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'''Oldham''' was a [[United Kingdom constituencies|parliamentary constituency]] centred on the town of [[Oldham]], England. It returned two [[Member of Parliament|Members of Parliament]] (MPs) to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]. The constituency was created by the [[Reform Act 1832|Great Reform Act]] of 1832 and was abolished for the [[1950 United Kingdom general election|1950 general election]] when it was split into the [[Oldham East (UK Parliament constituency)|Oldham East]] and [[Oldham West (UK Parliament constituency)|Oldham West]] constituencies.
'''Oldham''' was a [[United Kingdom constituencies|parliamentary constituency]] centred on the town of [[Oldham]], England. It returned two [[Member of Parliament|Members of Parliament]] (MPs) to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]. The constituency was created by the [[Reform Act 1832|Great Reform Act of 1832]] and was abolished for the [[1950 United Kingdom general election|1950 general election]] when it was split into the [[Oldham East (UK Parliament constituency)|Oldham East]] and [[Oldham West (UK Parliament constituency)|Oldham West]] constituencies.


The Oldham constituency was where [[Winston Churchill]] began his political career. Although taking two attempts to succeed, in the [[1900 United Kingdom general election|1900 general election]] Churchill was elected as the member of Parliament for Oldham. He held the constituency for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] until he defected from them in defence of [[free trade]] in 1904. He then represented the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] as MP for the seat until the [[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906 general election]].
The Oldham constituency was where [[Winston Churchill]] began his political career. Although taking two attempts to succeed, in the [[1900 United Kingdom general election|1900 general election]] Churchill was elected as the member of Parliament for Oldham. He held the constituency for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] until he defected from them in defence of [[free trade]] in 1904. He then represented the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] as MP for the seat until the [[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906 general election]].

Revision as of 13:05, 2 October 2020

Oldham
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1832–1950
Seatstwo
Created fromLancashire
Replaced byOldham East and Oldham West

Oldham was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Oldham, England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act of 1832 and was abolished for the 1950 general election when it was split into the Oldham East and Oldham West constituencies.

The Oldham constituency was where Winston Churchill began his political career. Although taking two attempts to succeed, in the 1900 general election Churchill was elected as the member of Parliament for Oldham. He held the constituency for the Conservative Party until he defected from them in defence of free trade in 1904. He then represented the Liberal Party as MP for the seat until the 1906 general election.

Boundaries

Though centred on Oldham (the town), the constituency covered a much broader territory; Shaw and Crompton, Royton, Chadderton and Lees all formed part of this district, though these were each granted individual urban district status at a local government level in 1894.

Members of Parliament

Election 1st Member [1] 1st Party 2nd Member [1] 2nd Party
1832 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" | John Fielden Radical[2][3][4][5] style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" | William Cobbett Radical[2][3]
1835 by-election style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Frederick Lees Conservative[3]
1837 style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" | William Augustus Johnson Radical[6][3][4]
1847 style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" | William Johnson Fox Radical[7][2][8][9][10] rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Peelite/meta/color" | John Duncuft Peelite[11][12]
1852 rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" | John Morgan Cobbetta Radical[2][13][14]
1852 by-election style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" | William Johnson Fox Radical[7][2][8][9][10]
1857 style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" | James Platt Radical[15][16]
1857 by-election style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" | William Johnson Fox Radical[7][2][8][9]
1859 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Liberal
1862 by-election rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | J. T. Hibbert Liberal
1865 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Platt Liberal
1872 by-election rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Morgan Cobbett a Conservative
1874 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Frederick Spinks Conservative
1877 by-election rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | J. T. Hibbert Liberal
1880 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Hon. Edward Stanley Liberal
1885 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Mackenzie Maclean Conservative
1886 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Elliott Lees Conservative
1892 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Joshua Milne Cheetham Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | J. T. Hibbert Liberal
1895 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Ascroft Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Francis Oswald Conservative
1899 by-election rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Rt Hon. Alfred Emmott Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Walter Runciman Liberal
1900 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Winston Churchill b Conservative
1904 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Liberal
1906 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Albert Bright Liberal
1910 (Jan) rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir William Barton Liberal
1911 by-election style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Edmund Bartley-Denniss c Conservative
1918 style="background-color: Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" | Coalition Conservative style="background-color: Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" | Coalition Liberal
1922 style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)/meta/color" | Sir Edward Grigg National Liberal rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | William John Tout Labour
1923 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Liberal
1924 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duff Cooper Conservative
1925 by-election style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Wiggins Liberal
1929 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Rev. Gordon Lang Labour style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Wilson Labour
1931 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Anthony Crossley Conservative rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Hamilton Kerr Conservative
1935 style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" | John Dodd National Liberal
1945 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Frank Fairhurst Labour style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Leslie Hale Labour
1950 Multi member constituency abolished - see Oldham East and Oldham West

