Bucklow (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Bucklow
Type = County
Year = 1945
Abolition = 1950
members = one

Bucklow was a short-lived county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first past the post voting system.

Boundaries

In 1945 the Bucklow area consisted of small towns and countryside surrounding the larger town of Altrincham, near the city of Manchester. It is now (2006) a suburban area within the Greater Manchester conurbation.

Before 1945 this division of the historic county of Cheshire, in North West England, formed part of the Knutsford and Altrincham constituencies. The Altrincham division had over 100,000 electors and was considered to be overlarge. As an interim measure, before the Boundary Commission for England carried out the first periodic review of Parliamentary boundaries throughout England, it was authorised by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944 (7 & 8 Geo. 6, c. 41) to divide the largest constituencies. The existing two Altrincham and Knutsford divisions were redrawn into three seats. Bucklow was a new constituency, which was added to the altered Knutsford and the more extensively modified Altrincham and Sale seats.

The new constituency comprised a small part of the County Borough of Manchester, the Urban Districts of Bowdon, Cheadle and Gatley, Hale, and Lymm as well as part of the Rural District of Bucklow.

In the first periodic review, which was given effect by the Representation of the People Act 1948 (which applied from the United Kingdom general election, 1950), Bucklow was divided between a number of constituencies. Cheadle and Gatley became part of Cheadle. Bowdon, Hale and Bucklow were transferred to the Knutsford division. Lymm became part of the Runcorn parliamentary seat.

Members of Parliament

Election results

Election box begin
title=General Election 1945: BucklowElection box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = William Stanley Shepherd
votes = 30,165
percentage = 57.3
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = A.W.F. Haycock
votes = 22,497
percentage = 42.7
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 7,668
percentage = 14.6
change = "N/A"Election box turnout
votes = 69,044
percentage = 76.3
change = "N/A"Election box gain with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
loser = new seat
swing = "N/A"

ee also

*List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies

References

* "Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972", compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
* "British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949", compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Revised edition - Macmillan Press 1977)
* "Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979", edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)