Hendon North (UK Parliament constituency)

Hendon North was a constituency in the former Municipal Borough of Hendon (later subsumed into the London Borough of Barnet) which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1945 general election as the existing Hendon constituency was too large (the estimated electorate in 1941 was 217,900 [2]), and lasted until the 1997 general election when the London Borough of Barnet's Parliamentary representation was reduced from four seats to three.

Hendon North constituency within the parliamentary county of Middlesex, showing boundaries used from 1945 to 1974

Hendon North
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Greater London
Electorate	51,514 (1992)[1]
1945–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Hendon and Hertsmere
Created from	Hendon

Boundaries

1945–1974: The Municipal Borough of Hendon wards of Burnt Oak, Edgware, Mill Hill, and West Hendon.

1974–1997: The London Borough of Barnet wards of Burnt Oak, Colindale, Edgware, Hale, and Mill Hill.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[3]	Party
	1945	Barbara Ayrton-Gould	Labour
	1950	Ian Orr-Ewing	Conservative
	1970	John Gorst	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Hendon North[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Michael Gorst	20,569	53.2	−2.4
	Labour	D Hill	13,447	34.8	+9.3
	Liberal Democrats	P Kemp	4,136	10.7	−8.2
	Green	P Duncan	430	1.1	New
	Natural Law	P Orr	95	0.2	New
Majority			7,122	18.4	-11.8
Turnout			38,677	75.1	+9.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Hendon North [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Michael Gorst	20,155	55.6	+6.7
	Labour	Mrs. Jenny Rachel Manson	9,223	25.5	+1.8
	SDP	Mrs. Elisabeth Jean Davies	6,859	18.9	-6.7
Majority			10,932	30.2	+5.9
Turnout			36,237	65.8	+2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1983: Hendon North[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Michael Gorst	18,499	49.9	-2.2
	SDP	K Craig	9,474	25.6	New
	Labour	A M Williams	8,786	23.7	-12.3
	Nationalist Party	Bernard Franklin	194	0.5	New
	Independent	R Clayton	116	0.3	New
Majority			9,025	24.3	+8.2
Turnout			37,068	68.0	-5.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Hendon North [7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Michael Gorst	20,766	52.1	+7.6
	Labour	Frank Arthur Cooper	14,374	36.0	-3.7
	Liberal	Christopher Perkin	4,113	10.3	-5.6
	National Front	Bernard Franklyn	638	1.6	New
Majority			6,392	16.1	+11.3
Turnout			39,891	73.8	+1.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election October 1974: Hendon North [8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Michael Gorst	16,299	44.55
	Labour	John Stanley Champion	14,549	39.68
	Liberal	I Senior	5,822	15.88
Majority			1,750	4.77
Turnout			36,670	72.24
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.79

General election February 1974: Hendon North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Michael Gorst	17,285	42.63
	Labour	John Stanley Champion	14,673	36.19
	Liberal	David Edwards	8,585	6.44
Majority			2,612	6.44
Turnout			31,958	80.91
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.1

General election 1970: Hendon North [9][10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Michael Gorst	18,192	49.3	+2.9
	Labour	Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine	15,013	40.7	-4.1
	Liberal	Gerald Cass	3,704	10.0	+1.2
Majority			3,179	8.6	+7.1
Turnout			36,909	70.9	-9.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: Hendon North [11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Charles Ian Orr-Ewing	18,468	46.36
	Labour	Ernest Wistrich	17,868	44.85
	Liberal	Gerald Cass	3,503	8.79
Majority			600	1.51
Turnout			39,839	80.02
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1964: Hendon North [12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Charles Ian Orr-Ewing	17,784	44.3	-6.5
	Labour	Alan Jinkinson	16,660	41.5	+3.0
	Liberal	John Holmes	5,719	14.2	+3.5
Majority			1,124	2.8	-9.6
Turnout			40,163
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: Hendon North [14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Charles Ian Orr-Ewing	21,898	50.85
	Labour Co-op	Cecil Genese	16,566	38.47
	Liberal	Lady Hills	4,598	10.68
Majority			5,332	12.38
Turnout			43,062	81.67
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1955: Hendon North [15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Charles Ian Orr-Ewing	21,934	50.69
	Labour	Elizabeth Monkhouse	17,874	41.30
	Liberal	Donald Barrington-Hudson	3,467	8.01
Majority			4,060	9.39
Turnout			43,275	80.66
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1951: Hendon North [16][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Charles Ian Orr-Ewing	23,329	49.23
	Labour	Finlay Rea	20,738	43.76
	Liberal	Kenneth Jupp	3,319	7.00
Majority			2,591	5.47
Turnout			47,386	86.28
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1950: Hendon North [18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Charles Ian Orr-Ewing	20,755	44.4	+8.9
	Labour	Barbara Ayrton-Gould	18,500	39.6	-8.0
	Liberal	Edward Martell	6,575	14.1	-2.8
	Communist	Marjorie Pollitt[19]	918	2.0	New
Majority			2,225	4.8	N/A
Turnout			46,748	86.3	+11.2
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Hendon North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Barbara Ayrton-Gould	18,251	47.61
	Conservative	EWC Flavell	13,607	35.49
	Liberal	FA Sellers	6,478	16.90
Majority			4,644	12.12
Turnout			38,336	75.09
	Labour win

Notes and references

1. "'Hendon North', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWebProject. Cognitive Computing Limited. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
2. The Guinness Book Of Records 1980
3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)
4. Whitaker's Almanack 1994
5. Whitaker's Almanack 1990
6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2010-03-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
7. UK General Election results May 1979 at politicsresources.net
8. UK General Election results October 1974 at politicsresources.net
9. Whitaker's Almanack 1972
10. The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1970.
11. The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1966.
12. Whitaker's Almanack 1965
13. The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1964.
14. The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1959.
15. The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1955.
16. Whitaker's Almanack 1951
17. The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1951.
18. Whitaker's Almanack 1951
19. "Results". Aberdeen Press and Journal Aberdeenshire. 24 February 1950. Retrieved 22 April 2017.