Manchester Openshaw (UK Parliament constituency)

Manchester Openshaw
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1955–1983
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Manchester Central and Oldham West[1]

Manchester Openshaw was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Openshaw district of Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1955 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1955	W. R. Williams	Labour
	1963 by-election	Charles Morris	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

Election results

Election results in the 1950s

General Election 1955: Manchester Openshaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Richard Williams	24,638	59.7
	Conservative	H Day	16,596	40.3
Majority			8,042	19.5
Turnout				72.7

General Election 1959: Manchester Openshaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Richard Williams	24,975	60.2
	Conservative	MB Schofield	16,537	39.8
Majority			8,438	20.3
Turnout				76.0

Elections in the 1960s

Manchester Openshaw by-election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Morris	16,101	66
	Conservative	Gerald Fitzsimmons	7,139	29
	Communist	Edwin Marsden	1,185	4
Majority			8,962

General Election 1964: Manchester Openshaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Morris	22,589	59.6
	Conservative	Gerald WG Fitzsimmons	13,387	35.3
	Communist	Edwin Marsden	1,947	5.1
Majority			9,202	24.3
Turnout				71.3

General Election 1966: Manchester Openshaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Morris	22,103	64.9
	Conservative	RJ Chronnell	10,465	30.7
	Communist	Edwin Marsden	1,479	4.3
Majority			11,638	34.2
Turnout				65.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Manchester Openshaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Morris	19,397	60.2
	Conservative	BM Allanson	12,296	38.1
	Communist	Bernard Panter	552	1.7
Majority			7,101	22.0
Turnout				63.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Manchester Openshaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Morris	16,478	53.5
	Conservative	Aubrey Rosen	9,021	29.3
	Liberal	Arthur Wood	4,467	14.5
	National Front	John Hulse	541	1.8
	Communist	Phillip Widdall	312	1.0
Majority			7,457	24.2
Turnout				73.0
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Manchester Openshaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Morris	16,109	57.6	+4.1
	Conservative	Geoffrey Green	7,596	27.1	−2.2
	Liberal	Arthur Wood	3,980	14.2	−0.3
	Communist	Phillip Widdall	300	1.1	+0.1
Majority			8,513	30.4
Turnout				65.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Manchester Openshaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Morris	17,099	62.1	+4.5
	Conservative	Peter Hilton	9,955	36.2	+9.1
	National Front	Alfred Coles	296	1.1	N/A
	Communist	Phillip Widdall	174	0.6	−0.5
Majority			7,144	26.0
Turnout			27,524	72.8
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. "'Manchester Openshaw', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 23 March 2016.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "O"