Davyhulme (UK Parliament constituency)
Appearance
Davyhulme | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater Manchester |
1983–1997 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Altrincham and Sale, Stretford and Knutsford[1] |
Replaced by | Stretford and Urmston, Altrincham and Sale West and Wythenshawe and Sale East[1] |
Davyhulme was a parliamentary constituency in the Davyhulme suburb of Greater Manchester. 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.
Its territory was then mostly incorporated into the new Stretford and Urmston constituency.
History
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Boundaries
The Metropolitan Borough of Trafford wards of Bucklow, Davyhulme East, Davyhulme West, Flixton, Mersey St Mary's, Priory, St Martin's, and Urmston.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1983 | Winston Spencer Churchill | Conservative |
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1997 | constituency abolished: see Stretford and Urmston, Altrincham and Sale West & Wythenshawe and Sale East |
Elections
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Winston Churchill | 24,216 | 48.0 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Barry Brotherton | 19,790 | 39.2 | +8.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jacqueline Pearcey | 5,797 | 11.5 | −11.5 | |
Natural Law | Terence L. Brotheridge | 665 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,426 | 8.8 | −7.4 | ||
Turnout | 50,468 | 80.5 | +3.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −3.7 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Winston Churchill | 23,633 | 46.6 | +0.6 | |
Labour | John Nicholson | 15,434 | 30.4 | +3.6 | |
Liberal | Dennis Wrigley | 11,637 | 23.0 | −4.2 | |
Majority | 8,199 | 16.17 | |||
Turnout | 50,704 | 77.3 | +3.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Winston Churchill | 22,055 | 46.0 | N/A | |
Liberal | Dennis Wrigley | 13,041 | 27.2 | N/A | |
Labour | Sean Rogers | 12,887 | 26.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,014 | 18.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,983 | 73.9 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Notes and references
- ^ a b "'Davyhulme', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
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- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
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- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
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