386 13.9
Majority 4,431 4.9
Turnout 88,846 85.9 +4.2
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing
General Election 1923: Stockport (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Greenwood 20,308 22.4
Liberal Charles Royle 19,223 21.2
Conservative Samuel Hammersley 18,129 20.0
Liberal Henry Fildes 16,756 18.4
Labour Arnold Townend 16,340 18.0
Majority 3,552 4.0
Majority 1,094 1.2
Turnout 71.7
Conservative hold Swing
Liberal hold Swing
General Election 1922: Stockport (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal Henry Fildes 35,241 34.4
Conservative William Greenwood 33,852 33.1
Co-operative Party Samuel Perry 17,059 16.7
Labour J C H Robinson 16,126 15.8
Majority 18,182 17.7
Majority 16,793 16.4
Turnout 81.2
National Liberal hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Stockport by-election, 1920 (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Conservative William Greenwood 22,847
Coalition Liberal Henry Fildes 22,386
Labour Leo Chiozza Money 16,042
Co-operative Party Samuel Perry 14,434
Independent A. G. Kindell 5,644
Independent J. J. Terrett 5,543
Independent Republican William X. O'Brien 2,336
Majority 6,805 7.7
Majority 6,344 7.1
Turnout 73.5
Coalition Conservative gain from Coalition Labour Swing
Coalition Liberal hold Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Stockport (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Liberal Spencer Leigh Hughes
Coalition Labour George Wardle
Registered Electors
Coalition Liberal hold Swing
Coalition Labour hold Swing
In the 1918 general election, Spencer Leigh Hughes and George Wardle were elected unopposed.

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