Warrington (UK Parliament constituency)

Warrington
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1832 (1832)–1983 (1983)
Number of members One
Replaced by Warrington North and Warrington South
Created from Lancashire

Warrington was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. From 1832 to 1983 it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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History

The Warrington constituency covered the central part of the town of Warrington in Lancashire and surrounding area.

In 1983 it was abolished and replaced by Warrington North and Warrington South constituencies.

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1832 William Edmund George Hornby Liberal
1835 John Ireland Blackburne Conservative
1847 Gilbert Greenall Conservative
1868 Peter Rylands Liberal
1874 Gilbert Greenall Conservative
1880 John Gordon McMinnies Liberal
1885 Gilbert Greenall Conservative
1892 Robert Pierpont Conservative
1906 Arthur Henry Crosfield Liberal
1910 (December) Sir Harold Smith Conservative
1922 Alec Cunningham-Reid Conservative
1923 Charles Dukes Labour
1924 Alec Cunningham-Reid Conservative
1929 Charles Dukes Labour
1931 Noel Barré Goldie Conservative
1945 Edward Porter Labour
1950 Hyacinth Morgan Labour
1955 Edith Summerskill Labour
1961 by-election Thomas Williams Labour
1981 by-election Doug Hoyle Labour
1983 Constituency abolished. See Warrington North and Warrington South

Elections

Warrington by-election, 1981
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Doug Hoyle 14,280 48.4 - 13.3
Social Democrat Roy Jenkins 12,521 42.4 N/A
Conservative Stanley Sorrell 2,102 7.1 - 21.7
Ecology Neil Chantrell 219 0.8 N/A
United Democratic Labour Party Daniel Hussey 149 0.5 N/A
Citizen's Band Radio Party Iain Leslie 111 0.4 N/A
Independent Labour John Fleming 53 0.2 N/A
Social Democrat (1979) Donald Kean 38 0.1 - 0.4
Democratic Monarchist Bill Boaks 14 0.1 N/A
English Democratic Party Harry Wise 11 0.0 N/A
More Prosperous Britain Tom Keen 10 0.0 N/A
Majority 1,759 6.0 - 26.8
Turnout 67.0 - 4.3
Labour hold Swing

References