Heywood and Radcliffe was a county constituency centred on the towns of Heywood and Radcliffe in South Lancashire. 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.
History Under the Representation of the People Act 1918, the constituency was created by merging the Heywood constituency and part of the Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth constituency for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the 1950 general election.
Members of Parliament ElectionMemberParty 1918 Albert Illingworth Coalition Liberal 1921 by-election Walter Halls Labour 1922Abraham England National Liberal Nov 1923 Liberal Sep 1931 Liberal National Oct 1931 Joseph Jackson Conservative 1935 Richard Porritt Conservative 1940 by-election James Wootton-Davies Conservative 1945 John Whittaker Labour 1946 by-election Tony Greenwood Labour 1950 constituency abolished: see Heywood and Royton & Bury and Radcliffe
Elections Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
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 and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; Conservative: Labour: A GaskellManchester Evening News, 4 Jun 1940
Elections in the 1940s
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