Chorley (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 53°39′11″N 2°37′55″W / 53.653°N 2.632°W
Chorley | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Chorley in Lancashire | |
![]() Location of Lancashire within England | |
County | Lancashire |
Population | 94,932 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 75,938 (December 2018)[2] |
Major settlements | Chorley |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1885 |
Member of Parliament | Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | North Lancashire |
Chorley is a constituency[n 1][n 2] in Lancashire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Lindsay Hoyle. Hoyle was originally elected for the Labour Party, but in 2019 became the Speaker, making him unaffiliated.
Constituency profile[]
Chorley constituency consists of the majority of the borough of Chorley. As well as the central market town of Chorley itself, the seat extends into southern Lancashire rural hinterland with three major villages and minor villages.
Chorley's expansion is assured with the building of Buckshaw Village, an urban development sprawling over the former Royal Ordnance Site east of Leyland in the seat.
Boundaries[]
1885–1918: The Sessional Division of Leyland Hundred, and part of the Sessional Division of Leyland.
1918–1950: The Municipal Borough of Chorley, the Urban Districts of Adlington, Croston, Leyland, and Withnell, the Rural District of Chorley, and in the Rural District of Wigan the civil parishes of Haigh, Parbold, Worthington, and Wrightington.
1950–1955: The Municipal Borough of Chorley, the Urban Districts of Adlington and Leyland, and the Rural District of Chorley.
1955–1983: The Municipal Borough of Chorley, the Urban Districts of Adlington, Leyland and Withnell, and the Rural District of Chorley.
1983–1997: The Borough of Chorley, and the District of West Lancashire wards of Parbold and Wrightington.
1997–2010: The Borough of Chorley.
2010–present: The Borough of Chorley wards of Adlington and Anderton, Astley and Buckshaw, Brindle and Hoghton, Chisnall, Chorley East, Chorley North East, Chorley North West, Chorley South East, Chorley South West, Clayton-le-Woods and Whittle-le-Woods, Clayton-le-Woods North, Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden, Coppull, Euxton North, Euxton South, Heath Charnock and Rivington, Pennine, and Wheelton and Withnell.
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Lancashire leading up to the 2010 United Kingdom general election the Boundary Commission for England created a new seat of Wyre and Preston North in the central part of the county, which caused "knock-on" effects elsewhere. Chorley constituency was one of the largest in electorate at the start of the review, which was a factor in the alterations to both its own composition and the changes to surrounding constituencies. These changes took away from the seat all the areas to the west of the M6 motorway, namely Croston, Eccleston, Bretherton and Mawdesley. These move to South Ribble.
History[]
Since the 1945 general election Chorley has proved to be a bellwether, changing hands between Labour and the Conservatives; however, this pattern was broken in 2010 when Labour MP Lindsay Hoyle retained the seat against the national trend. Chorley itself is Labour's strongest seat in the area, with the rural hinterland and smaller towns and villages more inclined to vote Conservative.
Members of Parliament[]
Lindsay Hoyle has been MP for Chorley since 1997 as a member of the Labour Party. In November 2019 Hoyle was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons following the resignation of John Bercow; Sir Lindsay had been Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons under Bercow since 2010.
