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Stockport
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Stockport in Greater Manchester
Outline map
Location of Greater Manchester within England
CountyGreater Manchester
Electorate62,764 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlementsStockport
Current constituency
Created1983
Member of ParliamentAnn Coffey (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created fromStockport North, Stockport South
1832–1950
SeatsTwo
Replaced byStockport North, Stockport South

Stockport is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1992 by Ann Coffey, a member of the Labour Party.[n 2]

Boundaries

1983-1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport wards of Cale Green, Davenport, Edgeley, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Moor, and Manor.

1997-2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport wards of Brinnington, Cale Green, Davenport, Edgeley, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Moor, and Manor.

2010-present: The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport wards of Brinnington and Central, Davenport and Cale Green, Edgeley and Cheadle Heath, Heatons North, Heatons South, and Manor.

History

Stockport was created as a two-member constituency by the Reform Act 1832. It survived as such until 1950, when it was split into single-member seats of Stockport North and Stockport South.

The single Stockport seat was recreated in 1983 on a more central ambit, returning one member, with the remainder of the ex-county borough forming part of the new Denton and Reddish seat.

Prominent members

Edward William Watkin was a railway entrepreneur, who helped to fund and plan lines across Britain, in Canada and, to a lesser extent, in the USA.

George Whiteley became later in his tenure for Stockport Chief Whip between 1905 and 1908 in the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith.

In the 21st century, Ann Coffey was PPS to the Chancellor of the Exchequer while this role was held by Alastair Darling.

Constituency profile

The historic town at the centre of the seat now has good links to Manchester city centre and is close to Alderley Edge and fairly close to the Peak District National Park to one side and access to the M6 on the other. The area has a Council which is currently in 'No Overall Control'. The most recent opposition has been relatively strong but equally split between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats have in local elections to date been strongest in Davenport and Cale Green, and Manor whereas the Conservatives have been strongest in Heatons North, having had councillors in these wards. The Labour Party have been strongest in the other two wards to date. Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 higher than the national average of 3.8%, and regional average of 4.4% at 4.9% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.[2]

Members of Parliament

MPs 1832–1950

Election 1st Member[3] 1st Party 2nd Member[3] 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
July 1847 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Heald Conservative
December 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
February 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
January 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, 1922)/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[3] 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

Elections

Elections of the 2010s

General Election 2015: Stockport[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Coffey 19,771 49.9 +7.2
Conservative Daniel Hamilton 9,710 24.5 -0.8
UKIP Steven Woolfe 5,206 13.1 +10.9
Liberal Democrats Daniel Hawthorne 3,034 7.7 -17.3
Green Gary Lawson 1,753 4.4 +2.7
Left Unity John Pearson 175 0.4 N/A
Majority 10,061 25.4
Turnout 39,649 62.0
Labour hold Swing +4.0
General Election 2010: Stockport[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Coffey 16,697 42.7 −9.6
Conservative Stephen Holland 9,913 25.3 +1.8
Liberal Democrats Stuart Bodsworth 9,778 25.0 +3.6
BNP Duncan Warner 1,201 3.1 N/A
UKIP Michael N. Kelly 862 2.2 −0.5
Green Peter Barber 677 1.7 N/A
Majority 6,784 17.3
Turnout 39,128 61.6 +7.6
Labour hold Swing −5.7

Elections of the 2000s

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 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 of the 1990s

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 40.6
Turnout 46,769 71.5
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1992: Stockport[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Coffey 21,096 44.1 +8.8
Conservative Anthony Favell 19,674 41.2 −0.2
Liberal Democrats Mrs Anne C. Corris 6,539 13.7 −8.4
Green Miss Judith A. Filmore 436 0.9 −0.3
Natural Law David N. Saunders 50 0.1 N/A
Majority 1,422 3.0 −3.1
Turnout 47,795 82.3 +4.2
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +4.5

Elections of the 1980s

General Election 1987: Stockport
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Anthony Favell 19,410 41.4 −0.7
Labour Mrs. Shirley Haines 16,557 35.3 +6.3
SDP John Lovat Begg 10,365 22.1 −5.5
Green Michael John Shipley 573 1.2 +0.4
Majority 2,853 6.1
Turnout 46,332 78.1
Conservative hold Swing −3.5
General Election 1983: Stockport
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Anthony Favell 18,517 42.1 N/A
Labour Peter R. Ward 12,731 29.0 N/A
SDP Tom McNally 12,129 27.6 N/A
Ecology Michael John Shipley 369 0.8 N/A
Nationalist Party Kenneth S. Walker 194 0.4 N/A
Majority 5,786 13.2 N/A
Turnout 43,940 74.6 N/A
Conservative win (new seat)

Elections of the 1940s

General Election 1945: Stockport (2 member seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Arnold Babb Gridley 31,039 20.6 - 10.1
Conservative Norman John Hulbert 30,792 20.4 - 9.6
Labour A. Reginald Stamp 29,674 19.6 - 0.5
Labour Rowland William Casasola 28,798 19.6 + 0.4
Liberal H. Sutherland 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 of the 1930s

