| Stockport North | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1950–1983 | |
| Number of members | one |
| Replaced by | Denton & Reddish and Stockport |
| Created from | Stockport |
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.
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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:
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:
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.
Always a fairly marginal seat, the constituency changed hands at the 1964, 1970 and February 1974 general elections.
| Election | Member [1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Sir Norman Hulbert | Conservative | |
| 1964 | Arnold Gregory | Labour | |
| 1970 | Idris Owen | Conservative | |
| Feb 1974 | Andrew Bennett | Labour | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished: see Stockport & Denton and Reddish | ||