Notes:-

  • a J M Cobbett's political affiliations are complicated.[17] He had stood unsuccessfully on an all-Radical 'plague on both your houses' slate with John Fielden in 1847. He was elected in 1852 as the Radical half of an explicit Radical-Tory alliance.[18] At the 1857 election he was opposed by two Liberals and denied that he had sold out to Palmerston, asserting that the Liberal Chief Whip had no confidence in him.[19] In 1865 he stood unsuccessfully in conjunction with a Conservative,[20] opposed by two Liberals. Nonetheless, from 1852 to 1865 outside Oldham he was generally taken to be a Liberal. From 1872 to his death in 1877 he sat as a Conservative (but one calling for annual Parliaments and manhood suffrage)[21]
  • b Churchill changed his party allegiance in April 1904.
  • c Denniss changed his surname to Bartley-Denniss, when he was knighted in 1922.

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1832: Oldham[22][3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Radical Green tickYJohn Fielden 677 43.0
Radical Green tickYWilliam Cobbett 645 40.9
Whig Benjamin Heywood Bright[23] 150 9.5
Tory William Burge 101 6.4
Whig George Stephen 3 0.2
Majority 495 31.4
Turnout 848 75.0
Registered electors 1,131
Radical win (new seat)
Radical win (new seat)
General election 1835: Oldham[22][3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Radical Green tickYJohn Fielden Unopposed
Radical Green tickYWilliam Cobbett Unopposed
Registered electors 1,029
Radical hold
Radical hold

Cobbett's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 8 July 1835: Oldham[22][3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative Green tickYJohn Frederick Lees 394 48.7
Radical John Morgan Cobbett 381 47.1
Radical Feargus O'Connor 34 4.2
Majority 13 1.6
Turnout 809 78.6
Registered electors 1,029
Conservative gain from Radical
General election 1837: Oldham[22][3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Radical Green tickYWilliam Augustus Johnson 545 32.4
Radical Green tickYJohn Fielden 541 32.2
Conservative Joseph Jones 315 18.8
Conservative John Frederick Lees 279 16.6
Majority 226 13.5
Turnout 859 62.6
Registered electors 1,372
Radical hold
Radical hold

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Radical Green tickYJohn Fielden Unopposed
Radical Green tickYWilliam Augustus Johnson Unopposed
Registered electors 1,467
Radical hold
Radical hold
General election 1847: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Radical Green tickYWilliam Johnson Fox 726 27.3 N/A
Peelite Green tickYJohn Duncuft 696 26.2 N/A
Radical John Morgan Cobbett 624 23.5 N/A
Radical John Fielden 612 23.0 N/A
Turnout 1,329 (est) 78.6 (est) N/A
Registered electors 1,691
Majority 30 1.1 N/A
Radical hold Swing N/A
Majority 72 2.7 N/A
Peelite gain from Radical Swing N/A

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Radical Green tickYJohn Morgan Cobbett 957 36.8 +13.3
Peelite Green tickYJohn Duncuft 868 33.4 +7.2
Radical William Johnson Fox 777 29.9 +2.6
Turnout 1,301 (est) 68.8 (est) −9.8
Registered electors 1,890
Majority 89 3.4 +2.3
Radical hold Swing +4.9
Majority 91 3.5 +0.8
Peelite hold Swing −11.6

