Bexley (UK Parliament constituency)
Bexley | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1945–February 1974 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Bexleyheath, Sidcup |
Created from | Chislehurst, Dartford |
Bexley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Bexley district of south-east London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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History
The constituency was created for the 1945 general election, from parts of the Chislehurst and Dartford seats, and abolished for the 1974 general election and replaced by two new constituencies of Bexleyheath and Sidcup.
The constituency's boundaries were co-terminous with those of the Municipal Borough of Bexley.
The MP when the constituency was abolished, the then Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, fought and won the new Sidcup constituency in 1974. He went on to represent the new seat of Old Bexley and Sidcup from 1983 until he retired from parliament in 2001 after being an MP for 50 years.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1945 | Jennie Adamson | Labour | |
1946 by-election | Ashley Bramall | Labour | |
1950 | Rt Hon Edward Heath | Conservative | |
Feb 1974 | constituency abolished: see Bexleyheath and Sidcup |
Election Results
Election in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rt. Hon. Edward Heath | 27,075 | 53.0 | +3.9 | |
Labour | John Cameron Cartwright | 19,017 | 37.2 | −6.7 | |
Liberal | E. Harrison | 3,222 | 6.3 | −1.7 | |
Independent | Edward J.R.L. Heath | 938 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Independent Conservative | M.P. Coney | 833 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,058 | 15.8 | |||
Turnout | 51,085 | 76.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rt. Hon. Edward Heath | 26,377 | 48.1 | ||
Labour | Russell L. Butler | 24,044 | 43.9 | ||
Liberal | Richard F. Lloyd | 4,405 | 8.0 | ||
Majority | 2,333 | 4.26 | |||
Turnout | 85.82 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rt. Hon. Edward Heath | 25,716 | 47.39 | ||
Labour | L.L. Reeves | 21,127 | 38.93 | ||
Liberal | P.L. MacArthur | 6,161 | 11.35 | N/A | |
Anti Common Market League | J. Paul | 1,263 | 2.33 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,589 | 8.46 | |||
Turnout | 84.48 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rt Hon. Edward Richard Heath | 32,025 | 57.79 | ||
Labour | Ernest Ashley Bramall | 23,392 | 42.21 | ||
Majority | 8,633 | 15.58 | |||
Turnout | 85.38 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edward Richard Heath | 28,610 | 54.27 | ||
Labour | R.J. Minney | 24,111 | 45.73 | ||
Majority | 4,499 | 8.53 | |||
Turnout | 82.55 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edward Richard Heath | 29,069 | 51.54 | ||
Labour | Ernest Ashley Bramall | 27,430 | 48.55 | ||
Majority | 1,639 | 2.90 | |||
Turnout | 87.80 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edward Richard Heath | 25,854 | 45.97 | ||
Labour | Ernest Ashley Bramall | 25,721 | 45.73 | ||
Liberal | Miss Mary Edith Hart | 4,186 | 7.44 | ||
Communist | C. Job | 481 | 0.86 | ||
Majority | 133 | 0.24 | |||
Turnout | 88.67 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Maj. Ashley Bramall | 19,759 | |||
Conservative | Lt.-Col. J.C. Lockwood | 17,908 | |||
Majority | 1,851 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jennie Adamson | 24,686 | 56.93 | ||
Conservative | Lt.-Col. J.C. Lockwood | 12,923 | 29.80 | ||
Liberal | Ward Smith | 5,750 | 13.26 | ||
Majority | 11,763 | 27.13 | |||
Turnout | 76.65 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)[self-published source][better source needed]
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by | Constituency represented by the Leader of the Opposition 1965–1970 |
Succeeded by Huyton |
Preceded by | Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1970–1974 |
Succeeded by Huyton |
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1945
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1974
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies represented by a sitting Prime Minister
- London Borough of Bexley