| Heywood and Royton | |
| Type: | Borough |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Elects Howmany: | one |
| Previous: | Heywood and Radcliffe and Royton[1] |
| Next: | Littleborough & Saddleworth, Heywood & Middleton, Oldham Central & Royton, Rossendale & Darwen and Rochdale[2] |
Heywood and Royton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Heywood and Royton districts in the north-west of Greater Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when its territory was largely divided between the new constituencies of Heywood & Middleton and Oldham Central & Royton.
The Borough of Heywood, and the Urban Districts of Crompton, Littleborough, Milnrow, Royton, Wardle, and Whitworth.
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Sir Harold Sutcliffe | Conservative | ||
| 1955 | Tony Leavey | |||
| 1964 | Joel Barnett | Labour | ||
| 1983 | constituency abolished: see Heywood and Middleton & Oldham Central and Royton | |||