South Lancashire, formally called the Southern Division of Lancashire or Lancashire Southern, is a former county constituency of the South Lancashire area in England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the British House of Commons from 1832 to 1861, and then from a very narrow reform of that year, three until it was further split in 1868.
The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act 1832 by the splitting of Lancashire constituency into Northern and Southern divisions. It was abolished by the Reform Act 1867.
Boundaries 1832–1868: The Hundreds of Salford, and West Derby.
Salford went to form the new South East Lancashire constituency, and West Derby the new South West Lancashire constituency.
Members of Parliament MPs 1832–1861
Constituency created (1832)
ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party 1832 George William Wood Whig Viscount Molyneux Whig 1835 Lord Francis Egerton Conservative Richard Bootle Wilbraham Conservative 1837 1841 1844 by-election William Entwisle Conservative 1846 by-election William Brown Radical 1847 Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers Radical 1847 by-election Alexander Henry Radical 1852 John Cheetham Radical 1859 Hon. Algernon Egerton Conservative William Legh Conservative 1861 by-election representation increased to three members
MPs 1861–1868 ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond partyThird memberThird party 1861 by-election Hon. Algernon Egerton Conservative William Legh Conservative Charles Turner Conservative 1865 William Ewart Gladstone Liberal 1868 Reform Act 1867: constituency abolished
Elections
Wilbraham's death caused a by-election.
Egerton was elevated to the peerage, becoming 1st Earl of Ellesmere and causing a by-election.
Pelham-Villiers was also elected MP for Wolverhampton and opted to sit there, causing a by-election.
Third seat created.
Third seat treated as new for 1865 election.
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