Manchester Moss Side (UK Parliament constituency)
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Manchester Moss Side | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1918–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Manchester Moss Side was a parliamentary constituency in the Moss Side area of the city of Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1983 general election.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Maj. Gerald Berkeley Hurst | 10,621 | 65.0 | N/A | |
Liberal | Tom Stott | 5,708 | 35.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,913 | 30.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 16,329 | N/A | |||
Unionist win (new seat) |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Gerald Berkeley Hurst | 11,932 | 51.2 | −13.8 | |
Liberal | Thomas Raven Ackroyd | 6,743 | 28.9 | −6.1 | |
Labour | Thomas William Mercer | 4,641 | 19.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,189 | 22.3 | |||
Turnout | 23,316 | 70.4 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Thomas Raven Ackroyd | 12,210 | 54.9 | +26.0 | |
Unionist | Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst | 9,097 | 40.9 | −10.3 | |
Independent | J.C.D. Bustard | 949 | 4.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,113 | 14.0 | |||
Turnout | 22,256 | ||||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +18.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Gerald Berkeley Hurst | 14,035 | 58.3 | +17.4 | |
Liberal | Thomas Raven Ackroyd | 10,026 | 41.7 | −13.2 | |
Majority | 4,009 | 16.7 | |||
Turnout | 24,061 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +15.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst | 11,625 | 39.6 | −18.7 | |
Labour | Albert Arthur Purcell | 9,522 | 32.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | Thomas Raven Ackroyd | 8,191 | 27.9 | −13.8 | |
Majority | 2,103 | 7.2 | -9.4 | ||
Turnout | 29,338 | 68.3 | -1.0 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst | 23,274 | 74.4 | +34.8 | |
Labour | A Enid Davies | 8,012 | 25.6 | −6.9 | |
Majority | 15,262 | 48.8 | |||
Turnout | 31,286 | 68.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +20.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Rostron Duckworth | 15,199 | 58.7 | −15.7 | |
Labour | Leslie Maurice Lever | 10,694 | 41.3 | +15.7 | |
Majority | 4,505 | 17.4 | |||
Turnout | 25,893 | 63.2 | −5.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −15.7 |
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;
- Conservative: William Duckworth
- Labour: William Griffiths
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William D. Griffiths | 10,201 | 49.5 | +8.2 | |
Conservative | William Rostron Duckworth | 7,423 | 36.0 | −22.7 | |
Liberal | Henry Donald Moore | 2,525 | 12.3 | N/A | |
Independent | A.R. Edwards | 446 | 2.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,778 | 13.5 | |||
Turnout | 20,595 | 59.4 | −3.8 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +15.5 |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Florence Gertrude Horsburgh | 25,347 | 56.7 | +20.7 | |
Labour | Roland Casasola | 16,769 | 37.5 | −12.0 | |
Liberal | Eric Percy Atkin | 2,607 | 5.8 | −6.5 | |
Majority | 8,578 | 19.2 | |||
Turnout | 44,723 | 78.7 | +19.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +16.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Florence Gertrude Horsburgh | 27,697 | 62.2 | +5.5 | |
Labour | Frank Julian Allaun | 16,819 | 37.8 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 10,878 | 24.4 | |||
Turnout | 44,516 | 77.6 | −1.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Florence Gertrude Horsburgh | 23,631 | 64.3 | +2.1 | |
Labour | Kenneth Marks | 13,103 | 35.7 | −2.1 | |
Majority | 8,042 | 19.5 | |||
Turnout | 36,734 | 69.1 | −8.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Watts | 22,090 | 62.3 | −2.0 | |
Labour | Norman Morris | 13,371 | 37.7 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 8,719 | 24.6 | |||
Turnout | 35,461 | 69.2 | +0.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.0 |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frank Henry Taylor | 9,533 | 41.1 | −21.2 | |
Liberal | Ruslyn Harold Hargreaves | 6,447 | 27.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Gordon James Oakes | 5,980 | 25.8 | −11.9 | |
Union Movement | Walter Hesketh | 1,212 | 5.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,228 | 12.9 | |||
Turnout | 23,172 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frank Henry Taylor | 14,875 | 45.3 | −17.0 | |
Labour | Peter W. Michelson | 10,647 | 32.4 | −5.3 | |
Liberal | Ruslyn H. Hargreaves | 7,297 | 22.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,228 | 12.9 | |||
Turnout | 32,819 | 65.5 | −4.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frank Henry Taylor | 13,436 | 45.4 | +0.1 | |
Labour | Rex Church | 12,353 | 41.8 | +9.4 | |
Liberal | David F. Prusmann | 3,801 | 12.9 | −9.3 | |
Majority | 1,083 | 3.7 | |||
Turnout | 29,590 | 65.4 | −0.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frank Henry Taylor | 15,546 | 52.9 | +7.5 | |
Labour | Frank Hatton | 13,833 | 47.1 | +5.3 | |
Majority | 1,713 | 5.8 | |||
Turnout | 29,379 | 64.4 | −1.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Note: This constituency underwent boundary changes after the 1970 election, so was notionally a Labour seat.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Frank Hatton | 14,715 | 41.8 | −8.5 | |
Conservative | Frank Henry Taylor | 12,323 | 35.0 | −14.7 | |
Liberal | William John Lawrence Wallace | 7,979 | 22.7 | N/A | |
Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) | Miss Ruth Pushkin | 206 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,392 | 6.8 | |||
Turnout | 35,223 | 69.1 | +4.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +11.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Frank Hatton | 15,212 | 47.1 | +5.3 | |
Conservative | John Robert Louis Lee | 11,101 | 34.3 | −0.7 | |
Liberal | William John Lawrence Wallace | 5,686 | 17.6 | −5.1 | |
Irish Civil Rights | Neil Boyle | 238 | 0.7 | N/A | |
More Prosperous Britain | Harold Smith | 96 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,111 | 12.7 | |||
Turnout | 32,333 | 62.9 | −6.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Martin Morton | 12,556 | 46.38 | −0.7 | |
Conservative | Thomas E. Murphy | 10,998 | 40.6 | +6.3 | |
Liberal | Peter Thomson | 2,502 | 9.2 | −8.4 | |
National Front | Herbert Andrew | 623 | 2.3 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Vanessa Redgrave | 394 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,558 | 5.8 | |||
Turnout | 27,073 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Martin Morton | 17,765 | 51.9 | +4.2 | |
Conservative | Thomas E. Murphy | 13,234 | 38.7 | +4.3 | |
Liberal | John Commons | 2,981 | 8.7 | −8.9 | |
Workers Revolutionary | Vanessa Redgrave | 225 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,531 | 13.3 | |||
Turnout | 34,205 | 71.5 | +8.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
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- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)[self-published source][better source needed]
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 Manchester (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1918
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983