Members of Parliament
The constituency elected only Labour MPs since 1905, the longest run (with Gower and Makerfield) of any UK constituency. From 1885 to 1906, it had returned Liberal-Labour MPs.
Ed Balls, the former Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, represented the seat from the 2005 general election until 2010 when it was abolished.
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Benjamin Pickard | Lib-Lab | |
| 1904 by-election | William Parrott | Lib-Lab | |
| 1905 by-election | Frederick Hall | Lib-Lab then Labour | |
| 1933 by-election | Tom Smith | Labour | |
| 1947 by-election | George Sylvester | Labour | |
| 1950 | Thomas Brooks | Labour | |
| 1951 | Albert Roberts | Labour | |
| 1983 | Bill O'Brien | Labour | |
| 2005 | Ed Balls | Labour Co-op | |
| 2010 | constituency abolished : see Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford and Morley and Outwood |
||
Read more about this topic: Normanton (UK Parliament Constituency)
Famous quotes related to members of parliament:
“The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)