Stockport North (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Stockport North Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1950 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Stockport North was a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1983.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency was an urban one, located in the County of Cheshire and comprising wards of the County Borough of Stockport. In 1950 it was defined as the following wards:
- Edgeley
- Heaton Lane
- Heaton Norris North
- Heaton Norris South
- Hollywood
- Lancashire Hill
- Old Road
- Reddish North
- Reddish South
All these wards had previously been part of the two-member constituency of Stockport.
A minor change in boundaries was made at the February 1974 election, because of changes in ward boundaries which had taken effect in 1971. The constituency was defined as the following wards:
- Cheadle Heath
- Edgeley
- Heaton Chapel
- Heaton Mersey
- Heaton Moor
- Heaton Norris
- Lancashire Hill
- Longford
- Reddish Green
The constituency was abolished at the 1983 general election, with 60% of the electorate going to the new single-member Stockport constituency, and 40% going to form the new Denton and Reddish constituency.
[edit] Members of Parliament
Always a fairly marginal seat, the constituency changed hands at the 1964, 1970 and February 1974 general elections.
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1950 | Sir Norman Hulbert | Conservative | |
| 1964 | Arnold Gregory | Labour | |
| 1970 | Idris Owen | Conservative | |
| 1974 | Andrew Bennett | Labour | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished: see Stockport and Denton & Reddish | ||
[edit] Election results
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[edit] References
- Times Guides to the House of Commons
