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| Hendon North | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Greater London |
| Electorate | 51,514 (1992)[1] |
| 1945–1997 | |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Hendon |
| Replaced by | Hendon |
Hendon North was a constituency in the former Municipal Borough of Hendon (later subsumed into the London Borough of Barnet) which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1945 general election as the existing Hendon constituency was too large (the estimated electorate in 1941 was 217,900 [2]), and lasted until the 1997 general election when the London Borough of Barnet's Parliamentary representation was reduced from four seats to three.


Boundaries
[edit]1945–1974: The Municipal Borough of Hendon wards of Burnt Oak, Edgware, Mill Hill, and West Hendon.
1974–1997: The London Borough of Barnet wards of Burnt Oak, Colindale, Edgware, Hale, and Mill Hill.
Members of Parliament
[edit]| Election | Member[3] | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Barbara Ayrton-Gould | Labour | ||
| 1950 | Ian Orr-Ewing | Conservative | ||
| 1970 | John Gorst | Conservative | Contested Hendon following redistribution | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Hendon | |||
Elections
[edit]Elections in the 1990s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Gorst | 20,569 | 53.2 | −2.4 | |
| Labour | D Hill | 13,447 | 34.8 | +9.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | P Kemp | 4,136 | 10.7 | −8.2 | |
| Green | P Duncan | 430 | 1.1 | New | |
| Natural Law | P Orr | 95 | 0.2 | New | |
| Majority | 7,122 | 18.4 | −11.7 | ||
| Turnout | 38,677 | 75.1 | +9.3 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1980s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Gorst | 20,155 | 55.6 | +6.7 | |
| Labour | Jenny Manson | 9,223 | 25.5 | +1.8 | |
| SDP | Elisabeth Jean Davies | 6,859 | 18.9 | −6.7 | |
| Majority | 10,932 | 30.1 | +5.8 | ||
| Turnout | 36,237 | 65.8 | +2.2 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Gorst | 18,499 | 49.9 | −2.2 | |
| SDP | Kenneth Craig | 9,474 | 25.6 | N/A | |
| Labour | Tony Williams | 8,786 | 23.7 | −12.3 | |
| Nationalist Party | Bernard Franklin | 194 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Independent | R Clayton | 116 | 0.3 | New | |
| Majority | 9,025 | 24.3 | +8.2 | ||
| Turnout | 37,068 | 68.0 | −5.8 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Gorst | 20,766 | 52.1 | +7.6 | |
| Labour | Frank Arthur Cooper | 14,374 | 36.0 | −3.7 | |
| Liberal | Christopher Perkin | 4,113 | 10.3 | −5.6 | |
| National Front | Bernard Franklyn | 638 | 1.6 | New | |
| Majority | 6,392 | 16.1 | +11.3 | ||
| Turnout | 39,891 | 73.8 | +1.6 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Gorst | 16,299 | 44.55 | ||
| Labour | John Stanley Champion | 14,549 | 39.68 | ||
| Liberal | I Senior | 5,822 | 15.88 | ||
| Majority | 1,750 | 4.77 | |||
| Turnout | 36,670 | 72.24 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -0.79 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Gorst | 17,285 | 42.63 | ||
| Labour | John Stanley Champion | 14,673 | 36.19 | ||
| Liberal | David Edwards | 8,585 | 6.44 | ||
| Majority | 2,612 | 6.44 | |||
| Turnout | 31,958 | 80.91 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -1.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Gorst | 18,192 | 49.3 | +2.9 | |
| Labour | Derry Irvine | 15,013 | 40.7 | −4.1 | |
| Liberal | Gerald Cass | 3,704 | 10.0 | +1.2 | |
| Majority | 3,179 | 8.6 | +7.1 | ||
| Turnout | 36,909 | 70.9 | −9.1 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 18,468 | 46.36 | ||
| Labour | Ernest Wistrich | 17,868 | 44.85 | ||
| Liberal | Gerald Cass | 3,503 | 8.79 | ||
| Majority | 600 | 1.51 | |||
| Turnout | 39,839 | 80.02 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 17,784 | 44.3 | −6.5 | |
| Labour | Alan Jinkinson | 16,660 | 41.5 | +3.0 | |
| Liberal | John Holmes | 5,719 | 14.2 | +3.5 | |
| Majority | 1,124 | 2.8 | −9.6 | ||
| Turnout | 40,163 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 21,898 | 50.85 | ||
| Labour Co-op | Cecil Genese | 16,566 | 38.47 | ||
| Liberal | Lady Hills | 4,598 | 10.68 | ||
| Majority | 5,332 | 12.38 | |||
| Turnout | 43,062 | 81.67 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 21,934 | 50.69 | ||
| Labour | Elizabeth Monkhouse | 17,874 | 41.30 | ||
| Liberal | Donald Barrington-Hudson | 3,467 | 8.01 | ||
| Majority | 4,060 | 9.39 | |||
| Turnout | 43,275 | 80.66 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 23,329 | 49.23 | ||
| Labour | Finlay Rea | 20,738 | 43.76 | ||
| Liberal | Kenneth Jupp | 3,319 | 7.00 | ||
| Majority | 2,591 | 5.47 | |||
| Turnout | 47,386 | 86.28 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 20,755 | 44.4 | +8.9 | |
| Labour | Barbara Ayrton-Gould | 18,500 | 39.6 | −8.0 | |
| Liberal | Edward Martell | 6,575 | 14.1 | −2.8 | |
| Communist | Marjorie Pollitt[19] | 918 | 2.0 | New | |
| Majority | 2,225 | 4.8 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 46,748 | 86.3 | +11.2 | ||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Barbara Ayrton-Gould | 18,251 | 47.61 | ||
| Conservative | Edwin Flavell | 13,607 | 35.49 | ||
| Liberal | Frederic Sellers | 6,478 | 16.90 | ||
| Majority | 4,644 | 12.12 | |||
| Turnout | 38,336 | 75.09 | |||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Notes and references
[edit]- ↑ "'Hendon North', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWebProject. Cognitive Computing Limited. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ↑ The Guinness Book Of Records 1980
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack 1994
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack 1990
- ↑ "Not updated: UK General Election results: June 1983". Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
- ↑ UK General Election results May 1979 at politicsresources.net
- ↑ UK General Election results October 1974 at politicsresources.net
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack 1972
- ↑ The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1970.
- ↑ The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1966.
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack 1965
- ↑ The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1964.
- ↑ The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1959.
- ↑ The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1955.
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack 1951
- ↑ The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1951.
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack 1951
- ↑ "Results". Aberdeen Press and Journal Aberdeenshire. 24 February 1950. Retrieved 22 April 2017.