Darwen | |
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Former County constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
1885–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Darwen was a county constituency in Lancashire, centred on the town of Darwen. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
During the 1920s, the constituency was a fiercely contested marginal between the Liberal and Conservative Parties, with the sitting MP defeated at each election. At the 1924 general election, it saw a 92.7% turnout, a record for an English constituency.
It was largely replaced by the new Rossendale & Darwen constituency.
Contents |
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | James Gascoyne-Cecil | Conservative | |
1892 | Charles Philip Huntington | Liberal | |
1895 | Ald. John Rutherford | Conservative | |
Jan 1910 | Frederick George Hindle | Liberal | |
Dec 1910 | Ald. John Rutherford | Conservative | |
1922 | Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson | Conservative | |
1923 | Frederick Hindle | Liberal | |
1924 | Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson | Conservative | |
1929 | Sir Herbert Samuel | Liberal | |
1935 | Stuart Russell | Conservative | |
1943 by-election | Stanley Prescott | Conservative | |
1951 | Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished |
Darwen by-election, 1943 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Stanley Prescott | 8,869 | 50.2 | +9.1 | |
Independent Liberal | Honor Balfour | 8,799 | 49.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 70 | 0.4 | −2.7 | ||
Turnout | 17,668 | 45.0 | −43.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |