Stockport North (UK Parliament constituency)

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Stockport North Borough constituency
Created:	1950
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Stockport North was a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1983.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 References

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency was an urban one, originally located in the County of Cheshire and comprising wards of the County Borough of Stockport (and in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport from April 1974 until the seat's abolition in 1983). In 1950 it was defined as the following wards:

Edgeley
Heaton Lane
Heaton Norris North
Heaton Norris South
Hollywood
Lancashire Hill
Old Road
Reddish North
Reddish South

All these wards had previously been part of the two-member constituency of Stockport.

A minor change in boundaries was made at the February 1974 election, because of changes in ward boundaries which had taken effect in 1971. The constituency was defined as the following wards:

Cheadle Heath
Edgeley
Heaton Chapel
Heaton Mersey
Heaton Moor
Heaton Norris
Lancashire Hill
Longford
Reddish Green

The constituency was abolished at the 1983 general election, with 60% of the electorate going to the new single-member Stockport constituency, and 40% going to form the new Denton and Reddish constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Always a fairly marginal seat, the constituency changed hands at the 1964, 1970 and February 1974 general elections.

Election		Member	Party
	1950	Sir Norman Hulbert	Conservative
	1964	Arnold Gregory	Labour
	1970	Idris Owen	Conservative
	1974	Andrew Bennett	Labour
1983		constituency abolished: see Stockport and Denton & Reddish