Rochdale (UK Parliament constituency)

Rochdale
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Rochdale in Greater Manchester.
Location of Greater Manchester within England.
County	Greater Manchester
Electorate	77,699 (December 2010)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of parliament	Simon Danczuk (Independent)
Number of members	One
1832–1950
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Created from	Lancashire
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Rochdale is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The current MP is Simon Danczuk, who was first elected as a Labour MP in 2010. He currently sits as an independent, following his suspension by the party in December 2015.^[2]

Boundaries

1918-1983: The County Borough of Rochdale.

1983-1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale wards of Balderstone, Brimrod and Deeplish, Castleton, Central and Falinge, Healey, Newbold, Norden and Bamford, Smallbridge and Wardleworth, and Spotland.

1997-2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale wards of Balderstone, Brimrod and Deeplish, Central and Falinge, Healey, Littleborough, Newbold, Smallbridge and Wardleworth, Spotland, and Wardle.

2010–present: The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale wards of Balderstone and Kirkholt, Central Rochdale, Healey, Kingsway, Littleborough Lakeside, Milkstone and Deeplish, Milnrow and Newhey, Smallbridge and Firgrove, Spotland and Falinge, and Wardle and West Littleborough.

The constituency is one of two covering the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. It contains most of the town of Rochdale itself as well as Littleborough, Wardle and some of the surrounding rural area.

For the 2010 general election, the seat gained the villages of Milnrow and Newhey from Oldham East and Saddleworth and lost the areas of Sudden, Marland, and part of Norden to Heywood and Middleton, a 19.16% boundary change. Those changes made the seat a notional Labour victory in the Rallings and Thrasher figures^[3] which were used by the Press Association for determining gains, losses and swings. However, other predictions by political commentator Martin Baxter^[4] showed the seat maintaining a narrow Lib Dem majority.

History

Rochdale was one of the constituencies created by the Reform Act of 1832, and has been a Labour/Liberal Democrat marginal for many years, although it was held by the Conservatives for part of the 1950s, until a 1958 by-election.

It was held for two decades by Cyril Smith, first of the Liberal Party and then of the Liberal Democrats. He won a by-election in 1972, taking the seat from Labour, and held it until his retirement in 1992. A native Rochdalian and a former Labour Party member himself, he had a substantial personal vote which helped him retain his seat. It has since emerged that Smith was a serial child abuser.^[5]

After his retirement, contests have been tighter. The Liberal Democrats held the seat at first, with Liz Lynne winning at the 1992 general election, only to lose to Labour's Lorna Fitzsimons at the 1997 election. However, they regained the seat at the 2005 election, with Paul Rowen defeating Fitzsimons. In 2010, the town was brought to national attention when then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown was caught on a tape recording describing a local woman, Gillian Duffy, as a "bigot" after having a conversation with her while campaigning (later described as Bigotgate by the UK media), but despite the unfavourable publicity, Labour still managed to narrowly win the seat from the Liberal Democrats, and in 2015 achieved their highest majority in the seat's history, with the Liberal Democrats falling to fourth place.

Members of Parliament

	Member^[6]	Party
1832	John Fenton	Liberal
1835	John Entwistle	Conservative
1837	John Fenton	Liberal
1841	William Sharman Crawford	Liberal
1852	Edward Miall	Liberal
1857	Sir Alexander Ramsay, Bt.	Liberal
1859	Richard Cobden	Liberal
1865	Thomas Bayley Potter	Liberal
1895	Clement Royds	Conservative
1906	Alexander Gordon Cummins Harvey	Liberal
1918	Alfred Law	Coalition Conservative
1922	Stanley Burgess	Labour
1923	Ramsay Muir	Liberal
1924	William Thomas Kelly	Labour
1931	Thomas Jesson	Conservative
1935	William Thomas Kelly	Labour
1940 by-election	Hyacinth Morgan	Labour
1950	Joseph Hale	Labour
1951	Wentworth Schofield	Conservative
1958 by-election	Jack McCann	Labour
1972 by-election	Sir Cyril Smith	Liberal
1988	Sir Cyril Smith	Liberal Democrats
1992	Liz Lynne	Liberal Democrats
1997	Lorna Fitzsimons	Labour
2005	Paul Rowen	Liberal Democrats
2010	Simon Danczuk	Labour
2015	Simon Danczuk	Independent Labour^[7]

