Cannock (UK Parliament constituency)
Cannock was a parliamentary constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
Boundaries
1918-1950: The Urban Districts of Brownhills, Cannock, and Tettenhall, the Rural District of Seisdon (the civil parishes of Bobbington, Codsall, Enville, Himley, Kinver, Lower Penn, Patshull, Pattingham, Swindon, Trysull and Seisdon, Upper Penn, Wombourne, and Wrottesley), in the Rural District of Cannock the civil parishes of Bushbury, Choslyn Hay, Essington, Great Wyrley, and Hilton, and in the Rural District of Walsall the civil parish of Bentley.
1950-1974: The Urban Districts of Cannock and Wednesfield, and the Rural District of Cannock (the civil parishes of Acton Trussell and Bednall, Blymhill, Brewood, Cheslyn Hay, Coppenhall, Dunston, Essington, Featherstone, Great Wyrley, Hatherton, Hilton, Huntington, Lapley, Penkridge, Saredon, Shareshill, Stretton, Teddesley Hay, and Weston-under-Lizard).
1974-1983: The Urban Districts of Cannock and Rugeley, and in the Rural District of Lichfield the civil parish of Brindley Heath.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | James Parker | Coalition Labour | |
1922 | William Adamson | Labour | |
1931 | Sarah Ward | Conservative | |
1935 | William Adamson | Labour | |
1945 | Jennie Lee | Labour | |
1970 | Patrick Cormack | Conservative | |
Feb 1974 | Gwilym Roberts | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Cannock and Burntwood |
Election results
General Election 1923: Cannock [1] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | William Murdoch Adamson | 11,956 | 41.4 | ||
Unionist | Wallace Thorneycroft | 9,438 | 32.7 | ||
Liberal | Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander | 7,465 | 25.9 | ||
Majority | 2,518 | 8.7 | |||
Turnout | 28,859 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1929: Cannock [2] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | William Murdoch Adamson | 26,388 | 54.2 | ||
Unionist | Hon. Ralph Edward Blackett Beaumont | 15,055 | 30.9 | ||
Liberal | Abraham Ray | 7,282 | 14.9 | ||
Majority | 11,333 | 23.3 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1979: Cannock | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Gwilym Roberts | 25,050 | 52.76 | -2.78 | |
Conservative | J Vereker | 17,704 | 37.28 | +10.16 | |
Liberal | PJ Davis | 4,729 | 9.96 | -7.38 | |
Majority | 7,346 | 15.47 | -12.95 | ||
Turnout | 47,483 | 79.79 | +3.76 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||