Bexley | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1945–February 1974 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Chislehurst, Dartford |
Replaced by | Bexleyheath, Sidcup |
Bexley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Bexley district of what is now south-east London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
History
The constituency was created for the 1945 general election, from parts of the Chislehurst and Dartford seats, and abolished for the 1974 general election and replaced by two new constituencies of Bexleyheath and Sidcup.
The constituency's boundaries were co-terminous with those of the Municipal Borough of Bexley.
The MP when the constituency was abolished, the then Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, fought and won the new Sidcup constituency in 1974. He went on to represent the new seat of Old Bexley and Sidcup from 1983 until he retired from parliament in 2001 after being an MP for 50 years.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1945 | Jennie Adamson | Labour | Previously MP for Dartford from 1937; resigned 1946 | |
1946 by-election | Ashley Bramall | Labour | ||
1950 | Rt Hon Edward Heath | Conservative | Leader of the Conservative Party 1965–1975; Prime Minister 1970–1974; subsequently MP for Sidcup | |
Feb 1974 | constituency abolished: see Bexleyheath & Sidcup |
Election results
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jennie Adamson | 24,686 | 56.93 | ||
Conservative | John Lockwood | 12,923 | 29.80 | ||
Liberal | Ward Smith | 5,750 | 13.26 | ||
Majority | 11,763 | 27.13 | |||
Turnout | 43,359 | 76.65 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ashley Bramall | 19,759 | 52.46 | -4.47 | |
Conservative | John Lockwood | 17,908 | 47.54 | +17.74 | |
Majority | 1,851 | 4.92 | -22.21 | ||
Turnout | 37,667 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -11.1 | |||
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Heath | 25,854 | 46.0 | +16.2 | |
Labour | Ashley Bramall | 25,721 | 45.7 | -11.2 | |
Liberal | Mary Edith Hart | 4,186 | 7.4 | -5.9 | |
Communist | Charlie Job[1] | 481 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 133 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 56,242 | 88.7 | +12.1 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +13.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Heath | 29,069 | 51.45 | +4.57 | |
Labour | Ashley Bramall | 27,430 | 48.55 | +2.82 | |
Majority | 1,639 | 2.99 | +2.75 | ||
Turnout | 56,499 | 87.80 | -0.87 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.86 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Heath | 28,610 | 54.27 | +2.73 | |
Labour | Rubeigh James Minney | 24,111 | 45.73 | -2.82 | |
Majority | 4,499 | 8.54 | +5.55 | ||
Turnout | 42,721 | 82.55 | -5.25 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.76 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Heath | 32,025 | 57.79 | +3.52 | |
Labour | Ashley Bramall | 23,392 | 42.21 | -3.52 | |
Majority | 8,633 | 15.58 | +7.04 | ||
Turnout | 55,517 | 85.38 | -2.83 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.52 | |||
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Heath | 25,716 | 47.4 | -10.4 | |
Labour | Leslie Leonard Reeves | 21,127 | 38.9 | -3.3 | |
Liberal | Peter L. MacArthur | 6,161 | 11.4 | New | |
Anti-Common Market League | John Paul | 1,263 | 2.3 | New | |
Majority | 4,589 | 8.5 | -7.1 | ||
Turnout | 54,227 | 84.5 | -0.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -3.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Heath | 26,377 | 48.1 | +0.7 | |
Labour | Russell L. Butler | 24,044 | 43.9 | +5.0 | |
Liberal | Richard Faulkner Lloyd | 4,405 | 8.0 | −3.4 | |
Majority | 2,333 | 4.2 | -4.3 | ||
Turnout | 54,826 | 85.8 | +1.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.1 | |||
Election in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Heath | 27,075 | 53.0 | +4.9 | |
Labour | John Cartwright | 19,017 | 37.2 | −6.7 | |
Liberal | Edward Harrison | 3,222 | 6.3 | −1.7 | |
Independent | Edward James Robert Lambert Heath | 938 | 1.8 | New | |
Ind. Conservative | Michael Paul Coney | 833 | 1.6 | New | |
Majority | 8,058 | 15.8 | +11.6 | ||
Turnout | 51,085 | 76.2 | −9.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.8 | |||
References
- Notes
- ↑ Stevenson, Graham. "Job Charlie". Archived from the original on 17 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.