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Rochdale^[8]^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Simon Danczuk	20,961	46.1	+9.8
	UKIP	Mohammed Masud	8,519	18.8	+14.4
	Conservative	Azi Ahmed	7,742	17.0	-1.0
	Liberal Democrat	Andy Kelly	4,667	10.3	-24.2
	Rochdale First	Farooq Ahmed	1,535	3.4	+3.4
	Green	Mark Hollinrake	1,382	3.0	+3.0
	National Front	Kevin Bryan	433	1.0	-3.9
	Islam Zinda Baad Platform	Mohammed Salim	191	0.4	-0.8
Majority			12,442	27.4	+25.5
Turnout			45,430	57.4	-0.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2010: Rochdale^[10]^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Simon Danczuk	16,699	36.4	−4.5
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Rowen	15,810	34.4	−6.1
	Conservative	Mudasir Dean	8,305	18.1	+7.6
	National Front	Chris Jackson	2,236	4.9	N/A
	UKIP	Colin Denby	1,999	4.4	+3.0
	Islam Zinda Baad Platform	Mohammed Salim	545	1.2	+0.3
	Independent	John Whitehead	313	0.7	N/A
Majority			889	1.9	+1.6
Turnout			45,907	58.1	+0.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Note: boundary changes prior to the 2010 election made Rochdale a notionally Labour held seat.

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Rochdale^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Rowen	16,787	41.1	+6.2
	Labour	Lorna Fitzsimons	16,345	40.0	−9.2
	Conservative	Khalid Hussain	4,270	10.5	−2.9
	BNP	Derek Adams	1,773	4.3	+2.9
	UKIP	John Whittaker	499	1.2
	Green	Samir Chatterjee	448	1.1	−0.7
	Islam Zinda Baad Platform	Mohammed Salim	361	0.9
	Veritas	Carl Faulkner	353	0.9
Majority			444	1.1
Turnout			40,834	58.4	+1.7
	Liberal Democrat gain from Labour		Swing	+7.7

General Election 2001: Rochdale^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Lorna Fitzsimons	19,406	49.2	−0.2
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Rowen	13,751	34.9	−5.1
	Conservative	Elaina Cohen	5,274	13.4	+4.6
	Green	Nick Harvey	728	1.8	N/A
	Independent	Mohammed Salim	253	0.6	+0.2
Majority			5,655	14.3
Turnout			39,412	56.7	−13.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Rochdale^[14]^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Lorna Fitzsimons	23,758	49.4
	Liberal Democrat	Liz Lynne	19,213	40.0
	Conservative	Mervyn Turnberg	4,237	8.8
	BNP	Gary Bergin	653	1.4	+0.2
	Islam Zinda Baad Platform	Mohammed Salim	221	0.5
Majority			4,545	9.4
Turnout			48,082	70.0
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing	+4.8

General Election 1992: Rochdale^[16]^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Liz Lynne	22,776	42.8	−0.6
	Labour	David Williams	20,937	39.4	+1.4
	Conservative	Duncan Goldie-Scott	8,626	16.2	−2.4
	BNP	Ken Henderson	620	1.2	N/A
	Natural Law	Vincent J. Lucker	221	0.4	N/A
Majority			1,839	3.5	−1.9
Turnout			53,170	76.5	+1.9
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	−1.0

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Rochdale^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Cyril Smith	22,245	43.4	−2.7
	Labour	Arthur David Williams	19,466	38.0	+7.9
	Conservative	Clive William Condie	9,561	18.6	−3.7
Majority			2,779	5.4	−10.6
Turnout			51,272	74.6	+3.8
	Liberal hold		Swing	−5.3

General Election 1983: Rochdale^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Cyril Smith	21,858	46.1	+1.1
	Labour	Mrs. Valerie E. Broon	14,271	30.1	−4.2
	Conservative	Alan D'A. Fearn	10,616	22.4	+3.1
	National Front	Peter Barker	463	1.0	-0.4
	Unemployed Party	Peter B. Courtney	204	0.4	N/A
Majority			7,587	16.0	+5.3
Turnout			47,412	70.8	-2.9
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Cyril Smith	22,172	45.0
	Labour	John Connell	16,878	34.3
	Conservative	Iain Sutherland Picton	9,494	19.3
	National Front	James Merrick	690	1.4
Majority			5,294	10.8
Turnout				73.66
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Cyril Smith	20,092	42.66
	Labour	John Connell	17,339	36.81
	Conservative	Rochfort Young	7,740	16.43
	National Front	Michael W. Sellors	1,927	4.09
Majority			2,753	5.85
Turnout				70.27
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Cyril Smith	25,266	49.11
	Labour	Lawrence Cunliffe	16,367	31.81
	Conservative	Miss Lillian Green	7,933	15.42
	National Front	Michael W. Sellors	1,885	3.66
Majority			8,899	17.30
Turnout				77.38
	Liberal hold		Swing

