Farnworth | |
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Former County constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
1918 –1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Farnworth was a county constituency in Lancashire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
Contents |
From 1885 to 1918 the Farnworth area had been included in the Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth constituency.
The Farnworth constituency included Farnworth, Walkden and Little Hulton.[1]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Edward Bagley | Conservative | |
1922 | Thomas Greenall | Labour | |
1929 | Guy Rowson | Labour | |
1931 | James Stones | Conservative | |
1935 | Guy Rowson | Labour | |
1938 by-election | George Tomlinson | Labour | |
1952 by-election | Ernest Thornton | Labour | |
1970 | John Roper | Labour Co-operative | |
1981 | SDP | ||
1983 | constituency abolished |
General Election 1979: Farnworth [2] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour Co-op | John Roper | 27,965 | 50.06 | ||
Conservative | S. Windle | 19,858 | 35.55 | ||
Liberal | Margaret Patricia Rothwell [3] | 8,043 | 14.40 | ||
Majority | 8,107 | 14.51 | |||
Turnout | 77.76 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election October 1974: Farnworth [4] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour Co-op | John Roper | 28,184 | 53.45 | ||
Conservative | R. H. Shepherd | 13,489 | 25.58 | ||
Liberal | Margaret Patricia Rothwell [3] | 11,059 | 20.97 | ||
Majority | 14,695 | 27.87 | |||
Turnout | 74.73 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election February 1974: Farnworth [5] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour Co-op | John Roper | 28,068 | 49.75 | ||
Conservative | Albert Samuel Royse [6] | 15,431 | 27.35 | ||
Liberal | Margaret Patricia Rothwell [3] | 12,918 | 22.90 | ||
Majority | 12,637 | 22.40 | |||
Turnout | 80.73 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1970: Farnworth [7] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour Co-op | John Roper | 29,392 | 58.48 | ||
Conservative | I. A. Johnston | 20,867 | 41.52 | ||
Majority | 8,525 | 16.96 | |||
Turnout | 72.26 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1966: Farnworth [8] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Ernest Thornton | 30,015 | 66.19 | ||
Conservative | M. Andrew | 15,329 | 33.81 | ||
Majority | 14,686 | 32.39 | |||
Turnout | 74.78 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1964: Farnworth [9] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Ernest Thornton | 28,492 | 62.06 | ||
Conservative | Albert Samuel Royse [6] | 17,421 | 37.94 | ||
Majority | 11,071 | 24.11 | |||
Turnout | 78.79 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1959: Farnworth [10] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Ernest Thornton | 27,393 | 58.60 | ||
Conservative | Albert Samuel Royse [6] | 19,356 | 41.40 | ||
Majority | 8,037 | 17.19 | |||
Turnout | 83.34 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1955: Farnworth [11] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Ernest Thornton | 24,829 | 57.66 | ||
Conservative | D. C. Waddington | 18,231 | 42.34 | ||
Majority | 6,598 | 15.32 | |||
Turnout | 81.53 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Farnworth by-election 27 November 1952 [12] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | George Tomlinson | 21,834 | |||
Conservative | D. H. Moore | 14,615 | |||
Majority | 7,219 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1951: Farnworth [13] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | George Tomlinson | 26,297 | 59.22 | ||
Conservative | J. Seddon | 18,112 | 40.78 | ||
Majority | 8,185 | 18.43 | |||
Turnout | 86.75 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1950: Farnworth [14] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | George Tomlinson | 25,375 | 56.60 | ||
Conservative | F. Kay | 14,266 | 31.82 | ||
Liberal | A. Lomax | 5,189 | 11.57 | ||
Majority | 11,109 | 24.78 | |||
Turnout | 88.14 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1945: Farnworth [15] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | George Tomlinson | 28,462 | 66.14 | ||
Conservative | F. Howard | 14,570 | 33.86 | ||
Majority | 13,892 | 32.28 | |||
Turnout | 77.47 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |