Sowerby (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 53°42′18″N 1°56′13″W / 53.705°N 1.937°W
Sowerby | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Riding of Yorkshire |
1885–1983 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Calder Valley and Halifax[1] |
Created from | Northern West Riding of Yorkshire |
Sowerby /ˌsɔːrbi/ was a county constituency centred on the village of Sowerby in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
History
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Calder Valley constituency.
Boundaries
Up until its abolition, Sowerby covered the West Yorkshire parishes of Heptonstall, Blackshaw, Wadsworth, Todmorden, Erringden, Hebden Royd, Sowerby Bridge, Ripponden and Elland.[2]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | Edward Crossley | Liberal | |
1892 | John William Mellor | Liberal | |
1904 by-election | John Sharp Higham | Liberal | |
1918 | Robert Hewitt Barker | Independent NADSS | |
1922 | William Algernon Simpson-Hinchliffe | Conservative | |
1923 | Arnold Williams | Liberal | |
1924 | Geoffrey Reginald Devereux Shaw | Unionist | |
1929 | William John Tout | Labour | |
1931 | Malcolm McCorquodale | Unionist | |
1945 | John Belcher | Labour | |
1949 by-election | Douglas Houghton | Labour | |
Feb 1974 | Max Madden | Labour | |
1979 | Donald Thompson | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Calder Valley |
Elections
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Elections in the 1970s
General Election 1979: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Donald Thompson | 16,797 | 42.2 | ||
Labour | Max Madden | 15,617 | 39.3 | ||
Liberal | David Trevor Shutt | 7,369 | 18.5 | ||
Majority | 1,180 | 3.0 | |||
Turnout | 80.7 | ||||
General Election October 1974: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Max Madden | 14,971 | 38.8 | ||
Conservative | Donald Thompson | 14,325 | 37.1 | ||
Liberal | David Trevor Shutt | 9,136 | 23.7 | ||
More Prosperous Britain | Harold Smith | 157 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 646 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 80.7 | ||||
General Election February 1974: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Max Madden | 14,492 | 36.1 | ||
Conservative | Donald Thompson | 14,377 | 35.8 | ||
Liberal | David Trevor Shutt | 11,254 | 28.1 | ||
Majority | 115 | 0.3 | |||
Turnout | 83.0 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1970: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Douglas Houghton | 16,583 | 43.8 | ||
Conservative | W Burman | 16,114 | 42.6 | ||
Liberal | David Trevor Shutt | 5,137 | 13.6 | ||
Majority | 469 | 1.2 | |||
Turnout | 75.6 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
General Election 1966: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Douglas Houghton | 21,591 | 56.9 | ||
Conservative | W Burman | 16,361 | 43.1 | ||
Majority | 5,230 | 13.8 | |||
Turnout | 77.7 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1964: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Douglas Houghton | 21,582 | 54.2 | ||
Conservative | R McKim | 18,220 | 45.8 | ||
Majority | 3,362 | 8.5 | |||
Turnout | 79.5 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
General Election 1959: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Douglas Houghton | 18,949 | 43.5 | ||
Conservative | R McKim | 16,993 | 39.0 | ||
Liberal | John G Walker | 7,654 | 17.6 | ||
Majority | 1,956 | 4.5 | |||
Turnout | 83.0 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1955: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Douglas Houghton | 20,092 | 45.2 | ||
Conservative | Betty Harvie Anderson | 17,309 | 38.9 | ||
Liberal | John G Walker | 7,046 | 15.9 | ||
Majority | 2,783 | 6.3 | |||
Turnout | 81.4 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1951: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Douglas Houghton | 22,766 | 46.1 | ||
Conservative | Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan | 21,118 | 42.7 | ||
Liberal | John G Walker | 5,573 | 11.3 | ||
Majority | 1,648 | 3.3 | |||
Turnout | 86.9 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1950: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Douglas Houghton | 22,846 | 45.4 | ||
Conservative | Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan | 19,181 | 38.1 | ||
Liberal | Adrian Liddell Hart | 8,306 | 16.5 | ||
Majority | 3,665 | 7.3 | |||
Turnout | 88.3 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1940s
Sowerby by-election, 1949 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Douglas Houghton | 18,606 | |||
Conservative | Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan | 16,454 | |||
Majority | 2,152 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1945: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | John Belcher | 17,710 | 50.8 | ||
Conservative | Malcolm McCorquodale | 10,777 | 30.9 | ||
Liberal | Douglas Eugene Moore | 6,373 | 18.3 | ||
Majority | 6,933 | 19.9 | |||
Turnout | 82.0 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
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: Malcolm McCorquodale, Labour: Cyril Hackett Wilkinson.
