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(Top) 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 3.1 Elections in the 1980s 3.2 Elections in the 1990s 4 See also 5 Notes and references

Wyre (UK Parliament constituency)

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Wyre
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
County	Lancashire
1983–1997
Seats	One
Created from	Fylde North
Replaced by	Lancaster and Wyre

53°59′06″N 2°45′47″W / 53.985°N 2.763°W / 53.985; -2.763

Wyre was a parliamentary constituency in the Wyre district of Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election. It was then partially replaced by the new constituency of Lancaster and Wyre.

Boundaries

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The Borough of Wyre wards of Bailey, Bourne, Breck, Carleton, Cleveleys Park, Hambleton, Hardhorn, High Cross, Jubilee, Mount, Norcross, Park, Pharos, Preesall, Rossall, Staina, Tithebarn, Victoria, and Warren.

Members of Parliament

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	Member^[1]	Party
1983	Sir Walter Clegg	Conservative
1987	Keith Mans	Conservative
1997	constituency abolished

Elections

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Elections in the 1980s

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General election 1983: Wyre^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Walter Clegg	26,559	56.4
	SDP	Iain Murdoch	11,748	25.0
	Labour	William Goldsmith	8,743	18.6
Majority			14,811	31.4
Turnout			47,050	71.4
	Conservative win (new seat)

General election 1987: Wyre^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Keith Mans	26,800	53.1	−3.3
	SDP	Iain Murdoch	12,139	24.0	−1.0
	Labour	Paul Ainscough	10,725	21.2	+2.6
	Green	Arthur Brown	874	1.7	New
Majority			14,661	29.1	−2.3
Turnout			50,538	75.4	+4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.2

Elections in the 1990s

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General election 1992: Wyre^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Keith Mans	29,449	54.6	+1.5
	Labour	David Borrow	17,785	33.0	+11.8
	Liberal Democrats	John Ault	6,420	11.9	−12.1
	Natural Law	Roger Perry	260	0.5	New
Majority			11,664	21.6	−7.5
Turnout			53,914	79.5	+4.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	−5.1

Notes and references

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^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)

^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.

^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.

^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.

^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

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