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Dewsbury (UK Parliament constituency)

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Dewsbury
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
2010–2024 boundary of Dewsbury in West Yorkshire
Outline map
Location of West Yorkshire within England
CountyWest Yorkshire
Electorate81,912 (December 2019)[1]
Major settlementsDewsbury, Mirfield, Kirkburton, Denby Dale
1868–2024
SeatsOne
Created fromNorthern West Riding of Yorkshire
Replaced by

Dewsbury was a constituency[n 1] created in 1868 and abolished in 2024.[n 2]

After 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished and replaced by the newly created Dewsbury and Batley constituency (with major boundary changes).[2]

History

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Summary of results

Dewsbury's seat dates back to 1868 and the electorate has usually given the winning MP marginal majorities which means it is a marginal seat. Labour MPs served the seat from 1935 until 1983 and again from 1987. In 2010 it was gained by Simon Reevell, a Conservative.

Other parties results

One of the five other parties' candidates standing in 2015 kept their deposit, by winning more than 5% of the vote in 2015, UKIP's Thackray, who emulated the national swing of +9.5% by an entry candidature, polling 12.4% of the vote.

Turnout

Turnout since 1918 has ranged between 87.9% of the vote in 1950, to 58.8% in 2001.

Boundaries

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Map
Map of boundaries 2010-2024

1868–1885: The townships of Dewsbury, Batley, and Soothill.[3]

1918–1950: The County Borough of Dewsbury.

1950–1955: The County Borough of Dewsbury, the Municipal Borough of Ossett, and the Urban Districts of Heckmondwike and Mirfield.

1955–1983: The County Borough of Dewsbury, the Municipal Borough of Ossett, and the Urban District of Mirfield.

1983–1997: The Borough of Kirklees wards of Denby Dale, Dewsbury East, Dewsbury West, Kirkburton, Mirfield, and Thornhill.

1997–2010: The Borough of Kirklees wards of Dewsbury East, Dewsbury West, Heckmondwike, Mirfield, and Thornhill.

2010–2024: The Borough of Kirklees wards of Denby Dale, Dewsbury East, Dewsbury South, Dewsbury West, Kirkburton, and Mirfield.

The constituency covers the towns of Dewsbury and Mirfield, and the surrounding areas.

In the 2010 redistribution, the constituency lost the Labour-leaning ward of Heckmondwike, but gained the Conservative-leaning wards of Denby Dale and Kirkburton.

Constituency profile

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The seat has a substantial Muslim population in the town of Dewsbury (particularly the Savile Town district), combined a few suburban and rural affluent parts such as Denby Dale, Mirfield, and Kirkburton. The town of Dewsbury itself is strongly Labour, and the remaining wards mostly Conservative. Overall the seat has close to national average income and several developments have desirable views as the upland town cuts into the Pennines. Relatively few people rely upon social housing, however the Dewsbury East ward contains a high proportion of social housing in the Chickenley estate, while Dewsbury South contains the Thornhill area, where the local school was the subject of the acclaimed Educating Yorkshire series. In the light of increasing concern over Muslim extremism, the Labour Party candidate Shahid Malik enjoyed a fairly large public media profile after his victory in 2005, with various TV appearances and interviews, strongly denouncing believers in and adherents of such views; however, this has also been a strong area for the British National Party, who obtained their highest vote in Britain (13.1%) in the 2005 general election, much of it taken at the Labour Party's expense. They have also had a substantial vote at local level, when in 2006 for the first time in the UK the BNP polled more votes than any other party standing. However, at the 2010 general election, the BNP's popularity in Dewsbury fell (despite a substantial nationwide rise in support for the party compared to five years previously) and they gained a mere 6% of the vote.[4]

Members of Parliament

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Election Member[5] Party
1868 Sir John Simon Liberal
1888 by-election Mark Oldroyd Liberal
1902 by-election Walter Runciman Liberal
1918 Emil Pickering Coalition Conservative
1922 Benjamin Riley Labour
1923 Edmund Harvey Liberal
1924 Benjamin Riley Labour
1931 Walter Rea Liberal
1935 Benjamin Riley Labour
1945 Will Paling Labour
1959 David Ginsburg Labour
1981 Social Democrat
1983 John Whitfield Conservative
1987 Ann Taylor Labour
2005 Shahid Malik Labour
2010 Simon Reevell Conservative
2015 Paula Sherriff Labour
2019 Mark Eastwood Conservative
2024 Constituency abolished

