Blackpool North (UK Parliament constituency)

Blackpool North
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Lancashire
1945 (1945)–1997 (1997)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Blackpool North and Fleetwood
Created from	Blackpool

Blackpool North was a borough constituency in Lancashire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was created for the 1945 general election, when the former constituency of Blackpool was split in two, and abolished for the 1997 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Blackpool North & Fleetwood constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1945	Sir Toby Low	Conservative
	1962 by-election	Norman Miscampbell	Conservative
	1992	Harold Elletson	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Blackpool North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Harold Elletson	21,501	47.7	−0.3
	Labour	ET Kirton	18,461	41.0	+10.0
	Liberal Democrat	AP Lahiff	4,786	10.6	−10.3
	Monster Raving Loony	Sir G Francis	178	0.4	N/A
	Natural Law	HB Walker	125	0.3	N/A
Majority			3,040	6.7	−10.2
Turnout			45,051	77.5	+4.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	−5.1

Elections in the 1960s

Blackpool North by-election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Norman Miscampbell	12,711	38.3
	Liberal	Harry Hague	11,738	35.3
	Labour	Shirley Summerskill	8,776	26.4
Majority			973
Turnout			33,225
	Conservative hold		Swing

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire
• The town of Blackpool

Sources

• F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-73