Wyre (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Wyre | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| County | Lancashire |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Lancaster and Wyre |
| Created from | Fylde North |
Coordinates: 53°59′06″N 2°45′47″W / 53.985°N 2.763°W Wyre was a parliamentary constituency in the Wyre district of Lancashire.
It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election. It was then partially replaced by the new constituency of Lancaster and Wyre.
Contents |
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Sir Walter Clegg | Conservative | |
| 1987 | Keith Mans | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished | ||
[edit] Elections
[edit] Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1992: Wyre[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Keith Mans | 29,449 | 54.6 | +1.6 | |
| Labour | DS Borrow | 17,785 | 33.0 | +11.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | JA Ault | 6,420 | 11.9 | −12.1 | |
| Natural Law | RV Perry | 260 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Majority | 11,664 | 21.6 | −7.4 | ||
| Turnout | 53,914 | 79.5 | +4.2 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −5.1 | |||
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
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