Heywood and Middleton

Labour hold / James Callaghan

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Percent	Change
	Labour	Callaghan, James	22,380	52.3%	+2.4%
	Conservative	Ollerenshaw, Eric	14,306	33.4%	-0.6%
	Liberal Democrats	Taylor, Dr Michael	5,252	12.3%	-3.5%
	Liberal	Burke, Philip	757	1.8%	N/A
	Natural Law	Scott, AM	134	0.3%	N/A
Majority			8,074	18.9%	+3%
Turnout			42,829	74.9%	1.1%
Swing				+1.5%