Heywood and Royton

Heywood and Royton
Heywood and Royton
Former borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1950–1983
Seats	one
Created from	Heywood and Radcliffe and Royton
Replaced by	Littleborough and Saddleworth, Heywood & Middleton, Oldham Central and Royton, Rossendale and Darwen and Rochdale

Heywood and Royton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Heywood and Royton districts in the north-west of Greater Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when its territory was largely divided between the new constituencies of Heywood & Middleton and Oldham Central and Royton.

	Member	Party
1950	Sir Harold Sutcliffe	Conservative
1955	Tony Leavey	Conservative
1964	Joel Barnett	Labour
1983	constituency abolished: see Heywood and Middleton & Oldham Central and Royton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Harold Sutcliffe	23,518	44.04
	Labour	Charles J Hurley	21,482	40.23
	Liberal	William Hibbert Watkinson	8,404	15.74
Majority			2,036	3.81
Turnout			53,404	87.98
	Conservative win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Harold Sutcliffe	28,086	53.84
	Labour	Charles J Hurley	24,083	46.16
Majority			4,003	7.67
Turnout			52,169	85.08
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Tony Leavey	25,824	53.31
	Labour	Alan Lever Tillotson	22,614	46.69
Majority			3,210	6.63
Turnout			48,438	81.82
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tony Leavey	19,742	40.25
	Labour	Harry Nevin	17,588	35.86
	Liberal	Geoffrey Eugene MacPherson	11,713	23.88	N/A
Majority			2,154	4.39
Turnout			49,043	84.75
	Conservative hold		Swing

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Heywood and Royton
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
1950–1983
Seats	one
Created from	Heywood and Radcliffe and Royton^[1]
Replaced by	Littleborough and Saddleworth, Heywood & Middleton, Oldham Central and Royton, Rossendale and Darwen and Rochdale^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joel Barnett	20,174	40.80
	Conservative	Tony Leavey	19,358	39.15
	Liberal	Wilfred Eric Critchley	9,914	20.05
Majority			816	1.65	N/A
Turnout			49,446	82.78
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Joel Barnett	24,701	48.93
	Conservative	David Waddington	19,048	37.73
	Liberal	James Clarney	6,732	13.34
Majority			5,653	11.20
Turnout			50,481	79.58
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Joel Barnett	25,081	45.70
	Conservative	Ian MacGregor	24,178	44.06
	Liberal	Francis Joseph Beetham	5,620	10.24
Majority			903	1.65
Turnout			54,879	76.13
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Joel Barnett	28,216	44.32
	Conservative	Ian MacGregor	21,054	33.07
	Liberal	Viv Bingham	14,392	22.61
Majority			7,162	11.25
Turnout			63,662	82.62
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Joel Barnett	27,206	45.74
	Conservative	Peter Morgan	19,307	32.46
	Liberal	Viv Bingham	12,969	21.80
Majority			7,899	13.28
Turnout			59,482	76.55
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joel Barnett	28,489	45.24
	Conservative	Peter Morgan	26,202	41.61
	Liberal	M Hewitt	7,644	12.14
	National Front	R Marsh	641	1.02	N/A
Majority			2,287	3.63
Turnout			62,976	76.61
	Labour hold		Swing