Bury and Radcliffe (UK Parliament constituency)

Bury and Radcliffe
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Lancashire, until 1974; Greater Manchester, from 1974
Major settlements	Bury and Radcliffe
1950 (1950)–1983 (1983)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Bury North Bury South
Created from	Bury Heywood and Radcliffe

Bury and Radcliffe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Bury and Radcliffe in North West England. 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, when it was split into two new constituencies – Bury North and Bury South.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1950	Sir Walter Fletcher	Conservative
	1955	John Bidgood	Conservative
	1964	David Ensor	Labour
	1970	Michael Fidler	Conservative
	Oct 1974	Frank White	Labour
1983		constituency abolished: see Bury North and Bury South

Election results

Elections in the 1960s

Bury and Radcliffe, 1966
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Ensor	26,769	49.79
	Conservative	John Bidgood	22,298	41.48
	Liberal	C Scholes	4,694	8.73
Majority			4,471	8.32
Turnout				81.25
	Labour hold		Swing

Bury and Radcliffe, 1964
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Ensor	23,865	44.12
	Conservative	John Bidgood	22,639	41.85
	Liberal	C Scholes	7,589	14.03
Majority			1,226	2.27
Turnout				82.32
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

Bury and Radcliffe, 1959
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Bidgood	28,623	53.66
	Labour	R P Walsh	24,715	46.34
Majority			3,908	7.33
Turnout				82.19
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bury and Radcliffe, 1955
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Bidgood	28,080	53.58
	Labour	T Brennan	24,331	46.42	+3.94
Majority			3,749	7.15
Turnout				80.16
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bury and Radcliffe, 1951
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Walter Fletcher	29,949	50.75	+4.97
	Labour	LET Wright	28,058	48.37	+3.94
Majority			1,891	3.26	+1.91
Turnout				86.46	-0.58
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bury and Radcliffe, 1950
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Walter Fletcher	26,485	45.78
	Labour	J Owen	25,705	44.43
	Liberal	C Hindley	5,662	9.79
Majority			780	1.35
Turnout				87.04
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)