General Election 1935: Stockport (2 member seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Arnold Babb Gridley 43,882 30.7 - 6.3
Conservative Norman John Hulbert 43,001 30.0 - 4.7
Labour James Hindle Hudson 28,798 20.1 + 3.1
Labour Christopher Thomas 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 member seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Samuel Schofield Hammersley 50,936 37.0 + 11.3
Conservative Alan Vincent Gandar Dower 47,757 34.7 + 15.2
Labour Arnold Ernest Townend 23,350 17.0 - 10.4
Ind. Labour Party John Thomas 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 of the 1920s

General Election 1929: Stockport (2 member seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arnold Ernest Townend 30,955 27.4 n/a
Unionist Samuel Schofield Hammersley 29,043 25.7 n/a
Liberal Henry Fildes 22,595 20.0 n/a
Unionist Edwin Noel Lingen-Barker 22,047 19.5 n/a
Independent Liberal Charles Royle 8,355 7.4 n/a
Majority 6,448 5.7 n/a
Turnout 84.6 -1.1
Labour gain from Unionist Swing n/a
Unionist hold Swing n/a
Stockport by-election, 1925
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arnold Ernest Townend 20,219 36.5 n/a
Unionist Thomas Eastham 17,892 32.3 n/a
Liberal Henry Fildes 17,296 31.2 n/a
Majority 2,327 4.2 n/a
Turnout 55,407 85.7 −0.2
Labour gain from Unionist Swing n/a
General Election 1924: Stockport (2 member seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist William Greenwood 28,057 31.6 +9.2
Unionist Samuel Schofield Hammersley 26,417 29.7 +9.7
Labour Arnold Ernest Townend 21,986 24.8 +6.8
Liberal Charles Royle 12,386 13.9 -7.3
Majority 4,431 4.9
Turnout 88,846 85.9 +4.2
Unionist hold Swing
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing
General Election 1923: Stockport (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist William Greenwood 20,308 22.4 -10.7
Liberal Charles Royle 19,223 21.2 n/a
Unionist Samuel Schofield Hammersley 18,129 20.0 n/a
Liberal Henry Fildes 16,756 18.4 -16.0
Labour Arnold Ernest Townend 16,340 18.0 +2.2
Majority 3,552 4.0
Majority 1,094 1.2
Turnout 71.7 -9.5
Unionist hold Swing
Liberal hold Swing
Henry Fildes
General Election 1922: Stockport (2 member seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal Henry Fildes 35,241 34.4 +9.3
Unionist William Greenwood 33,852 33.1 +7.4
Co-operative Party Samuel Frederick Perry 17,059 16.7 +0.5
Labour James C.H. Robinson 16,126 15.8 -2.2
Majority 18,182 17.7
Majority 16,793 16.4
Turnout 83.4 +7.7
National Liberal hold Swing
Unionist hold Swing
Stockport by-election, 1920 (2 member seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist William Greenwood 22,847 25.7 n/a
National Liberal Henry Fildes 22,386 25.1 n/a
Labour Sir Leo George Chiozza Money 16,042 18.0 n/a
Co-operative Party Samuel Frederick Perry 14,434 16.2 n/a
Independent Albert Alfred George Kindell 5,644 6.3 n/a
Independent John Joseph Terrett 5,443 6.1 n/a
Ind. Republican William X. O'Brien 2,336 2.6 n/a
Majority 6,805 7.7 n/a
Majority 6,344 7.1 n/a
Turnout 75.7 n/a
Unionist gain from Coalition Labour Swing n/a
National Liberal hold Swing n/a

Elections of the 1910s

S.L. Hughes
General Election 1918: Stockport (2 member seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal Spencer Leigh Hughes unopposed n/a n/a
Coalition Labour George Wardle unopposed n/a n/a
National Liberal hold Swing
Coalition Labour hold Swing

Hughes was endorsed by the Coalition Government. The Coalition had a policy of not publicly endorsing Labour Party candidates but Wardle was a known supporter of the Coalition.

Elections in the 1910s

George Wardle
General Election December 1910 Stockport [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Spencer Leigh Hughes 6,169
Labour George James Wardle 6,094
Conservative John Rolleston Lort-Williams 5,234
Conservative Robert Campbell 5,183
Majority
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
Liberal hold Swing
General Election January 1910 Stockport [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George James Wardle 6,682 28.0
Liberal Spencer Leigh Hughes 6,645 27.9
Conservative George Edward Raine 5,268 22.1
Conservative James Stuart Rankin 5,249
Majority
Turnout 94.2
Labour hold Swing
Liberal hold Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1906 Stockport [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George James Wardle 7,299 32.4
Liberal James Duckworth 6,544 29.1
Conservative Harry Barnston 4,591 20.4
Conservative Hon. Robert William Hugh O'Neill 4,064 18.1
Turnout 93.1
Majority 2,708 12.0
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Majority 1,953 8.7
Liberal hold Swing
General Election 1900 Stockport [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sir Joseph Leigh 5,666 26.5 +1.8
Conservative Beresford Valentine Melville 5,377 25.2 -0.2
Liberal George Green 5,200 24.4 +1.6
Conservative Alfred Peter Hillier 5,098 23.9 -3.2
Turnout 87.6 -3.8
Majority 568 2.6
Majority 177 0.8
Conservative hold Swing
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
References
  1. ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on November 6, 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
  3. ^ a b c Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)
  4. ^ "Stockport". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  5. ^ Stockport UKPOLLING
  6. ^ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
  7. ^ a b c d British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)

Sources

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