Michael Rhodes
2023-06-26 14:21:31 UTC
Harold Elletson, who died 23 June 2023, aged 62, was the former Conservative MP for Blackpool North.
https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/people/tributes-paid-to-former-blackpool-north-mp-harold-elletson-who-has-died-in-berlin-aged-62-4196997
Elletson unsuccessfully contested Burnley for the Conservative Party in the 1987 general election, before becoming Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackpool North in 1992. However, in his 1997 bid for re-election in the new Blackpool North and Fleetwood constituency, he lost to Labour's Joan Humble by 8,946 votes.
https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/people/tributes-paid-to-former-blackpool-north-mp-harold-elletson-who-has-died-in-berlin-aged-62-4196997
Elletson unsuccessfully contested Burnley for the Conservative Party in the 1987 general election, before becoming Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackpool North in 1992. However, in his 1997 bid for re-election in the new Blackpool North and Fleetwood constituency, he lost to Labour's Joan Humble by 8,946 votes.