Bury (UK Parliament constituency)
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Bury | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) |
Major settlements | Bury |
1832–1950 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Bury & Radcliffe |
Created from | Lancashire |
Bury was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bury in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1832 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Bury & Radcliffe.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | George Toulmin | 4,213 | 52.6 | ||
Conservative | Harry Lawson | 3,799 | 47.4 | ||
Majority | 414 | 5.4 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +9.0 |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Charles Ainsworth | 10,680 | 40.3 | -0.9 | |
Labour | Harry Wright Wallace | 9,568 | 36.1 | -0.6 | |
Liberal | James Duckworth | 6,251 | 23.6 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 1,112 | 4.2 | -0.3 | ||
Turnout | 80.8 | -0.5 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -0.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Charles Ainsworth | 14,845 | 42.2 | ||
Labour | James Bell | 13,175 | 37.4 | ||
Liberal | Clifford Stanley Ickringil | 7,160 | 20.4 | ||
Majority | 1,670 | 4.8 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1939/40 Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
- Labour: William Harvey Moore[7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Walter Fletcher | 14,012 | 39.9 | ||
Labour | Sydney Hand | 13,902 | 39.6 | ||
Liberal | Arthur Walter James | 7,211 | 20.5 | ||
Majority | 110 | 0.3 | |||
Turnout | 78.2 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ The Constitiutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 165 (189 in web page)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ Manchester Evening News 4 Apr 1939
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
Categories:
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1832
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1950
- Politics of Bury Borough