Stockport (UK Parliament constituency)

Stockport is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

The constituency covers the Brinnington, Cale Green, Davenport, Edgeley, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Moor and Manor wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. Brinnington ward had been in Denton & Reddish from 1983-1997. It was transferred into the Stockport seat at that election.

Politically, Edgeley, Davenport and (especially) Brinnington are good Labour areas; the Tories fight back in the Heatons, and the Lib Dems have local councillors now in Cale Green and Manor. Labour held the seat fairly safely in 2005, but it still has the potential to become a three-way-marginal in the next election if local voting patterns continue.

History

Stockport was created as a two-member constituency by the Reform Act 1832. It survived as such until 1950, when it was partitioned into Stockport North and Stockport South. A single Stockport seat was created in 1983, returning one member, with the remainder of the ex-county borough forming part of the new Denton & Reddish seat.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1832-1950

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	Thomas Marsland	Tory Party	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John Horatio Lloyd	Liberal
1835	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Henry Marsland	Liberal
1841	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" |	Richard Cobden	Radical
Jul 1847	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |			James Heald	Conservative
Dec 1847	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	James Kershaw	Liberal
1852	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |			John Benjamin Smith	Liberal
May 1864	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Edward William Watkin	Liberal
1868	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	William Tipping	Conservative
1874	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Charles Henry Hopwood	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Frederick Pennington	Liberal
1885	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Louis John Jennings	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	William Tipping	Conservative
1886	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Sydney Gedge	Conservative
1892	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Sir Joseph Leigh	Liberal
Feb 1893	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	George Whiteley	Conservative
1895	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Beresford Valentine Melville	Conservative
1900	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |		Liberal
1900	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Joseph Leigh	Liberal
1906	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	James Duckworth	Liberal	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	George Wardle	Labour
Jan 1910	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Spencer Leigh Hughes	Liberal
1918	style="background-color: Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" |		Coalition Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Coalition Labour/meta/color" |		Coalition Labour
1920	style="background-color: Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |	William Greenwood	Coalition Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" |	Henry Fildes	Coalition Liberal
1922	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |		Conservative	style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |		National Liberal
1923	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Charles Royle	Liberal
1924	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Samuel Hammersley	Conservative
1925	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Arnold Townend	Labour
1931	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Alan Dower	Conservative
1935	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Arnold Gridley	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Norman Hulbert	Conservative
1950	Constituency abolished

MPs 1983-present

• Constituency recreated (1983)

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1983	Anthony Favell	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1992	Ann Coffey	Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2000s

General election of 2005

General Election 2005: Stockport

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Coffey	18,069	50.5	−8.1
	Conservative	Elizabeth Berridge	8,906	24.9	−1.0
	Liberal Democrats	Lyn-Su Floodgate	7,832	21.9	+6.4
	UKIP	Richard Simpson	964	2.7	+2.7
Majority			9,163	25.6
Turnout			35,771	54.5	+1.2
	Labour hold		Swing	-3.5

General election of 2001

General Election 2001: Stockport

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Coffey	20,731	58.6	−4.3
	Conservative	John Allen	9,162	25.9	+3.6
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Hunter	5,490	15.5	+4.9
Majority			11,569	32.7
Turnout			35,383	53.3	−18.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election of 1997

General Election 1997: Stockport

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Coffey	29,338	62.9
	Conservative	Stephen Fitzsimmons	10,426	22.3
	Liberal Democrats	Sylvia Roberts	4,951	10.6
	Referendum	William Morley-Scott	1,280	2.7
	Socialist Labour	Geoff Southern	255	0.5
	Monster Raving Loony	Colin Newitt	213	0.5
	Ind. Conservative	Christopher Dronfield	206	0.4
Majority			18,912
Turnout			46,769	71.5
	Labour hold		Swing

General election of 1992

General Election 1992: Stockport

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Coffey	21,096	44.1
	Conservative	Anthony Favell	19,674	41.1
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Corris	6,539	13.7
	Green	Judith Filmore	436	0.9
	Natural Law	D Saunders	50	0.1
Majority			1,422	2.3
Turnout			47,795	82.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General election of 1987

General Election 1987: Stockport

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Favell	19,410	41.4
	Labour	S Haines	16,557	35.3
	SDP	J L Begg	10,365	22.1
	Green	M Shipley	573	1.2
Majority			2,853	6.1
Turnout				78.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election of 1983

