Stalybridge and Hyde
Stalybridge and Hyde is a
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 constituency is one of three covering the
metropolitan borough of
Tameside. It covers the east of the borough, including the former
municipal boroughs of
Stalybridge,
Hyde and
Mossley, as well as
Hollingworth and
Mottram in Longdendale. Until 1997 it also included the former municipal borough of Dukinfield which now forms part of the
Denton and Reddish constituency.
The constituency is a largely working-class area, and is a safe
Labour seat, with them having held it since
1945. Its current
member of Parliament is
James Purnell, a former
Downing Street special advisor, who was first elected at the
2001 general election.
Before 1918, see the two predecessor constiuencies: Hyde and also Stalybridge*
1918 –
1922: Sir
John Wood,
Conservative*
1922 –
1923:
John Phillips Rhodes,
Conservative*
1923 –
1924: John Lincoln Tattersall,
Labour*
1924 –
1929:
Edmund Walter Hanbury Wood,
Conservative*
1929 –
1931: Hugh Hartley Lawrie,
Labour*
1931 –
1935:
Sydney Hope,
Conservative*
1935 –
1937:
Philip Russell Rendel Dunne,
Conservative*
1937 –
1945:
Horace Trevor-Cox,
Conservative*
1945 –
1951: Rev.
Gordon Lang,
Labour*
1951 –
1970:
Fred Blackburn,
Labour*
1970 –
2001:
Tom Pendry,
Labour*
2001 –
present:
James Purnell,
Labour*
List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester
