Cleveland and Whitby | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
February 1974–1983 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Cleveland, Scarborough & Whitby |
Replaced by | Langbaurgh, Scarborough |
Cleveland and Whitby was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Whitby in northern England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from February 1974 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
Cleveland and Whitby largely replaced the previous Cleveland constituency. It was defined as covering the urban districts of Guisborough, Loftus, Saltburn and Marske by the Sea, Skelton and Brotton, Whitby, along with Whitby Rural District.
Election | Member [1] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Leon Brittan | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished | ||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Leon Brittan | 26,735 | 51.00 | ||
Labour | Ben Pimlott | 19,818 | 36.80 | ||
Liberal | Michael Ford Pitts | 5,870 | 11.20 | ||
Majority | 6,917 | 13.20 | |||
Turnout | 52,423 | 80.05 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Leon Brittan | 19,973 | 43.22 | ||
Labour | Ben Pimlott | 18,445 | 39.91 | ||
Liberal | GG Watson | 7,795 | 16.87 | ||
Majority | 1,528 | 3.33 | |||
Turnout | 46,203 | 76.17 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Leon Brittan | 21,090 | 42.55 | ||
Labour | JB Hewitson | 17,448 | 35.20 | ||
Liberal | GG Watson | 11,030 | 22.25 | ||
Majority | 3,642 | 7.35 | |||
Turnout | 49,568 | 82.38 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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