Rochdale by-election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Cyril Smith	19,296	42.3	+11.9
	Labour	Lawrence Cunliffe	14,203	31.1	-10.5
	Conservative	David Austin Trippier	8,060	17.7	-10.3
	Independent	James Merrick	4,074	8.9	N/A
Majority			5,093	11.2	N/A
Turnout				69.1	-3.7
Registered electors			66,081
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1970: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Jack McCann	19,247	41.57
	Liberal	Cyril Smith	14,076	30.40	+11.1
	Conservative	Mark Andrew	12,978	28.03
Majority			5,171	11.17
Turnout				72.86
	Labour hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jack McCann	24,481	52.39
	Conservative	Edward G.L. Collins	13,239	28.33
	Liberal	Beatrice Nancy Seear	9,004	19.27
Majority			11,242	24.06
Turnout				78.96
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1964: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jack McCann	22,927	46.69
	Liberal	Dr Thomas Lyrian Hobday	14,212	28.94
	Conservative	Tom Normanton	11,968	24.37
Majority			8,715	17.75
Turnout				82.26
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jack McCann	21,689	41.47
	Liberal	Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy	18,949	36.23
	Conservative	Tom Normanton	11,665	22.30
Majority			2,740	5.24
Turnout				85.47
	Labour hold		Swing

Rochdale by-election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Jack McCann	22,133	44.7	−3.8
	Liberal	Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy	17,603	35.5	N/A
	Conservative	John E. Parkinson	9,827	19.8	−31.7
Majority			4,530	9.1	+12.2
Turnout			49,563
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+14.0

General Election 1955: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Wentworth Schofield	26,518	51.5	+1.1
	Labour	Jack McCann	24,928	48.5	−1.1
Majority			1,590	3.1	+2.3
Turnout			51,446	82.8	−2.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.1

General Election 1951: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Wentworth Schofield	27,797	50.41
	Labour	Joseph Hale	27,343	49.59
Majority			454	0.82
Turnout				85.66
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1950: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Joseph Hale	25,484	44.92
	Conservative	Wentworth Schofield	21,208	37.38
	Liberal	Roger Thomas Baldwin Fulford	10,042	17.70
Majority			4,276	7.54
Turnout				87.90
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Hyacinth Bernard Wenceslaus Morgan	22,047	44.89
	Conservative	Edward May Nicol	16,852	34.31
	Liberal	Charles Gordon Cummins Harvey	10,211	20.79
Majority			5,195	10.58
Turnout				80.68
	Labour hold		Swing

Rochdale by-election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Hyacinth Bernard Wenceslaus Morgan	Unopposed
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	William Thomas Kelly	22,281	41.20
	Conservative	W. Gordon Murray	20,486	37.88
	Liberal	George Elliott Dodds	11,311	20.92
Majority			1,795	3.32
Turnout				84.69
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1931: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Thomas Edward Jesson	25,346	45.06
	Labour	William Thomas Kelly	18,329	32.59
	Liberal	George Elliott Dodds	12,572	22.35
Majority			7,017	12.48
Turnout				88.79
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	William Thomas Kelly	22,060	40.2	+6.4
	Liberal	John Ramsay Bryce Muir	16,957	30.8	-2.7
	Unionist	John Haslam	15,962	29.0	-3.7
Majority			5,103	9.4	+9.1
Turnout			54,979	87.6	-2.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.5

General Election 1924: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	William Thomas Kelly	14,609	33.8	+1.2
	Liberal	John Ramsay Bryce Muir	14,492	33.5	-2.9
	Unionist	Thomas Edward Jesson	14,112	32.7	+1.7
Majority			117	0.3
Turnout			43,213	90.3	+2.5
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1923: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	John Ramsay Bryce Muir	15,087	36.4	+7.2
	Labour	Stanley Burgess	13,525	32.6	-6.2
	Unionist	Nicholas Cockshutt	12,845	31.0	-1.0
Majority			1,562	3.8	10.6
Turnout			41,457	87.8	+0.7
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1922: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Stanley Burgess	15,774	38.8	+22.3
	Unionist	Alfred Joseph Law	13,006	32.0	-15.6
	Liberal	John Ramsay Bryce Muir	11,894	29.2	+7.7
Majority			2,768	6.8
Turnout			40,674	87.1	+22.6
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

