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Spennymoor was a county constituency centred on the town of Spennymoor in County Durham. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
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History
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Boundaries
The Urban Districts of Brandon and Byshottles, Crook, Spennymoor, Tow Law, and Wellington, in the Rural District of Auckland the civil parishes of Helmington Row, Hunwick and Helmington, and North Bedburn, in the Rural District of Durham the civil parish of Brancepeth, and in the Rural District of Lanchester the civil parish of Hedleyhope.
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1939/40:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;