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Huyton
Huyton
Former county constituency; for the House of Commons
1950–1983
Seats	one
Created from	Widnes (north part of)
Replaced by	Knowsley South, Knowsley North, St Helens South and St Helens North

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Huyton was a UK constituency. Created in 1950, it was centred on Huyton in Lancashire (later Merseyside), North West England, just beyond the borders of the city of Liverpool. Its only MP was frontbench Labour politician Harold Wilson who while representing the seat becoming party leader in 1963 and Prime Minister from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976.

The constituency was dissolved under 1983 boundary changes — largely replaced by Knowsley South. This coincided with Wilson's retirement from parliament.^[2]

Opposition parties

The Liberals ran a candidate in the constituency on its creation in 1950 but did not run one again until 24 years later in 1974, by which time Wilson had become Leader of the Labour Party and served two terms as Prime Minister. The party finished in third place in all the elections it contested in this seat. Wilson achieved an absolute majority save in the first two elections, the runner up party always a Conservative party candidate, polled best in 1951 — 48.7% of the vote.

Political forebears

The Widnes seat was in the early 20th century century a marginal seat, in the immediately preceding elections to 1950 won by the two largest parties, alternating.

Urbanisation

The seat was more suburban at a time of relatively low employment in the sub-region in the 1950s. Council housing and private sector construction of relatively smaller homes by the 1980s complimented the overwhelmingly semi-detached housing stock, downgrading the local housing stock during the seat's existence while solving the problem of chronic housing shortages in the city itself; a time when Merseyside expanded by a programme of home building and motorway building within the confines of Huyton and its suburbs moved further out particularly to the Wirral and other areas on the fringe of the new metropolitan county. The M57 was completed bisecting the area in 1974, so also the M62.^[3]^[4]

Election expenses and type of returning officer

The seat was classified as a higher-level expenses and returning officer county constituency rather than a borough constituency.

Boundaries

1950-1974: The Urban Districts of Huyton-with-Roby and Prescot, and in the Rural District of Whiston the civil parishes of Eccleston, Kirkby, Knowsley, and Windle.

1974-1983: As above less Kirkby.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1950	Harold Wilson	Labour
	1983	Constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Huyton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. James Harold Wilson	21,536	48.4	N/A
	Conservative	Sydney Smart	20,702	46.5	N/A
	Liberal	H Griffith Edwards	1,905	4.3	N/A
	Communist	Leo Joseph McGree	387	0.9	N/A
Majority			834	1.9	N/A
Turnout			44,530	85.0	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

General Election 1951: Huyton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. James Harold Wilson	23,582	51.3	+2.9
	Conservative	Francis Leslie Neep	22,389	48.7	+2.2
Majority			1,193	2.6	+0.7
Turnout			45,971	84.8
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Huyton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. James Harold Wilson	24,858	52.7	+1.4
	Conservative	William Geraint Oliver Morgan	22,300	47.3	−1.4
Majority			2,558	5.4
Turnout			47,158	78.5
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Huyton^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. James Harold Wilson	33,111	54.9	+2.2
	Conservative	George Bentley Woolfenden	27,184	45.1	−2.2
Majority			5,927	9.8
Turnout			60,295	77.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.2

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Huyton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. James Harold Wilson	42,213	63.9	+9.0
	Conservative	Harold Tucker	22,940	34.7	−10.4
	Communist Anti-Revisionist	Michael Claude Watkins Baker	899	1.4	N/A
Majority			19,273	29.2
Turnout			66,052	76.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+9.7

General Election 1966: Huyton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. James Harold Wilson	41,122	66.4	+2.5
	Conservative	Thomas Lyrian Hobday	20,182	32.6	−2.1
	National Teenage Party	David Edward Sutch	585	0.9	N/A
Majority			20,940	33.8	+4.6
Turnout			61,889	70.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.3

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Huyton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. James Harold Wilson	45,583	63.1	−3.3
	Conservative	John Nicholas McAlpine Entwistle	24,509	33.9	+1.3
	Democratic	John Walter Gerald Sparrow	1,232	1.7	N/A
	Communist	Joseph Ivor Kenny	890	1.2	N/A
Majority			21,074	29.1	−4.7
Turnout			72,214	70.1
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.4

