Who would you have supported? British party leadership contests.

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Who be Maudling?

Reggie Maulding; M.P for Barnet from 1950 until the late '70's, senior Tory politician for most of this time, fairly liberal overall... and a crook who was up to his neck in the Poulson mess and various other dodgy dealings (this bit wasn't known back then, obviously).

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M.P for Rossendale until he retired in 1970, very much on the Left, a Christian Socialist and a Unilateralist.

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Hast thee not heard of George "tired and emotional" Brown?

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Silkin was the M.P for Deptford from the '60's until the '80's. Can't remember as much about him as I should...
Shore was the M.P for various East End constituencies from '64 until 1997. Best known for being strongly anti-EEC/EU, but was also the first politician to decide that something should be done about the state of the inner cities (way ahead of his time on that) and was an early supporter of Wilson.

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Eric Heffer was the leftwing M.P for Liverpool Walton from '64 until his death in the early '90's. Strongly religious IIRC.

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55 Bevan
60 Wilson
61 Greenwood
63 Wilson
76 Callaghan
80 Healey
83 Heffer or Shore
88 Kinnock (Benn was a busted flush by this point).
92 Smith!
94 Probably Prescott, although I can't exactly say that I'm a fan of any of these three.

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and, quite literally headed in the opposite of contemporary Reg Prentice who [hack] heroicly [/hack] crossed over to the Conservatives in 1977.

Reg Prentice was nowt but a pathetic imitation of Macdonald, Snowden, Thomas and other such traitors

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Just in case anyone gets the wrong idea; Heffer wasn't a supporter of Militant. He walked out because he felt that his adopted home City was being unfairly attacked by Kinnock.

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1965: Maudling (Con MP for Chipping Barnet)

Just Barnet then; they added the Chipping in either '74 or '83.

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Leeds South (parts of which are in the current Morley & Rothwell seat; the estates to the south of the inner city that is, not Morley, which was twinned with Batley at the time).