Blackburn East (UK Parliament constituency)
| Blackburn East | |
|---|---|
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1950–1955 | |
| Number of members | one |
| Replaced by | Blackburn |
| Created from | Blackburn |
Blackburn East was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Blackburn in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, when the former two-member Blackburn constituency was divided into Blackburn East and Blackburn West. It was abolished only five years later, for the 1955 general election, when it was partly replaced by a new single-member Blackburn constituency.
Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Barbara Castle | Labour | |
| 1955 | constituency abolished: see Blackburn | ||
Elections
Elections in the 1950s
| General Election 1950: [1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Barbara Anne Castle | 19,480 | 52.8 | ||
| Conservative | John Anthony Leavey | 14,662 | 39.8 | ||
| Liberal | Harry Hague | 2,743 | 7.4 | ||
| Majority | 4,818 | 13.0 | |||
| Turnout | 89.1 | ||||
| Labour win | |||||
| General Election 1951: [2]
Electorate | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | |||||
| Labour | |||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||