Election results 1868–2024

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Elections in the 1860s

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1868 General Election: Dewsbury[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Simon 3,392 53.7
Liberal Handel Cossham 2,923 46.3
Majority 469 7.4
Turnout 6,315 89.3
Registered electors 7,072
Liberal win (new seat)

Elections in the 1870s

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1874 General Election: Dewsbury[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Simon 3,706 52.9 −0.8
Liberal John Charles Cox[7] 3,272 46.7 +0.4
Conservative William Henry Colbeck[8] 26 0.4 New
Majority 434 6.2 −1.2
Turnout 7,004 79.6 −9.7
Registered electors 8,803
Liberal hold Swing −0.6

Elections in the 1880s

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1880 general election: Dewsbury[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Simon 3,599 42.6 −10.3
Liberal William Hoyle[9] 3,254 38.6 −8.1
Conservative Alfred Austin[10] 1,586 18.8 +18.4
Majority 345 4.0 −2.2
Turnout 8,439 84.7 +5.1
Registered electors 9,960
Liberal hold Swing −1.1
1885 general election: Dewsbury[11][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Simon 6,124 62.6 +20.0
Conservative Joseph Fox[13] 3,664 37.4 +18.6
Majority 2,460 25.2 +21.2
Turnout 9,788 85.6 +0.9
Registered electors 11,439
Liberal hold Swing +0.7
1886 general election: Dewsbury[14][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Simon 5,118 65.0 +2.4
Conservative Joseph Samuel Colefax[15] 2,759 35.0 −2.4
Majority 2,359 30.0 +4.8
Turnout 7,877 68.9 −16.7
Registered electors 11,439
Liberal hold Swing +2.4
Mark Oldroyd
1888 Dewsbury by-election[14][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Mark Oldroyd 6,071 60.5 −4.5
Liberal Unionist H. O. Arnold-Forster 3,969 39.5 +4.5
Majority 2,102 21.0 −9.0
Turnout 10,040 85.3 +16.4
Registered electors 11,767
Liberal hold Swing −4.5
  • Caused by Simon's resignation.

Elections in the 1890s

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General election 1892: Dewsbury[11][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Mark Oldroyd 5,759 61.1 −3.9
Conservative Henry Cautley 3,670 38.9 +3.9
Majority 2,089 22.2 −7.8
Turnout 9,429 80.1 +11.2
Registered electors 11,768
Liberal hold Swing −3.9
General election 1895: Dewsbury[14][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Mark Oldroyd 5,379 52.0 −9.1
Conservative Henry Cautley 3,875 37.5 −1.4
Ind. Labour Party Edward Hartley 1,080 10.5 New
Majority 1,504 14.5 −7.7
Turnout 10,334 84.9 +4.8
Registered electors 12,167
Liberal hold Swing −3.9

Elections in the 1900s

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General election 1900: Dewsbury[11][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Mark Oldroyd 6,045 60.8 +8.8
Conservative Forbes St John Morrow 3,897 39.2 +1.7
Majority 2,148 21.6 +7.1
Turnout 9,942 74.8 −10.1
Registered electors 13,296
Liberal hold Swing +3.6
Walter Runciman
Harry Quelch
1902 Dewsbury by-election[11][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Walter Runciman 5,660 48.1 −12.7
Conservative Joe Haley 4,512 38.3 −0.9
Social Democratic Federation Harry Quelch 1,597 13.6 New
Majority 1,148 9.8 −11.8
Turnout 11,769 87.3 +12.5
Registered electors 13,476
Liberal hold Swing −5.9
General election 1906: Dewsbury[16][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Walter Runciman 6,764 54.7 −6.1
Conservative W. B. Boyd-Carpenter 2,959 24.0 −15.2
Labour Repr. Cmte. Ben Turner 2,629 21.3 New
Majority 3,805 30.7 +9.1
Turnout 12,352 88.5 +13.7
Registered electors 13,951
Liberal hold Swing +4.6
1908 Dewsbury by-election[16][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Walter Runciman 5,594 46.1 −8.6
Conservative W. B. Boyd-Carpenter 4,078 33.7 +9.7
Labour Ben Turner 2,446 20.2 −1.1
Majority 1,516 12.4 −18.3
Turnout 12,118 86.2 −2.3
Registered electors 14,056
Liberal hold Swing −9.2

