Darwen (UK Parliament constituency)
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Darwen was a parliamentary 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 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
During the 1920s, the constituency was a fiercely contested marginal between the Liberal and Conservative Parties. At the 1924 UK general election, it saw a 92.7% turnout, a record for an English constituency.
It was largely replaced by the new Rossendale & Darwen constituency.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | James Gascoyne-Cecil | Conservative | |
| 1892 | Charles Philip Huntingdon | ||
| 1895 | John Rutherford | ||
| 1910 | Frederick George Hindle | Liberal | |
| 1910 | Sir John Rutherford | ||
| 1922 | Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson | Conservative | |
| 1923 | Frederick Hindle | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson | Unionist | |
| 1929 | Herbert Samuel | Liberal | |
| 1935 | Stuart Hugh Minto Russell | Conservative | |
| 1943 | William Robert Stanley Prescott | Conservative | |
| 1951 | Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke | Conservative | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished | ||
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
