Knutsford (UK Parliament constituency)

Knutsford
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)–1983 (1983)
Number of members	one

Knutsford was a county constituency in Cheshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Alan Egerton	Conservative
	1906	Alfred John King	Liberal
	Jan 1910	Alan John Sykes	Conservative
	1922	Ernest Makins	Conservative
	1945	Walter Bromley-Davenport	Conservative
	1970	John Davies	Conservative
	1979 by-election	Jock Bruce-Gardyne	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1970s

Knutsford by-election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jock Bruce-Gardyne	22,086	67.1	+16.1
	Liberal	Robert Ingham	5,206	15.8	−10.6
	Labour	Alan Barton	5,124	15.6	−7.0
	Independent Conservative	Michael Byrne	486	1.5	N/A
Majority			16,880	51.3	+26.7
Turnout			32,902
	Conservative hold		Swing	+13.4

General Election October 1974: Knutsford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Davies	21,636	51.0
	Liberal	B. Lomax	11,210	26.4
	Labour	D.L. Swain	9.565	22.6
Majority			10,426	24.6
Turnout			42,411	76.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)