Elections in the 1910s

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General election January 1910: Dewsbury[16][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Walter Runciman 7,882 62.4 +7.7
Conservative B. Dent 4,747 37.6 +13.6
Majority 3,315 24.8 −5.9
Turnout 12,629 87.8 −0.7
Liberal hold Swing −3.1
General election December 1910: Dewsbury[16][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Walter Runciman 7,061 63.6 +1.2
Conservative Edward Overend Simpson 4,033 36.4 −1.2
Majority 3,028 27.2 +2.4
Turnout 11,094 77.1 −10.7
Registered electors 14,389
Liberal hold Swing +1.2
General election 1918: Dewsbury[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
C Unionist Emil Pickering 7,853 42.3 +5.9
Labour Benjamin Riley 5,596 30.1 New
Liberal Walter Runciman 5,130 27.6 −36.0
Majority 2,257 12.2 N/A
Turnout 18,579 67.3 −9.8
Registered electors 27,592
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +21.0
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

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General election 1922: Dewsbury
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Benjamin Riley 8,821 37.3 +7.2
Liberal Edmund Harvey 8,065 34.1 +5.5
Unionist Osbert Peake 6,744 28.5 −13.8
Majority 756 3.2 N/A
Turnout 23,630 83.9 +16.6
Labour gain from Unionist Swing
General election 1923: Dewsbury
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Edmund Harvey 11,179 55.6 +21.5
Labour Benjamin Riley 8,923 44.4 +13.1
Majority 2,256 11.2 N/A
Turnout 20,102 70.7 −13.2
Liberal gain from Labour Swing
General election 1924: Dewsbury
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Benjamin Riley 9,941 41.1 −3.3
Unionist Frederick Walter Skelsey 7,516 31.1 New
Liberal Edmund Harvey 6,723 27.8 −27.8
Majority 2,425 10.0 N/A
Turnout 28,677 84.3 +13.6
Labour gain from Liberal Swing
General election 1929: Dewsbury
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Benjamin Riley 14,420 46.2 +5.1
Liberal Ronald Walker 10,607 34.0 +6.2
Unionist JWW Shuttleworth 6,175 19.8 −11.3
Majority 3,813 12.2 +2.2
Turnout 36,250 86.1 +1.8
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

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General election 1931: Dewsbury[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Walter Rea 19,463 63.68 +29.68
Labour Benjamin Riley 11,101 36.32 −9.88
Majority 8,362 27.36 N/A
Turnout 30,564 84.23 −1.88
Liberal gain from Labour Swing
General election 1935: Dewsbury[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Benjamin Riley 14,066 47.21 +10.89
National Labour John Fennell 8,798 29.53 New
Liberal Walter Rea 6,933 23.27 −40.41
Majority 5,268 17.68 N/A
Turnout 29,797 80.81 −3.42
Labour gain from Liberal Swing

General Election 1939–40:

Another General Election was due 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:

Elections in the 1940s

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General election 1945: Dewsbury[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Paling 16,330 56.3 +9.1
National Liberal Ernest Eric Ritchie Kilner 8,674 29.9 N/A
Liberal Thomas Mercer Banks 4,023 13.9 −9.4
Majority 7,656 26.4 +8.7
Turnout 29,027 80.3 −0.5
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

