Nelson and Colne (UK Parliament constituency)

Nelson and Colne
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1918 (1918)–1983 (1983)
Number of members	one

Nelson and Colne was a constituency in Lancashire 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.

It was largely succeeded by the Pendle constituency.

Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1918)

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Albert Smith	Labour
	1920 by-election	Robinson Graham	Labour
	1922	Arthur Greenwood	Labour
	1931	Linton Theodore Thorp	Conservative
	1935	Sydney Silverman	Labour
	1968 by-election	David Waddington	Conservative
	Oct 1974	Doug Hoyle	Labour
	1979	John Lee	Conservative

• Constituency abolished (1983)

Results

General Election 1979: Nelson and Colne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Lee	17,522	45.0
	Labour	Doug Hoyle	17,086	43.9
	Liberal	D Hewitt	4,322	11.1
Majority			436	1.1
Turnout				81.6

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)