Morecambe and Lonsdale | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1950–1983 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Lancaster and Lonsdale |
Replaced by | Morecambe & Lunesdale, Westmorland & Lonsdale and Barrow & Furness [1] |
Morecambe and Lonsdale was a constituency of the British House of Commons which existed until 1983.
Following the reorganisation of local government in England in the 1970s, a successor constituency called Morecambe and Lunesdale was formed. This followed the formation of Cumbria as a county council.
Before 1950, Morecambe was in the Lancaster constituency.
In the 1950s, the seat of Morecambe and Lonsdale incorporated Morecambe, Heysham, Carnforth, and the communities with Ulverston Rural District, which included Grange-over-Sands, Ulverston, Pennington, Satterthwaite, Hawkshead and Coniston [2]
Election | Member [3] | Party | |
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1950 | constituency created as "Morecambe and Lonsdale" | ||
1950 | Ian Fraser | Conservative | |
1958 by-election | Basil de Ferranti | Conservative | |
1964 | Alfred Hall-Davis | Conservative | |
1979 | Mark Lennox-Boyd | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency renamed as "Morecambe and Lunesdale" after boundary changes |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ian Fraser | 28,041 | 60.3 | ||
Labour | Albert Gaskell | 12,768 | 27.4 | ||
Liberal | Gerard de Pfyffer Leeming | 5,723 | 12.3 | ||
Majority | 15,273 | 32.9 | |||
Turnout | 46,532 | 84.5 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ian Fraser | 31,211 | 69.5 | +9.2 | |
Labour | Ernest Gardner | 13,732 | 30.5 | +3.1 | |
Majority | 17,479 | 39.0 | +6.1 | ||
Turnout | 44,943 | 80.4 | -4.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ian Fraser | 29,706 | 71.2 | +1.7 | |
Labour | Wilfred Fielding | 12,005 | 28.8 | -1.7 | |
Majority | 17,701 | 42.4 | +3.5 | ||
Turnout | 41,711 | 74.5 | -5.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Basil de Ferranti | 23,923 | 65.3 | -5.9 | |
Labour | Frank R McManus | 12,692 | 34.7 | +5.9 | |
Majority | 11,231 | 30.6 | -11.8 | ||
Turnout | 36,615 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Basil de Ferranti | 30,228 | 70.0 | +4.7 | |
Labour | Frank R McManus | 14,523 | 32.0 | -2.7 | |
Majority | 15,975 | 36.0 | +5.4 | ||
Turnout | 44,751 | 77.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Hall-Davis | 24,756 | 53.86 | ||
Labour | Frank R McManus | 12,392 | 26.96 | ||
Independent Liberal | James Rafton Smallwood | 8,818 | 19.18 | New | |
Majority | 12,364 | 26.90 | |||
Turnout | 45,966 | 77.09 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Hall-Davis | 24,138 | 51.91 | ||
Labour | Ivan Limmer | 13,838 | 29.76 | ||
Liberal | David M Clark | 8,526 | 18.33 | New | |
Majority | 10,300 | 22.15 | |||
Turnout | 37,976 | 76.53 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Hall-Davis | 27,442 | 56.99 | ||
Labour | Eric Garbutt | 13,916 | 28.90 | ||
Liberal | Anthony W Drury | 6,792 | 14.11 | ||
Majority | 13,526 | 28.09 | |||
Turnout | 48,150 | 72.55 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alfred Hall-Davis | 27,704 | 51.85 | ||
Liberal | Bernard North Wates | 12,948 | 24.23 | ||
Labour | Terry Cannon | 12,782 | 23.92 | ||
Majority | 14,756 | 27.62 | |||
Turnout | 53,434 | 78.56 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alfred Hall-Davis | 24,877 | 49.84 | ||
Labour | Eric Garbutt | 12,633 | 25.31 | ||
Liberal | AT Stuttard | 12,404 | 24.85 | ||
Majority | 12,244 | 24.53 | |||
Turnout | 49,914 | 72.90 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Mark Lennox-Boyd | 29,068 | 55.40 | ||
Labour | G Collier | 13,253 | 25.26 | ||
Liberal | HR Tinker | 10,150 | 19.34 | ||
Majority | 15,815 | 30.14 | |||
Turnout | 52,471 | 76.46 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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