| Nelson and Colne | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1918–1983 | |
| Number of members | one |
Nelson and Colne was a constituency in Lancashire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
It was largely succeeded by the Pendle constituency.
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Albert Smith | Labour | |
| 1920 by-election | Robinson Graham | Labour | |
| 1922 | Arthur Greenwood | Labour | |
| 1931 | Linton Theodore Thorp | Conservative | |
| 1935 | Sydney Silverman | Labour | |
| 1968 by-election | David Waddington | Conservative | |
| Oct 1974 | Doug Hoyle | Labour | |
| 1979 | John Lee | Conservative | |
| General Election 1979: Nelson and Colne | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | John Lee | 17,522 | 45.0 | ||
| Labour | Doug Hoyle | 17,086 | 43.9 | ||
| Liberal | D Hewitt | 4,322 | 11.1 | ||
| Majority | 436 | 1.1 | |||
| Turnout | 81.6 | ||||