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
Events
January–March
* January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam.
* January 4 – ...
until it was abolished for the
1983 general election
The following elections occurred in the year 1983.
Africa
* 1983 Cameroonian parliamentary election
* 1983 Equatorial Guinean legislative election
* 1983 Kenyan general election
* 1983 Malagasy parliamentary election
* 1983 Malawian general e ...
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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. Following the defeat of Liberal leader
Sir Herbert Samuel
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, (6 November 1870 – 5 February 1963) was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935.
He was the first nominally-practising Jew to serve as a Cabinet minister and to be ...
in 1935, the seat became a safe Conservative seat for the remainder of its existence.
It was largely replaced by the new
Rossendale & Darwen constituency.
Boundaries
1885–1918: The Boroughs of Over Darwen and Blackburn, the Sessional Divisions of Darwen and Walton-le-Dale, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Blackburn and Clitheroe.
1918–1950: The Borough of Darwen, the Urban District of Turton, and the Rural District of Blackburn.
1950–1955: The Borough of Darwen, the Urban Districts of Turton and Withnell, and the Rural District of Blackburn. ''Withnell Urban District was added from the pre-1950 Chorley constituency.''
1955–1983: The St. Andrew's, St. Francis's and St. Mark's wards of the County Borough of Blackburn, the Borough of Darwen, the Urban District of Turton, and the Rural District of Blackburn.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
*Unionist:
John Rutherford
*Liberal:
Frederick Hindle Frederick Hindle may refer to:
* Frederick Hindle (politician, born 1848) (1848–1925), British Liberal politician, MP for Darwen January–December 1910
* Frederick Hindle (politician, born 1877) (1877–1953), British Liberal politician, MP for ...
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1940s
A General election was due to take place before the end of 1940, but was postponed due to the Second World War. By 1939, the following candidates had been selected to contest this constituency;
*Conservative:
Stuart Russell
*Liberal:
Phillip Rea
*Labour: Ronald Haines
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
See also
*
1943 Darwen by-election
The 1943 Darwen by-election was a by-election held on 15 December 1943 for the British House of Commons constituency of Darwen in Lancashire.
Vacancy
The seat had become vacant after the death in October of the Conservative Member of Parliament ...
References
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Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic)
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
Politics of Blackburn with Darwen
Darwen