Editing Oldham (section)

=== Parliamentary representation ===
The boundaries of two [[United Kingdom constituencies|parliamentary constituencies]] divide Oldham: [[Oldham East and Saddleworth (UK Parliament constituency)|Oldham East and Saddleworth]], and [[Oldham West and Royton (UK Parliament constituency)|Oldham West and Royton]] (which includes the town centre), represented by [[Labour party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Members of Parliament]] (MPs) [[Debbie Abrahams]] and [[Jim McMahon (politician)|Jim McMahon]] respectively.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/phil_woolas/oldham_east_and_saddleworth|title=Phil Woolas MP|publisher=theyworkforyou.com|access-date=11 November 2007|archive-date=18 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018124247/http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/phil_woolas/oldham_east_and_saddleworth|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25475/jim_mcmahon/oldham_west_and_royton|title=Jim McMahon MP|publisher=theyworkforyou.com|access-date=1 February 2018|archive-date=24 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424003907/https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25475/jim_mcmahon/oldham_west_and_royton|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/debbie_abrahams/oldham_east_and_saddleworth|title=Debbie Abrahams MP|publisher=theyworkforyou.com|access-date=14 January 2011|archive-date=21 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221063105/http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/debbie_abrahams/oldham_east_and_saddleworth|url-status=live}}</ref>

Created as a [[parliamentary borough]] [[Reform Act 1832|in 1832]], Oldham's first parliamentary representatives were the [[Radicalism (historical)|radicals]] [[William Cobbett]] and [[John Fielden]].<ref name="Vision of Oldham">{{citation|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=972920&word=NULL|publisher=visionofbritain.org.uk|author=Wilson, John Marius|title=Descriptive Gazetteer entry for OLDHAM|access-date=2 November 2007|archive-date=14 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114181301/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=972920&word=NULL|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Winston Churchill]] began his political career in Oldham. Although unsuccessful at his first attempt in 1899, Churchill [[Oldham in the 1900 general election|was elected as the member of Parliament]] for the [[Oldham (UK Parliament constituency)|Oldham parliamentary borough constituency]] in the [[1900 United Kingdom general election|1900 general election]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=710|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209222340/http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=710|archive-date=9 December 2007|title=Churchill and...Politics; All the Elections Churchill Ever Contested|author=The Churchill Centre|publisher=winstonchurchill.org|access-date=9 June 2009}}</ref> He held the constituency for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] until the [[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906 general election]], when he won the election for [[Manchester North West (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester North West]] as a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] MP. After he became the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] in 1940, Churchill was made an [[Honorary Freedom of Boroughs Act 1885|Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Oldham]], on 2 April 1941.{{sfnp|Bateson|1949|p=|ps=}}
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![[Oldham West and Royton (UK Parliament constituency)|Oldham West and Royton]]
![[Oldham East and Saddleworth (UK Parliament constituency)|'''Oldham East and Saddleworth''']]
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|[[File:Official portrait of Jim McMahon crop 2.jpg|frameless]]
|[[File:Official portrait of Debbie Abrahams MP crop 2, 2024.jpg|frameless]]
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|[[Jim McMahon (politician)|Jim McMahon]]
|[[Debbie Abrahams]]
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|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
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