Stretford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Stretford
County constituency
Created: 1885
Abolished: 1997
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Stretford was a parliamentary constituency in Lancashire, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was replaced by the new Stretford and Urmston constituency.

Contents

[edit] Boundaries


[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1885 William Agnew Liberal
1886 Sir John William Maclure Unionist
1901 Charles Cripps Unionist
1906 Harry Nuttall Liberal
1918 Thomas Robinson Liberal, then Constitutionalist, then Independent
1931 Gustav Adolph Renwick Conservative
1935 Anthony Crommelin Crossley Conservative
1939 (by-election) Ralph Humphrey Etherton Conservative
1945 Herschel Lewis Austin Labour
1950 Sir Samuel Storey Conservative
1966 Ernest Davies Conservative
1970 Winston Churchill Conservative
1983 Tony Lloyd Labour
1997 constituency abolished: see Stretford and Urmston

[edit] Election results


[edit] References