Idris Owen

Idris Wyn Owen (18 February 1912 – 2003) was a British Conservative Party politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) for 1970–74.

Owen was educated at School and College, and Manchester School of Commerce (forerunner of Manchester Metropolitan University). He became a director of a building and civil engineering company. He was a fellow of the Institute of Builders and Vice-president of the National Federation of Building Trades Employers, 1965. He served as a councillor on from 1946 and chaired the housing committee.

Owen contested Manchester Exchange in 1951, came close in Stalybridge and Hyde in 1955 and first stood in Stockport North in 1966. He was elected in Stockport North in the 1970 general election but was defeated by just 203 votes by Labour's Andrew Bennett in the February 1974 general election. He stood again in the October 1974 general election but lost by a larger margin.

Owen lived in The Old Rectory, Gawsworth, Cheshire for much of his life, later moving to Prestbury, Cheshire, where he died. He and his wife Eileen had two children.

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14,881 Idris Owen (Conservative)

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23,462 Idris Owen (Conservative)

21,598 Arnold Gregory (Labour)
18,262 Idris Owen (Conservative)

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