Darwen (UK Parliament constituency)

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Darwen County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Darwen was a county constituency in Lancashire, centred on the town of Darwen. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

During the 1920s, the constituency was a fiercely contested marginal between the Liberal and Conservative Parties, with the sitting MP defeated at each election. At the 1924 general election, it saw a 92.7% turnout, a record for an English constituency.

It was largely replaced by the new Rossendale & Darwen constituency.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
- 3.1 Elections in the 1940s
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	James Gascoyne-Cecil	Conservative
	1892	Charles Philip Huntingdon	Liberal
	1895	Ald. John Rutherford	Conservative
	1910, January	Frederick George Hindle	Liberal
	1910, December	Ald. John Rutherford	Conservative
	1922	Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson	Conservative
	1923	Frederick Hindle	Liberal
	1924	Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson	Conservative
	1929	Herbert Samuel	Liberal
	1935	Stuart Hugh Minto Russell	Conservative
	1943	William Robert Stanley Prescott	Conservative
	1951	Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

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[edit] Elections in the 1940s

Darwen by-election, 1943
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stanley Prescott	8,869	50.2	+9.1
	Independent Liberal	Honor Balfour	8,799	49.8	N/A
Majority			70	0.4	−2.7
Turnout			17,668	45.0	&minus43.9
	Conservative hold		Swing