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Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody (née Phillips; 12 December 1930 – 17 April 2008) was a British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter from 1966 to 1970, and then for Crewe (later Crewe and Nantwich) from February 1974 to her death in 2008. [1]
Crewe and Nantwich was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district with borough status in Cheshire, England. It had a population (2001 census) of 111,007.
The by-election was called following the death on 17 April 2008 of the sitting MP Gwyneth Dunwoody. [2] The timing of the election caused controversy as, by convention, by-elections are not moved until after the funeral of the deceased Member of Parliament, which drew protests from Conservative and Liberal Democrat members in the House of Commons.
A promising schoolboy player who represented the Cheshire county side and had trials for England schoolboys, Tagg originally joined Crewe Alexandra in October 1937 as an inside forward. His first team debut was on 15 January 1938 against Oldham Athletic , and he scored his first senior goal three weeks later, against Rochdale on 5 February 1938 ...
1950–1955: The Municipal Borough of Crewe, the Urban District of Nantwich, and the Rural District of Nantwich. [3] Gained the remainder of the Rural District of Nantwich, including Audlem, from the abolished constituency of Eddisbury. Sandbach and the part of the Rural District of Congleton transferred to Knutsford.
Laura Smith (born 16 March 1985) [1] is a British politician who served as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Crewe and Nantwich from 2017 to 2019. [2] In 2017, she defeated the incumbent Conservative Edward Timpson by 48 votes, before losing her seat at the 2019 general election.
It combined parts of the abolished separate constituencies of Crewe and Nantwich and reunited the towns of Crewe and Nantwich in one constituency. The seat is marginal as Crewe tends to vote Labour, and Nantwich and the surrounding Cheshire villages are more Conservative-inclined. Its residents are slightly poorer than the UK average. [2]
Nantwich was created for the 1955 general election from parts of the Crewe and Northwich constituencies.. It was abolished following the reorganisation of local authorities in 1974 by the Third Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for the 1983 general election, when it was divided between the re-established constituency of Eddisbury and the new constituencies of Crewe and Nantwich ...