Vivian Phillipps

General Election 1918: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Alfred Joseph Law	14,299	47.6	+6.7
	Liberal	Henry Vivian Phillipps	6,452	21.5	-23.1
	Labour	Richard Henry Tawney	4,956	16.5
	National Democratic	John Joseph Terrett	2,358	7.8
	National Party	John Fitzgerald Jones	1,992	6.6
Majority			7,847	26.1
Turnout			30,057	64.5	-28.5
	Coalition Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

endorsed by coalition government

General Election December 1910: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Alexander Gordon Cummins Harvey	5,373	44.6	-4.2
	Conservative	Nicholas Cockshutt	4,850	40.9	+2.3
	Social Democratic Federation	David Daniel Irving	1,901	14.5	+1.9
Majority			477	3.7	-6.5
Turnout			11,124	88.0	-5.5
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election January 1910: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Alexander Gordon Cummins Harvey	6,809	48.8	+2.9
	Conservative	William Boyd Boyd-Carpenter	5,581	38.6	+2.0
	Social Democratic Federation	David Daniel Irving	1,755	12.6
Majority			1,428	10.2	-1.1
Turnout			13,945	93.5	+0.5
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1906: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Alexander Gordon Cummins Harvey	5,912	45.9	0.0
	Conservative	Clement Molyneux Royds	4,449	34.6	-11.5
	Independent Labour	Samuel George Hobson	2,506	19.5
Majority			1,463	11.3
Turnout			12,867	93.0	+5.9
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1900: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Clement Molyneux Royds	5,204	46.1	0.0
	Liberal	Alexander Gordon Cummins Harvey	5,185	45.9	+4.0
	Labour	Charles Allen Clarke	901	8.0
Majority			19	0.2	-4.0
Turnout			11,290	87.1	-1.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1895: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Clement Molyneux Royds	4,781	46.1	+1.0
	Liberal	William Leatham Bright	4,359	41.9	-13.0
	Ind. Labour Party	George Nicoll Barnes	1,251	12.0
Majority			422	4.2
Turnout			10,391	88.2	+2.4
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1892: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Thomas Bayley Potter	5,460	54.9	-2.7
	Conservative	Clement Molyneux Royds	4,480	45.1	+2.7
Majority			980	9.8	-5.4
Turnout			9,940	85.8	+9.8
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1886: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Thomas Bayley Potter	4,738	57.6	+1.9
	Conservative	J A R Marriott	3,481	42.4	-1.9
Majority			1,257	15.2	+3.8
Turnout			9,969	76.0	-16.2
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1885: Rochdale
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Thomas Bayley Potter	5,552	55.7
	Conservative	E Lees	4,417	44.3
Majority			1,135	11.4
Turnout			9,969	92.2
	Liberal hold		Swing

Notes and references

↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ "Labour's Simon Danczuk suspended". BBC News. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
↑ Press Association Notional 2005 election results
↑ Martin Baxter's Electoral Calculus
↑ "Sir Cyril Smith: Former MP sexually abused boys, police say". BBC News. 27 November 2012.
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1)
↑ "Labour's Simon Danczuk suspended". BBC News. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "Rochdale". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ BBC - Election 2010 - Rochdale
↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Rochdale". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

Sources

Election results, 1950–1997
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918

Constituencies in North West England (75)

Labour (51)	Ashton-under-Lyne Barrow and Furness Birkenhead Blackburn Blackley and Broughton Blackpool South Bolton North East Bolton South East Bootle Burnley Bury South Chorley City of Chester Copeland Denton and Reddish Ellesmere Port and Neston Garston and Halewood Halton Heywood and Middleton Hyndburn Knowsley Lancaster and Fleetwood Leigh Liverpool Riverside Liverpool Walton Liverpool Wavertree Liverpool West Derby Makerfield Manchester Central Manchester Gorton Manchester Withington Oldham East and Saddleworth Oldham West and Royton Preston Rochdale St Helens North St Helens South and Whiston Salford and Eccles Sefton Central Stalybridge and Hyde Stockport Stretford and Urmston Wallasey Warrington North West Lancashire Wigan Wirral South Wirral West Workington Worsley and Eccles South Wythenshawe and Sale East

Conservative (22)	Altrincham and Sale West Blackpool North and Cleveleys Bolton West Bury North Carlisle Cheadle Congleton Crewe and Nantwich Eddisbury Fylde Hazel Grove Macclesfield Morecambe and Lunesdale Pendle Penrith and The Border Ribble Valley Rossendale and Darwen South Ribble Tatton Warrington South Weaver Vale Wyre and Preston North

Liberal Democrats (2)	Southport Westmorland and Lonsdale

North West England European constituency: Conservative (2) Labour (3) UKIP (3)

Coordinates: 53°37′N 2°10′W / 53.61°N 2.16°W / 53.61; -2.16

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