Duncuft's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 3 December 1852: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Radical Green tickYWilliam Johnson Fox 895 53.3 −13.4
Conservative James Heald[24] 783 46.7 +13.3
Majority 112 6.7 +3.3
Turnout 1,678 84.8 +16.0
Registered electors 1,978
Radical gain from Peelite Swing −13.3
General election 1857: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Radical Green tickYJohn Morgan Cobbett 949 34.1 −2.7
Radical Green tickYJames Platt 934 33.6 N/A
Radical William Johnson Fox 898 32.3 +2.4
Majority 36 1.3 −2.1
Turnout 1,391 (est) 66.3 (est) −2.5
Registered electors 2,098
Radical hold Swing N/A
Radical gain from Peelite Swing N/A

Platt's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 19 October 1857: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Radical William Johnson Fox Unopposed
Radical hold
General election 1859: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYWilliam Johnson Fox 1,039 35.1 +2.8
Liberal Green tickYJohn Morgan Cobbett 966 32.6 −1.5
Liberal J. T. Hibbert 955 32.3 N/A
Majority 11 0.4 −0.9
Turnout 1,480 (est) 68.8 (est) +2.5
Registered electors 2,151
Liberal hold Swing N/A
Liberal hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1860s

Fox's resignation caused a by-election.

By-election, 5 May 1862: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYJ. T. Hibbert Unopposed
Liberal hold
General election 1865: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYJ. T. Hibbert 1,104 28.1 −4.2
Liberal Green tickYJohn Platt 1,075 27.4 N/A
Liberal John Morgan Cobbett 899 22.9 −9.7
Conservative Frederick Spinks 846 21.6 N/A
Majority 176 4.5 +4.1
Turnout 1,962 (est) 85.9 (est) +17.1
Registered electors 2,285
Liberal hold Swing N/A
Liberal hold Swing N/A
General election 1868: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYJ. T. Hibbert 6,140 25.1 −3.0
Liberal Green tickYJohn Platt 6,122 25.0 −2.4
Conservative John Morgan Cobbett 6,116 25.0 +2.1
Conservative Frederick Spinks 6,084 24.9 +3.3
Majority 6 0.0 −4.5
Turnout 12,231 (est) 90.9 (est) +5.0
Registered electors 13,454
Liberal hold Swing −2.9
Liberal hold Swing −2.6

Elections in the 1870s

Platt's death caused a by-election.

1872 Oldham by-election[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Green tickYJohn Morgan Cobbett 7,278 51.0 +1.1
Liberal Edward Stanley 6,984 49.0 −1.1
Majority 294 2.1 N/A
Turnout 14,262 88.8 −2.1
Registered electors 16,063
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +1.1
General election 1874: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Green tickYFrederick Spinks 8,582 25.3 +0.4
Conservative Green tickYJohn Morgan Cobbett 8,541 25.2 +0.2
Liberal J. T. Hibbert 8,397 24.8 −0.3
Liberal Edward Stanley 8,360 24.7 −0.3
Majority 144 0.4 N/A
Turnout 16,940 (est) 91.3 (est) +0.4
Registered electors 18,560
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +0.4
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +0.3

Cobbett's death caused a by-election.

1877 Oldham by-election[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYJ. T. Hibbert 9,542 51.9 +2.4
Conservative Thomas Evans Lees[25] 8,831 48.1 −2.4
Majority 711 3.9 N/A
Turnout 18,373 90.7 −0.6
Registered electors 20,249
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +2.4

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Oldham[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYJ. T. Hibbert 10,630 27.5 +2.7
Liberal Green tickYEdward Stanley 10,409 27.0 +2.3
Conservative Frederick Spinks 8,982 23.3 −2.0
Conservative Smith Taylor-Whitehead[26] 8,593 22.3 −2.9
Majority 1,427 3.7 N/A
Turnout 19,307 (est) 91.6 (est) +0.3
Registered electors 21,084
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +2.4
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +2.6
General election 1885: Oldham[27][28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYJ. T. Hibbert 12,259 25.7 −1.8
Conservative Green tickYJames Mackenzie Maclean 11,992 25.2 +1.9
Liberal Edward Stanley 11,847 24.9 −2.1
Conservative Smith Taylor-Whitehead[26] 11,491 24.9 +1.9
Turnout 24,016 93.8 +2.2 (est)
Registered electors 25,600
Majority 768 1.5 −2.2
Liberal hold Swing −1.9
Majority 145 0.3 N/A
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +2.0
Elliot Lees
General election 1886: Oldham[27][28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Green tickYJames Mackenzie Maclean 11,606 25.8 +0.6
Conservative Green tickYElliot Lees 11,484 25.6 +1.4
Liberal J. T. Hibbert 10,921 24.3 −1.4
Liberal Joshua Cheetham 10,891 24.3 −0.6
Majority 563 1.3 +1.0
Turnout 22,608 88.3 −5.5
Registered electors 25,600
Conservative hold Swing +0.6
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +1.4