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General election 1950: Dewsbury[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Paling 29,341 53.6 −2.7
Conservative James Ramsden 18,076 33.0 +3.1
Liberal Granville Slack 7,323 13.4 −0.5
Majority 11,265 20.6 −5.8
Turnout 54,740 87.9 +7.6
Labour hold Swing -2.9
General election 1951: Dewsbury[22][23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Paling 28,650 53.3 −0.3
National Liberal James Ramsden 19,562 36.4 +3.4
Liberal Joseph Snowden 5,584 10.4 −3.0
Majority 9,088 16.9 −3.7
Turnout 53,796 85.8 −2.1
Labour hold Swing
General election 1955: Dewsbury[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Paling 23,286 52.1 −1.2
Conservative Michael Shaw 15,869 35.5 −0.9
Liberal Joseph Snowden 5,516 12.4 +2.0
Majority 7,417 16.6 −0.3
Turnout 44,671 80.8 −5.0
Labour hold Swing
General election 1959: Dewsbury[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Ginsburg 20,870 46.0 −6.1
Conservative Marcus Fox 17,201 37.9 +2.4
Liberal John M McLusky 7,321 16.1 +3.7
Majority 3,669 7.1 −8.5
Turnout 45,392 82.7 +1.9
Labour hold Swing -4.3

Elections in the 1960s

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General election 1964: Dewsbury[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Ginsburg 21,284 48.4 +2.4
Conservative Barbara M Garden 15,046 34.2 −3.7
Liberal Alan Allsop 7,679 17.5 +1.4
Majority 6,238 14.2 +6.1
Turnout 44,009 79.5 −3.2
Labour hold Swing +3.1
General election 1966: Dewsbury[27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Ginsburg 23,027 53.6 +5.2
Conservative Donald H Haynes 12,361 28.8 −5.4
Liberal Alan Allsop 7,593 17.7 +0.2
Majority 10,666 24.8 +10.6
Turnout 42,981 77.9 −1.6
Labour hold Swing +5.3

Elections in the 1970s

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General election 1970: Dewsbury[28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Ginsburg 22,015 48.7 −4.9
Conservative John M. Stanfield 17,468 38.7 +9.9
Liberal Alan Allsop 5,688 12.6 −5.1
Majority 4,547 10.0 −14.8
Turnout 45,171 74.5 −3.4
Labour hold Swing -7.4
General election February 1974: Dewsbury[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Ginsburg 21,186 42.5 −6.2
Conservative Ivor James Humphrey 15,774 31.6 −7.1
Liberal Alan Allsop 12,889 25.9 +13.3
Majority 5,412 10.9 +0.9
Turnout 49,859 81.8 +7.3
Labour hold Swing +0.4
General election October 1974: Dewsbury[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Ginsburg 20,378 45.4 +2.9
Conservative Marguerite Elizabeth Liversidge Wood 13,477 30.1 −1.5
Liberal Alan Allsop 10,991 24.5 −1.4
Majority 6,901 15.3 +4.4
Turnout 44,846 72.9 −8.9
Labour hold Swing +2.3
General election 1979: Dewsbury[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Ginsburg 22,829 46.7 +1.3
Conservative Roy Galley 18,448 37.8 +7.7
Liberal Neil Philip Derbyshire 7,580 15.5 −9.0
Majority 4,381 8.9 −6.4
Turnout 48,857 77.1 +4.2
Labour hold Swing −3.2

Elections in the 1980s

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General election 1983: Dewsbury[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Whitfield 20,297 39.4 +1.6
Labour Denis Ripley 18,211 35.3 −11.4
SDP David Ginsburg 13,065 25.3 +9.8
Majority 2,086 4.1 N/A
Turnout 51,573 70.8 −6.3
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +6.5
General election 1987: Dewsbury[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Taylor 23,668 42.4 +7.1
Conservative John Whitfield 23,223 41.6 +2.2
SDP Alan Mills 8,907 16.0 −9.3
Majority 445 0.8 N/A
Turnout 55,798 78.8 +8.0
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +2.4