There is an inconsistently followed convention, which is mostly kept by the major parties, not to oppose the Speaker at elections. In keeping with this, the previously announced Liberal Democrat candidate, Paul Valentine, subsequently withdrew from the general election once Sir Lindsay was appointed Speaker.[3] However the Green Party candidate, James Melling, confirmed that he will stand against the incumbent Speaker.[4]
Election | Member[5][6] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1885 | Joseph Feilden | Conservative | |
1895 by-election | David Lindsay | ||
1913 by-election | Henry Hibbert | ||
1918 | Douglas Hacking | Coalition Conservative | |
1922 | Conservative | ||
1945 | Clifford Kenyon | Labour | |
1970 | Connie Monks | Conservative | |
Feb 1974 | George Rodgers | Labour | |
1979 | Den Dover | Conservative | |
1997 | Lindsay Hoyle | Labour | |
2019 | Speaker |
Elections[]
Elections in the 2010s[]
The Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives, and Labour traditionally do not stand against the sitting Speaker of the House of Commons, and consequently did not oppose Lindsay Hoyle's re-election bid. The Brexit Party did not stand an official candidate, however their former candidate stood as an independent, having changed his ballot name to Mark Brexit-Smith.[7][8] The Green Party does not follow the convention of standing aside for the Speaker, and also fielded a candidate in the election.[9]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Speaker | Lindsay Hoyle | 26,831 | 67.3 | +12.0 | |
Independent | Mark Brexit-Smith | 9,439 | 23.7 | New | |
Green | James Melling | 3,600 | 9.0 | +8.0 | |
Majority | 17,392 | 43.6 | +30.1 | ||
Turnout | 39,870 | 51.0 | ―21.7 | ||
Speaker hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lindsay Hoyle | 30,745 | 55.3 | +10.2 | |
Conservative | Caroline Moon | 23,233 | 41.8 | +5.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Fenn | 1,126 | 2.0 | ―0.6 | |
Green | Peter Lageard | 530 | 1.0 | ―1.1 | |
Majority | 7,512 | 13.5 | +4.7 | ||
Turnout | 55,634 | 72.7 | +3.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lindsay Hoyle | 23,322 | 45.1 | +1.9 | |
Conservative | Robert Loughenbury | 18,792 | 36.3 | ―1.7 | |
UKIP | Mark Smith | 6,995 | 13.5 | +9.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Fenn | 1,354 | 2.6 | ―11.4 | |
Green | Alistair Straw | 1,111 | 2.1 | New | |
Independent | Adrian Maudsley | 138 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 4,530 | 8.8 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 51,712 | 69.2 | ―1.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lindsay Hoyle | 21,515 | 43.2 | ||
Conservative | Alan Cullens | 18,922 | 38.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Fenn | 6,957 | 14.0 | ||
UKIP | Nick Hogan | 2,021 | 4.1 | New | |
Independent | Christopher P. Curtis | 359 | 0.7 | New | |
Majority | 2,593 | 5.2 | |||
Turnout | 49,774 | 70.2 | |||
Labour win (new boundaries) |
Elections in the 2000s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lindsay Hoyle | 25,131 | 50.7 | ―1.6 | |
Conservative | Simon Mallett | 17,506 | 35.3 | +0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alexander Wilson-Fletcher | 6,932 | 14.0 | +2.8 | |
Majority | 7,625 | 15.4 | ―2.2 | ||
Turnout | 49,569 | 62.9 | +0.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lindsay Hoyle | 25,088 | 52.3 | ―0.7 | |
Conservative | Peter Booth | 16,644 | 34.7 | ―1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Fenn | 5,372 | 11.2 | +2.7 | |
UKIP | John Frost | 848 | 1.8 | New | |
Majority | 8,444 | 17.6 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 47,952 | 62.2 | ―15.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.3 |
Elections in the 1990s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lindsay Hoyle | 30,607 | 53.0 | ||
Conservative | Den Dover | 20,737 | 35.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Simon Jones | 4,900 | 8.5 | ||
Referendum | Anthony Heaton | 1,319 | 2.3 | New | |
Natural Law | Peter Leadbetter | 143 | 0.2 | ||
Majority | 9,870 | 17.1 | |||
Turnout | 57,706 | 77.3 | |||
Labour win (new boundaries) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Den Dover | 30,715 | 47.2 | ―0.8 | |
Labour | Raymond McManus | 26,469 | 40.7 | +6.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Janet Ross-Mills | 7,452 | 11.5 | ―4.6 | |
Natural Law | Peter Leadbetter | 402 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 4,246 | 6.5 | ―6.8 | ||
Turnout | 65,038 | 82.8 | +5.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.4 |
Elections in the 1980s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Den Dover | 29,015 | 48.0 | ―0.3 | |
Labour | Anthony Watmough | 20,958 | 34.7 | +4.2 | |
Liberal | Ian Simpson | 9,706 | 16.1 | ―4.2 | |
Green (UK) | Anthony Holgate | 714 | 1.2 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 8,057 | 13.3 | ―4.5 | ||
Turnout | 60,393 | 76.9 | ―2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Den Dover | 27,861 | 48.3 | ||
Labour | Ivan Taylor | 17,586 | 30.5 | ||
SDP | Peter O'Neill | 11,691 | 20.2 | New | |
Ecology | Anthony Holgate | 451 | 0.8 | New | |
Independent | Eva Rokas | 114 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 10,275 | 17.8 | |||
Turnout | 57,703 | 79.2 | |||
Conservative win (new boundaries) |
Elections in the 1970s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Den Dover | 31,125 | 46.8 | +7.1 | |
Labour | George Rodgers | 28,546 | 43.0 | ―1.1 | |
Liberal | Neva Orrell | 6,388 | 9.6 | ―6.3 | |
National Front | Michael John Dean | 379 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 2,579 | 3.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 66,438 | 82.0 | +0.8 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Rodgers | 27,290 | 44.1 | +3.8 | |
Conservative | Barry Porter | 24,577 | 39.7 | ±0.0 | |
Liberal | Neva Orrell | 9,831 | 15.9 | ―4.1 | |
More Prosperous Britain | Harold Smith | 185 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 2,713 | 4.4 | +3.8 | ||
Turnout | 61,883 | 81.2 | +2.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Rodgers | 25,440 | 40.3 | ―4.0 | |
Conservative | Constance Monks | 25,035 | 39.7 | ―7.5 | |
Liberal | Neva Orrell | 12,652 | 20.0 | +12.1 | |
Majority | 405 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 63,127 | 83.7 | +4.9 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Constance Monks | 26,577 | 47.2 | +2.0 | |
Labour | Derek Forwood | 24,900 | 44.3 | ―10.5 | |
Liberal | Gordon Payne | 4,428 | 7.9 | New | |
Anti-Party | Barry Elder | 334 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 1,677 | 2.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 56,239 | 78.8 | ―2.3 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +6.3 |
Elections in the 1960s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clifford Kenyon | 27,319 | 54.8 | +6.4 | |
Conservative | Constance Monks | 22,575 | 45.2 | +4.1 | |
Majority | 4,744 | 9.5 | +2.2 | ||
Turnout | 49,894 | 81.1 | ―3.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clifford Kenyon | 24,710 | 48.4 | ―2.3 | |
Conservative | John Sutcliffe | 20,997 | 41.1 | ―8.2 | |
Liberal | Alistair Bell | 5,331 | 10.5 | New | |
Majority | 3,713 | 7.3 | +5.9 | ||
Turnout | 51,038 | 84.6 | ―1.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.0 |
Elections in the 1950s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clifford Kenyon | 25,641 | 50.7 | ―0.7 | |
Conservative | Frank Taylor | 24,965 | 49.3 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 676 | 1.4 | ―1.4 | ||
Turnout | 50,606 | 85.7 | +1.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clifford Kenyon | 24,994 | 51.4 | +0.8 | |
Conservative | Alfred Hall-Davis | 23,656 | 48.6 | ―0.8 | |
Majority | 1,338 | 2.8 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 48,650 | 84.3 | ―3.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clifford Kenyon | 24,771 | 50.6 | +3.0 | |
Conservative | Alfred Hall-Davis | 24,118 | 49.4 | +2.5 | |
Majority | 583 | 1.2 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 48,889 | 88.1 | ―0.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clifford Kenyon | 23,233 | 47.6 | ||
Conservative | Andrew Fountaine | 22,872 | 46.9 | ||
Liberal | Florence Emilie Adams | 2,706 | 5.5 | New | |
Majority | 361 | 0.7 | |||
Turnout | 46,105 | 88.4 | |||
Labour win (new boundaries) |
Elections in the 1940s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clifford Kenyon | 24,550 | 53.2 | +11.8 | |
Conservative | Robert Hamilton Brown | 21,595 | 46.8 | ―8.5 | |
Majority | 2,955 | 6.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 46,145 | 76.2 | 2.2 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +10.2 |
Elections in the 1930s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Douglas Hacking | 23,061 | 55.3 | ―14.0 | |
Labour | Arthur Whiting | 17,286 | 41.4 | +10.7 | |
Ind. Labour Party | Bob Edwards | 1,365 | 3.3 | New | |
Majority | 5,775 | 13.9 | ―24.7 | ||
Turnout | 41,712 | 78.4 | ―1.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―12.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Douglas Hacking | 28,749 | 69.3 | +23.7 | |
Labour | John Barrow | 12,734 | 30.7 | ―11.7 | |
Majority | 16,015 | 38.6 | +35.4 | ||
Turnout | 41,483 | 80.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +17.7 |
Elections in the 1920s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Douglas Hacking | 19,728 | 45.6 | ―12.1 | |
Labour | William Taylor | 18,369 | 42.4 | +0.1 | |
Liberal | Hugh Emlyn-Jones | 5,207 | 12.0 | New | |
Majority | 1,359 | 3.2 | ―12.2 | ||
Turnout | 43,304 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Douglas Hacking | 17,844 | 57.7 | +3.0 | |
Labour | Zeph Hutchinson | 13,074 | 42.3 | ―3.0 | |
Majority | 4,770 | 15.4 | +6.0 | ||
Turnout | 30,918 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +3.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Douglas Hacking | 14,715 | 54.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Zeph Hutchinson | 12,179 | 45.3 | New | |
Majority | 2,536 | 9.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 26,894 | 74.4 | N/A | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Douglas Hacking | Unopposed | |||
Unionist hold |
Elections in the 1910s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Unionist | Douglas Hacking | 13,059 | 67.7 | |
Labour | Elijah Sandham | 6,222 | 32.3 | New | |
Majority | 6,837 | 35.4 | |||
Turnout | 19,896 | 54.5 | |||
Unionist win (new boundaries) |
General Election 1914/15: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Unionist: Henry Hibbert
- Liberal: John Peter Todd Jackson[24]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Henry Hibbert | 7,573 | 57.5 | ―2.8 | |
Liberal | John Peter Todd Jackson | 5,606 | 42.5 | +2.8 | |
Majority | 1,967 | 15.0 | ―5.6 | ||
Turnout | 13,179 | 87.1 | +1.3 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | ―2.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Lindsay | 7,423 | 60.3 | +2.0 | |
Liberal | John Peter Todd Jackson | 4,887 | 39.7 | ―2.0 | |
Majority | 2,536 | 20.6 | +4.0 | ||
Turnout | 12,310 | 85.8 | ―6.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Lindsay | 7,735 | 58.3 | +2.6 | |
Liberal | Lyon Blease | 5,523 | 41.7 | ―2.6 | |
Majority | 2,212 | 16.6 | +5.2 | ||
Turnout | 13,258 | 92.4 | +0.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1900s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Lindsay | 6,803 | 55.7 | N/A | |
Liberal | Eliot Crawshay-Williams | 5,416 | 44.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,387 | 11.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 12,219 | 92.2 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 13,247 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Lindsay | 6,226 | 56.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | James Lawrence | 4,798 | 43.5 | New | |
Majority | 1,428 | 13.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 11,024 | 85.9 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 12,836 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Lindsay | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1890s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Lindsay | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Lindsay | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Joseph Feilden | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1880s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Joseph Feilden | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Joseph Feilden | 5,867 | 67.6 | ||
Liberal | Harold Wright | 2,808 | 32.4 | ||
Majority | 3,059 | 35.2 | |||
Turnout | 8,675 | 87.8 | |||
Registered electors | 9,881 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ A county constituency. (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ^ 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.
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Sources[]
External links[]
- nomis Constituency Profile for Chorley — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.
- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
- Politics of Chorley