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Oldham[29][28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYJoshua Cheetham 12,619 25.6 +1.3
Liberal Green tickYJ. T. Hibbert 12,541 25.4 +1.1
Conservative Elliot Lees 12,205 24.7 −0.8
Conservative James Mackenzie Maclean 11,952 24.2 −1.6
Majority 336 0.6 N/A
Turnout 24,857 (est) 89.0 +0.7
Registered electors 27,929
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +1.1
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +1.4
Robert Ascroft
James Oswald
General election 1895: Oldham[29][28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Green tickYRobert Ascroft 13,085 26.2 +1.4
Conservative Green tickYJames Oswald 12,465 25.0 +0.8
Liberal Adam Lee 12,249 24.6 −1.0
Liberal J. T. Hibbert 12,092 24.2 −1.2
Majority 216 0.4 N/A
Turnout 25,185 (est) 87.5 −1.5
Registered electors 28,783
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +1.2
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +1.0

Ashcroft's death and Oswald's resignation caused a by-election.

Walter Runciman
James Mawdsley
1899 Oldham by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYAlfred Emmott 12,976 26.7 +2.1
Liberal Green tickYWalter Runciman 12,770 26.2 +2.0
Conservative Winston Churchill 11,477 23.6 −2.6
Conservative James Mawdsley 11,449 23.5 −1.5
Majority 1,293 2.6 N/A
Turnout 24,546 (est) 86.2 −1.3
Registered electors 28,476
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +2.4
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +1.8

Elections in the 1900s

Alfred Emmott
General election 1900: Oldham[30][28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYAlfred Emmott 12,947 25.3 +0.7
Conservative Green tickYWinston Churchill 12,931 25.3 −0.9
Liberal Walter Runciman 12,709 24.9 +0.7
Conservative Charles Birch Crisp 12,522 24.5 −0.5
Turnout 87.9 +0.4
Registered electors 29,253
Majority 425 0.8 N/A
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +0.6
Majority 222 0.4 +0.0
Conservative hold Swing −0.8
General election 1906: Oldham[30][28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYAlfred Emmott 17,397 30.3 +5.0
Liberal Green tickYJohn Bright 16,672 29.0 +4.1
Conservative Charles Birch Crisp 11,989 20.9 −3.6
Conservative E. L. Hartley 11,391 19.8 −5.5
Turnout 89.3 +1.4
Registered electors 32,387
Majority 4,683 8.1 +7.3
Liberal hold Swing +4.3
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +3.9

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Oldham[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYAlfred Emmott 19,252 30.0 −0.3
Liberal Green tickYWilliam Barton 18,840 29.4 +0.4
Conservative Joseph Hilton 13,462 21.0 +0.1
Conservative Sidney Stott 12,577 19.6 −0.2
Majority 5,378 8.4 +0.3
Turnout 91.8 +2.5
Registered electors 35,315
Liberal hold Swing −0.2
Liberal hold Swing +0.2
General election December 1910: Oldham[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYAlfred Emmott 17,108 28.1 −1.9
Liberal Green tickYWilliam Barton 16,941 27.9 −1.5
Conservative Arthur Edward Wrigley 13,440 22.1 +1.1
Conservative Edmund Bartley-Denniss 13,281 21.9 +2.3
Majority 3,501 5.8 −2.6
Turnout 86.8 −5.0
Registered electors 35,315
Liberal hold Swing −1.5
Liberal hold Swing −1.3
File:SirERBBartleyDenniss.jpg
Bartley-Denniss
1911 Oldham by-election[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Green tickYEdmund Bartley-Denniss 12,255 40.4 −3.6
Liberal Arthur Stanley 10,623 35.0 −21.0
Labour William C. Robinson 7,448 24.6 N/A
Majority 1,632 5.4 N/A
Turnout 30,326 85.1 −1.7
Registered electors 35,626
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +8.7

