Stalybridge_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Stalybridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Stalybridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1868–1918


Stalybridge officially sometimes written in early years as Staleybridge was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1868 until 1918 by one MP. It comprised the borough of Stalybridge which lay in Lancashire and Cheshire and which is in the east of today's Greater Manchester. On abolition for the 1918 general election under the Representation of the People Act 1918 the seat's main replacement became Stalybridge and Hyde.

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Creation, boundaries and abolition

Map of the wider area in 1924. The seat took in the south-easternmost part of Lancashire and lay within the ancient Salford hundred division of Lancashire, skirting the more densely populated north bank of the Tame at Ashton under Lyne, taking in parts of historic Cheshire and both banks of the river above Ashton.

Parliament created this seat under the Reform Act 1867, the part of the second Reform Act that covered England and Wales, which defined its components as the:[1]

  • Municipal Borough of Stalybridge
  • The remaining portion of the township of Dukinfield
  • Township of Stalley
  • The District of the Local Board of Health of Mossley

It was marginally expanded in line with a local government change under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, to be:

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The seat was abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1918, with the majority of its electorate being included in the new constituency of Stalybridge and Hyde. A small area which was now part of the municipal borough of Mossley in Lancashire was added to the new constituency of Mossley.

Members of Parliament

  • 1868 Constituency created

Previously part of North Cheshire and South Lancashire

Elections

Decades:

Elections in the 1860s

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Elections in the 1870s

Sidebottom's death caused a by-election.

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Elections in the 1880s

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Elections in the 1890s

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Elections in the 1900s

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Cheetham
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Elections in the 1910s

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General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

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References

  1. Reform Act 1867, Schedule B; Statutes of the Realm, Eyre & Spottiswoode (1880, London) at p. 1167
  2. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
  3. "Stalybridge Election". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. 1 March 1871. p. 3. Retrieved 21 January 2018 via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. p. 193. ISBN 9781349022984.
  5. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
  6. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1896
  7. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  8. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

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