Davyhulme (UK Parliament constituency)
| Davyhulme | |
|---|---|
|
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Greater Manchester |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Stretford and Urmston, Altrincham and Sale West, Wythenshawe and Sale East |
Davyhulme was a parliamentary constituency in the Davyhulme suburb of Greater Manchester. 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.
Its territory was then mostly incorporated into the new Stretford and Urmston constituency.
Boundaries
For its entire existence the constituency was made up of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford wards of Bucklow, Davyhulme East, Davyhulme West, Flixton, Mersey St Mary's, Priory, St Martin's, and Urmston.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Winston Spencer Churchill | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Stretford and Urmston, Altrincham and Sale West, Wythenshawe and Sale East | ||
Elections
Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1992: Davyhulme[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Winston Spencer Churchill | 24,216 | 48.0 | +1.4 | |
| Labour | Barry Brotherton | 19,790 | 39.2 | +8.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Dr. Jacqueline Pearcey | 5,797 | 11.5 | −11.5 | |
| Natural Law | Terence L. Brotheridge | 665 | 1.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,426 | 8.8 | −7.4 | ||
| Turnout | 50,468 | 80.5 | +3.2 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −3.7 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
| General Election 1987: Davyhulme | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Winston Spencer Churchill | 23,633 | 46.6 | +0.6 | |
| Labour | John Robert Nicholson | 15,434 | 30.4 | +3.6 | |
| Liberal | Dennis Ian Wrigley | 11,637 | 23.0 | −4.2 | |
| Majority | 8,199 | 16.17 | |||
| Turnout | 50,704 | 77.3 | +3.4 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −1.5 | |||
| General Election 1983: Davyhulme | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Winston Spencer Churchill | 22,055 | 46.0 | N/A | |
| Liberal | Dennis Ian Wrigley | 13,041 | 27.2 | N/A | |
| Labour | Sean Rogers | 12,887 | 26.8 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,014 | 18.8 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 47,983 | 73.9 | N/A | ||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 1)
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.