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;

William Barton
General election 1918: Oldham[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
C Unionist Green tickYEdmund Bartley-Denniss 26,568 34.3 +12.4
C Liberal Green tickYWilliam Barton 26,254 34.0 +6.1
Labour William C. Robinson 15,178 19.6 N/A
Liberal Walter Rea 9,323 12.1 −16.0
Turnout 54.2 −32.6
Registered electors 71,378
Majority 11,390 14.7 N/A
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +14.2
Majority 11,076 14.4 +8.6
Liberal hold Swing N/A
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

Edward Grigg
General election 1922: Oldham[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal Green tickYEdward Grigg 24,762 28.0 N/A
Labour Green tickYWilliam Tout 24,434 27.7 +8.1
Unionist Samuel Smethurst 23,200 26.2 −8.1
Liberal William Tudor Davies 9,812 11.1 −22.9
Liberal Mary Emmott 6,186 7.0 −5.1
Turnout 62.6 +8.4
National Liberal gain from Liberal Swing N/A
Majority 1,562 1.8 N/A
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +8.1
Majority 1,234 1.5 N/A
General election 1923: Oldham (2 seats) [33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Green tickYWilliam Tout 20,939 23.4 −4.3
Liberal Green tickYEdward Grigg 20,681 23.2 −4.8
Liberal William Wiggins 17,990 20.1 +9.0
Unionist W.E. Freeman 15,819 17.7 n/a
Unionist Samuel Smethurst 13,894 15.6 −10.6
Majority 2,949 3.3
Majority 4,862 5.5
Turnout 76.3 −2.5
Labour hold Swing
Liberal hold Swing
General election 1924: Oldham[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Green tickYDuff Cooper 37,419 31.2
Liberal Green tickYEdward Grigg 36,761 30.7
Labour William Tout 23,623 19.7
Labour James Wilson 22,081 18.4
Majority 11.0
Turnout 119,884
Liberal hold Swing
Unionist gain from Labour Swing
1925 Oldham by-election[35]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Green tickYWilliam Wiggins 26,325 54.8
Labour William Tout 21,702 45.2
Majority 4,623 9.6
Liberal hold Swing
General election 1929: Oldham[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Green tickYGordon Lang 34,223 26.2 +6.5
Labour Green tickYJames Wilson 32,727 25.0 +6.6
Unionist Duff Cooper 29,424 22.5 −8.7
Liberal John Dodd 20,810 15.9 −14.8
Liberal George James Jenkins 13,528 10.4 n/a
Majority 3,303 2.5 13.5
Turnout 81.2
Labour gain from Unionist Swing
Labour gain from Liberal Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Oldham[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Green tickYAnthony Crossley 50,693
Conservative Green tickYHamilton Kerr 50,395
Labour Gordon Lang 28,629
Labour James Wilson 26,631
Majority
Turnout
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
General election 1935: Oldham[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Green tickYHamilton Kerr 36,738
National Liberal Green tickYJohn Dodd 34,755
Labour Gordon Lang 34,316
Labour Matthew Burrow Farr 29,647
Liberal William Gretton Ward 8,534
Majority
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing
National Liberal gain from Conservative Swing

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Oldham[38]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Green tickYFrank Fairhurst 31,704 23.9
Labour Green tickYLeslie Hale 31,327 23.6
Conservative Hamilton Kerr 26,911 20.3
National Liberal John Dodd 24,199 18.2
Liberal James Taylor Middleton 10,365 7.8
Liberal Thomas Donald Farrell Powell 8,264 6.2
Majority 4,416 5.4
Turnout 74.6
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Labour gain from National Liberal Swing

References

  1. ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "O"
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Sources

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