General Election February 1974: Huyton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Rt Hon. James Harold Wilson	31,767	56.7
	Conservative	Thomas Yates Benyon	16,462	29.4
	Liberal	N Snowden	7,584	13.5
	More Prosperous Britain	Harold Smith	234	0.4
Majority			15,305	27.3
Turnout			56,047	77.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Huyton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. James Harold Wilson	31,750	60.8	+4.1
	Conservative	William Peters	15,517	29.7	+0.3
	Liberal	Michael Paul Braham	4,956	9.5	−4.0
Majority			16,233	31.0
Turnout			52,223	71.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.9

General Election 1979: Huyton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. James Harold Wilson	27,449	51.9	−8.9
	Conservative	Garnet Harrison	19,939	37.7	+8.0
	Liberal	P Cottier	5,476	10.4	+0.9
Majority			7,510	14.2
Turnout			52,864	72.4
	Labour hold		Swing	−8.5

References

^ "'Huyton', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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^ The Motorway Archive – M57 Dates Page Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
^ "M62: Queens Drive to Eccles". The Motorway Archive. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
^ [2]

Sources

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Belper	Constituency represented by the Leader of the Opposition 1963–1964	Succeeded by Kinross and Perthshire West
Preceded by Kinross and Perthshire West	Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1964–1970	Succeeded by Bexley
Preceded by Bexley	Constituency represented by the Leader of the Opposition 1970–1974	Succeeded by Sidcup
Preceded by Sidcup	Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1974–1976	Succeeded by Cardiff South East

[ElectionWeb74-1] "'Huyton', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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[3] The Motorway Archive – M57 Dates Page Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine

[themotorwayarchive3-4] "M62: Queens Drive to Eccles". The Motorway Archive. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2007.

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 '''Huyton''' was a [[United Kingdom|UK]] constituency.  Created in 1950, it was centred on [[Huyton]] in [[Lancashire]] (later [[Merseyside]]), [[North West England]], just beyond the borders of the city of [[Liverpool]]. Its only [[Member of Parliament|MP]] was frontbench [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] politician [[Harold Wilson]] who while representing the seat becoming party leader in 1963 and Prime Minister from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976.
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 ==Urbanisation==
-The seat was more suburban at a time of relatively low employment in the sub-region in the 1950s.  Council housing and private sector construction of relatively smaller homes by the 1980s complimented the overwhelmingly semi-detached housing stock, downgrading the local housing stock during the seat's existence while solving the problem of chronic housing shortages in the city itself; a time when [[Merseyside]] expanded by a programme of home building and motorway building within the confines of Huyton and its suburbs moved further out particularly to the [[Wirral (UK Parliament constituency)|Wirral]] and other areas on the fringe of the new metropolitan county. The M57 was completed bisecting the area in 1974, so also the M62.<ref>[http://www.iht.org/motorway/m57lostat.htm The Motorway Archive – M57 Dates Page]</ref><ref name="themotorwayarchive3">{{cite web|url=http://www.iht.org/motorway/m62queeccles.htm|title=M62: Queens Drive to Eccles|publisher=The Motorway Archive|accessdate=19 May 2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114230605/http://www.iht.org/motorway/m62queeccles.htm|archivedate=14 January 2009}}</ref>
+The seat was more suburban at a time of relatively low employment in the sub-region in the 1950s.  Council housing and private sector construction of relatively smaller homes by the 1980s complimented the overwhelmingly semi-detached housing stock, downgrading the local housing stock during the seat's existence while solving the problem of chronic housing shortages in the city itself; a time when [[Merseyside]] expanded by a programme of home building and motorway building within the confines of Huyton and its suburbs moved further out particularly to the [[Wirral (UK Parliament constituency)|Wirral]] and other areas on the fringe of the new metropolitan county. The M57 was completed bisecting the area in 1974, so also the M62.<ref>[http://www.iht.org/motorway/m57lostat.htm The Motorway Archive – M57 Dates Page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311050441/http://www.iht.org/motorway/m57lostat.htm |date=2007-03-11 }}</ref><ref name="themotorwayarchive3">{{cite web|url=http://www.iht.org/motorway/m62queeccles.htm|title=M62: Queens Drive to Eccles|publisher=The Motorway Archive|accessdate=19 May 2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114230605/http://www.iht.org/motorway/m62queeccles.htm|archivedate=14 January 2009}}</ref>
 ==Election expenses and type of returning officer==