Huddersfield West (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 53°38′46″N 1°48′11″W / 53.646°N 1.803°W
Huddersfield West | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1950–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Huddersfield and Littleborough and Saddleworth |
Huddersfield West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1950 | Donald Wade | Liberal | |
1964 | Ken Lomas | Labour | |
1979 | Geoffrey Dickens | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Huddersfield |
When this seat was abolished in 1983, Dickens was elected MP for the new seat of Littleborough and Saddleworth, which he held until he died in 1995. The area which this seat covered is now held by Labour.
Elections
Elections in the 1950s
General Election 1950: Huddersfield West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Donald William Wade | 24,456 | 58.2 | N/A | |
Labour | H. W. Bolt | 17,542 | 41.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,914 | 16.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 86.9 | N/A | |||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | N/A | |||
General Election 1951: Huddersfield West | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Donald William Wade | 24,054 | 58.5 | ||
Labour | H. W. Bolt | 17,066 | 41.5 | ||
Majority | 6,988 | 17.0 | |||
Turnout | 85.9 | -1.0 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1955: Huddersfield West | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Donald William Wade | 24,345 | 55.1 | ||
Labour | John Frederick Drabble | 16,418 | 44.9 | ||
Majority | 7,927 | 19.4 | |||
Turnout | 79.3 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1959: Huddersfield West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Donald William Wade | 25,273 | 61.8 | ||
Labour | J. Marsden | 15,621 | 38.2 | ||
Majority | 9,652 | 23.6 | |||
Turnout | 79.7 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
General Election 1964: Huddersfield West | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Kenneth Lomas | 14,808 | 35.8 | ||
Liberal | Donald William Wade | 13,528 | 32.7 | ||
Conservative | John Addey | 13,054 | 31.5 | ||
Majority | 1,280 | 3.1 | |||
Turnout | 81.6 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
General Election 1966: Huddersfield West[1] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Kenneth Lomas | 17,990 | 43.9 | +8.1 | |
Conservative | John Marcus Fox | 13,514 | 33.0 | +1.5 | |
Liberal | Ruslyn Hargreaves | 9,470 | 23.1 | -9.6 | |
Majority | 4,476 | 10.9 | +7.8 | ||
Turnout | 82.3 | +0.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
General Election 1970: Huddersfield West[2] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Kenneth Lomas | 16,866 | 41.0 | -2.9 | |
Conservative | Richard Storey | 16,673 | 40.6 | +7.6 | |
Liberal | William John Lawrence Wallace | 6,128 | 14.9 | -8.2 | |
National Front | R. Scott | 1,427 | 3.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 193 | 0.5 | -10.4 | ||
Turnout | 77.3 | -0.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election February 1974: Huddersfield West[3] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Kenneth Lomas | 17,434 | 39.6 | +1.4 | |
Conservative | John Stansfield | 16,804 | 38.2 | -2.4 | |
Liberal | Kathleen Hasler | 9,790 | 22.2 | +7.3 | |
Majority | 630 | 1.4 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 82.9 | +5.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election October 1974: Huddersfield West[4] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Kenneth Lomas | 16,882 | 41.4 | +1.8 | |
Conservative | John Stansfield | 15,518 | 38.0 | -0.2 | |
Liberal | Kathleen Hasler | 7,503 | 18.4 | -3.8 | |
National Front | D. Ford | 760 | 1.9 | N/A | |
More Prosperous Britain | Harold Smith | 136 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,364 | 3.3 | +2.9 | ||
Turnout | 76.3 | -5.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1979: Huddersfield West[5] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Geoffrey Kenneth Dickens | 18,504 | 44.2 | +6.2 | |
Labour | Richard Oliver Faulkner | 16,996 | 40.6 | -0.8 | |
Liberal | Kathleen Hasler | 6,225 | 14.9 | -3.5 | |
More Prosperous Britain | Tom Keen | 101 | 0.2 | -0.1 | |
Majority | 1,508 | 3.6 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 76.0 | -0.3 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
References
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1966. Politics Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1970. Politics Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election February 1974. Politics Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election October 1974. Politics Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1979. Politics Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
- Election results, 1950 - 1979
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)