Wyre (UK Parliament constituency)

Wyre
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Lancashire
1983 (1983)–1997 (1997)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Lancaster and Wyre
Created from	Fylde North

Wyre was a parliamentary constituency in the Wyre district of Lancashire.

It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election. It was then partially replaced by the new constituency of Lancaster and Wyre.

Contents

1 Members of Parliament
2 Elections
- 2.1 Elections in the 1990s
3 See also
4 Notes and references

Members of Parliament

Year		Member^[1]	Party
	1983	Sir Walter Clegg	Conservative
	1987	Keith Mans	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Wyre^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Keith Mans	29,449	54.6	+1.6
	Labour	DS Borrow	17,785	33.0	+11.8
	Liberal Democrat	JA Ault	6,420	11.9	−12.1
	Natural Law	RV Perry	260	0.5	N/A
Majority			11,664	21.6	−7.4
Turnout			53,914	79.5	+4.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	−5.1

See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire

Notes and references

^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.