Elections in the 1990s

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General election 1992: Dewsbury[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Taylor 25,596 43.8 +1.4
Conservative John Whitfield 24,962 42.7 +1.1
Liberal Democrats Robert Meadowcroft 6,570 11.3 −4.7
BNP Jane Birdwood 660 1.1 New
Green Neil Denby 471 0.8 New
Natural Law Janet Marsden 146 0.3 New
Majority 634 1.1 +0.3
Turnout 58,405 80.2 +2.4
Labour hold Swing +0.2
General election 1997: Dewsbury[33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Taylor 21,286 49.4 +2.1
Conservative Paul McCormick 12,963 30.1 −9.9
Liberal Democrats Kingsley Hill 4,422 10.3 +0.4
BNP Frances Taylor 2,232 5.2 +4.1
Referendum Wendy Golf 1,019 2.4 New
Independent Labour David Daniel 770 1.8 New
Green Ian McCourtie 383 0.9 +0.1
Majority 8,323 19.3 +18.2
Turnout 43,905 70.0 −10.2
Labour hold Swing +9.2
  • Swing in 1997 is based on notional figures as the seat had been redrawn prior to the election.

Elections in the 2000s

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General election 2001: Dewsbury[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ann Taylor 18,524 50.5 +1.1
Conservative Robert Cole 11,075 30.2 +0.1
Liberal Democrats Ian Cuthbertson 4,382 12.0 +1.7
BNP Russell Smith 1,632 4.5 −0.7
Green Brenda Smithson 560 1.5 +0.6
UKIP David Peace 478 1.3 New
Majority 7,449 20.3 +1.0
Turnout 36,651 58.8 −11.2
Labour hold Swing +0.5
General election 2005: Dewsbury[35]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Shahid Malik 15,807 41.0 −9.5
Conservative Sayeeda Warsi 11,192 29.0 −1.2
Liberal Democrats Kingsley Hill 5,624 14.6 +2.6
BNP David Exley 5,066 13.1 +8.6
Green Brenda Smithson 593 1.5 0.0
Independent Alan Girvan 313 0.8 New
Majority 3,615 12.0 −8.3
Turnout 38,595 62.0 +3.2
Labour hold Swing −4.2

Elections in the 2010s

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General election 2010: Dewsbury[36]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Simon Reevell 18,898 35.0 +3.3
Labour Shahid Malik 17,372 32.2 −8.4
Liberal Democrats Andrew Hutchinson 9,150 16.9 +3.2
Independent Khizar Iqbal 3,813 7.1 New
BNP Roger Roberts 3,265 6.0 −7.1
Green Adrian Cruden 849 1.6 +0.1
English Democrat Michael Felse 661 1.2 New
Majority 1,526 2.8 N/A
Turnout 54,008 68.5 +6.5
Conservative gain from Labour Swing -4.6
General election 2015: Dewsbury[37][38]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paula Sherriff 22,406 41.8 +9.6
Conservative Simon Reevell 20,955 39.1 +4.1
UKIP Mark Thackray 6,649 12.4 New
Liberal Democrats Ednan Hussain 1,924 3.6 −13.3
Green Adrian Cruden 1,366 2.5 +0.9
Yorkshire First Richard Carter 236 0.4 New
CPA Steve Hakes 94 0.2 New
Majority 1,451 2.7 N/A
Turnout 53,630 67.2 −1.3
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +2.8
General election 2017: Dewsbury[39]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paula Sherriff 28,814 51.0 +9.2
Conservative Beth Prescott 25,493 45.1 +6.0
Liberal Democrats Ednan Hussain 1,214 2.1 −1.5
Green Simon Cope 1,024 1.8 −0.7
Majority 3,321 5.9 +3.2
Turnout 56,545 69.5 +2.3
Labour hold Swing +1.6
General election 2019: Dewsbury[40]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Mark Eastwood 26,179 46.4 +1.3
Labour Paula Sherriff 24,618 43.7 −7.3
Liberal Democrats John Rossington 2,406 4.3 +2.2
Brexit Party Philip James 1,874 3.3 New
Green Simon Cope 1,060 1.9 +0.1
Monster Raving Loony Sir Archibald Earl Eaton Stanton 252 0.4 New
Majority 1,561 2.7 N/A
Turnout 56,389 69.4 −0.1
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +4.3

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

References

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General

Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

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