UK Elections Info

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Bill Rodgers

Born: 28 October 1928

Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank - 31 December 1991

Member of Privy Council - 25 June 1975

husband of Sylvia Szulman

Magdalen College, Oxford

Sudley Road Council School

Quarry Bank High School, Liverpool

Under Secretary of State, Department of Economic Affairs	October 1964	1967
Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	1967	1968
Minister of State, Board of Trade	1968	October 1969
Minister of State, Treasury	October 1969	June 1970
Minister of State for Defence	March 1974	September 1976
Secretary of State for Transport	September 1976	May 1979

7 March 1957	Bristol West	Labour Party	10,423	29.77
5 April 1962	Stockton-on-Tees	Labour Party	19,694	45.24
15 October 1964	Stockton-on-Tees	Labour Party	22,011	50.52
31 March 1966	Stockton-on-Tees	Labour Party	24,248	59.86
18 June 1970	Stockton-on-Tees	Labour Party	22,283	54.87
28 February 1974	Stockton	Labour Party	37,876	59.02
10 October 1974	Stockton	Labour Party	32,962	55.77
3 May 1979	Stockton	Labour Party	34,917	53.10
2 March 1981 Rt Hon Bill Rodgers resigned the Labour whip and announced his intention to sit as a Social Democrat.
9 June 1983	Stockton North	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	14,630	29.59
11 June 1987	Milton Keynes	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	21,695	29.31