Election 97

Stalybridge and Hyde

Current MP Tom Pendry
Conservative 97 10,557
Labour 97 25,363
LibDem 97 5,169
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 0
Elected party
Stalybridge and Hyde

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Stalybridge and Hyde
Conservative 92 17,708
Labour 92 25,435
LibDem 92 4,443
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 1,693
Elected party Labour

This Cheshire seat consists of the south-eastern part of the metropolitan borough of Tameside. It is more working-class than average, and it has a higher percentage of employment in manufacturing industry than any other North Western seat. Although Stalybridge and Hyde has become a safe Labour side, and has not fallen to the Tories since before the second world war, it was marginal in the 1950s, held with three-figure majorities. Like many northern urban seats, it has swung away from the Tories in recent decades, and its MP since 1970, Tom Pendry, held it by over 4,000 even in Labour's annus horribilis of 1983. Some minor boundary changes will not trouble Pendry much.


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