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1935
Electorate 45,803 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Malcolm McCorquodale | 18,707 | 53.9 | ||
Labour | William John Tout | 16,035 | 46.2 | ||
Majority | 2,672 | 7.7 | |||
Turnout | 75.9 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1931
Electorate 46,104 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale | 25,511 | |||
Labour | William John Tout | 11,857 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1920s
General Election 1929: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | William John Tout | 14,223 | 37.2 | +7.1 | |
Unionist | William Arthur Colegate | 12,057 | 31.6 | -6.2 | |
Liberal | Thomas George Graham | 11,890 | 31.2 | -0.9 | |
Majority | 2,166 | 5.6 | 11.3 | ||
Turnout | 83.4 | +0.2 | |||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +6.6 | |||
General Election 1924: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Geoffrey Reginald Devereux Shaw | 11,181 | 37.8 | +3.2 | |
Liberal | Arnold Williams | 9,480 | 32.1 | -7.5 | |
Labour | Arthur Dawson | 8,881 | 30.1 | +4.3 | |
Majority | 1,701 | 5.7 | |||
Turnout | 83.2 | +2.2 | |||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +5.3 | |||
General Election 1923: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Arnold Williams | 11,350 | 39.6 | +11.9 | |
Unionist | William Algernon Simpson-Hinchliffe | 9,932 | 34.6 | -5.3 | |
Labour | Arthur Dawson | 7,389 | 25.8 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 1,418 | 5.0 | |||
Turnout | 81.0 | -2.9 | |||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +8.6 | |||
General Election 1922: Sowerby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | William Algernon Simpson-Hinchliffe | 11,710 | 39.9 | +2.9 | |
Liberal | Arnold Williams | 8,144 | 27.7 | -2.6 | |
Labour | John William Ogden | 7,496 | 25.5 | -7.2 | |
National Liberal | Frank Roebuck | 2,023 | 6.9 | n/a | |
Majority | 3,566 | 12.2 | |||
Turnout | 83.9 | +18.7 | |||
Unionist gain from Independent | Swing | +2.7 | |||
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1918
Electorate 34,286 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
NADSS | Robert Hewitt Barker | 8,287 | 37.0 | +37.0 | |
Labour | John William Ogden | 7,306 | 32.7 | +32.7 | |
Liberal | John Sharp Higham | 6,778 | 30.2 | -28.6 | |
Majority | 981 | 4.3 | |||
Turnout | 65.2 | -25.3 | |||
Independent gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
General Election December 1910
Electorate | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | John Sharp Higham | unopposed | n/a | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
General Election January 1910
Electorate 12,805 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | John Sharp Higham | 6,811 | 58.8 | -2.8 | |
Conservative | William Algernon Simpson-Hinchliffe | 4,781 | 41.2 | +2.8 | |
Majority | 2,030 | 17.6 | -5.6 | ||
Turnout | 90.5 | +6.3 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | -2.8 | |||
Elections in the 1900s
General Election 1906
Electorate 12,492 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | John Sharp Higham | 6,482 | 61.6 | +0.7 | |
Conservative | William Algernon Simpson-Hinchliffe | 4,034 | 38.4 | -0.7 | |
Majority | 2,448 | 23.2 | |||
Turnout | 84.2 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.7 | |||
Sowerby by-election, 1904
Electorate 12,311 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | John Sharp Higham | 6,049 | 60.9 | ||
Conservative | William Algernon Simpson-Hinchliffe | 3,877 | 39.1 | ||
Majority | 2,172 | 21.8 | |||
Turnout | 80.6 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
References
- ↑ "'Sowerby', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Ordnance Survey Map 1954 Vision of Britain
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.