General Election 1983: Stockport

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Favell	18,517	42.1
	Labour	P R Ward	12,731	29.0
	SDP	Tom McNally	12,129	27.6
	Ecology	M Shipley	369	0.8
	Nationalist	K Walker	194	0.4
Majority			5,786	13.2
Turnout				74.6

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Stockport (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arnold Gridley	31,039	20.6	− 10.1
	Conservative	Norman Hulbert	30,792	20.4	− 9.6
	Labour	A. R. Stamp	29,674	19.6	− 0.5
	Labour	C. T. Douthwaite	28,798	19.6	+ 0.4
	Liberal	H. Sletherland	14,994	9.9	N/A
	Liberal	F. W. Malbon	14,942	9.9	N/A
Majority			1,118	0.8	− 9.1
Turnout				77.2	− 2.3
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Stockport (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arnold Gridley	43,882	30.7	− 6.3
	Conservative	Norman Hulbert	43,001	30.0	− 4.7
	Labour	James Hindle Hudson	28,798	20.1	+ 3.1
	Labour	C. T. Douthwaite	27,528	19.2	N/A
Majority			14,203	9.9	− 7.8
Turnout				79.5	− 4.6
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Stockport (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Hammersley	50,936	37.0	+ 11.3
	Conservative	Alan Dower	47,757	34.7	+ 15.2
	Labour	Arnold Townend	23,350	17.0	− 10.4
	Ind. Labour Party	J. T. Abbott	15,591	11.3	N/A
Majority			24,407	17.7	+ 12.0
Turnout				84.1	− 0.5
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Stockport (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arnold Townend	30,955	27.4
	Conservative	Samuel Hammersley	29,043	25.7
	Liberal	Henry Fildes	22,595	20.0
	Conservative	E. N. Lingen-Barker	22,047	19.5
	Independent Liberal	Charles Royle	8,355	7.4
Majority			6,448	5.7
Turnout				84.6
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Stockport by-election, 1925

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arnold Townend	20,219	36.5
	Conservative	T. Eastham	17,892	32.3
	Liberal	Henry Fildes	17,296	31.2
Majority			2,327	4.2
Turnout			55,407	85.7	−0.2
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1924: Stockport (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Greenwood	28,057	31.6
	Conservative	Samuel Hammersley	26,417	29.7
	Labour	Arnold Townend	21,986	24.8	+6.8
	Liberal	Charles Royle	12,386	13.9
Majority			4,431	4.9
Turnout			88,846	85.9	+4.2
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1923: Stockport (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Greenwood	20,308	22.4
	Liberal	Charles Royle	19,223	21.2
	Conservative	Samuel Hammersley	18,129	20.0
	Liberal	Henry Fildes	16,756	18.4
	Labour	Arnold Townend	16,340	18.0
Majority			3,552	4.0
Majority			1,094	1.2
Turnout				71.7
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1922: Stockport (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal Party (UK)	Henry Fildes	35,241	34.4
	Conservative	William Greenwood	33,852	33.1
	Co-operative Party	Samuel Perry	17,059	16.7
	Labour	J C H Robinson	16,126	15.8
Majority			18,182	17.7
Majority			16,793	16.4
Turnout				81.2
	National Liberal Party (UK) hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Stockport by-election, 1920 (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Conservative	William Greenwood	22,847
	National Liberal	Henry Fildes	22,386
	Labour	Leo Chiozza Money	16,042
	Co-operative Party	Samuel Perry	14,434
	Independent	A. G. Kindell	5,644
	Independent	J. J. Terrett	5,543
	Ind. Republican	William X. O'Brien	2,336
Majority			6,805	7.7
Majority			6,344	7.1
Turnout				73.5
	Coalition Conservative gain from Coalition Labour		Swing
	National Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Stockport (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Spencer Leigh Hughes
	Coalition Labour	George Wardle
Registered electors
	National Liberal hold		Swing
	Coalition Labour hold		Swing

In the 1918 general election, Spencer Leigh Hughes and George Wardle were elected unopposed.

Sources

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
• Historical list of MPs
• Election results, 1992-2005 (Guardian)
• Election results 1983-1992
• John McHugh, The Stockport by-election of 1920

See also

• Stockport by-election, 1920
• Stockport by-election, 1925
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester