North West Staffordshire was a constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Elections were held using the first past the post voting system.
History The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.
Members of Parliament ElectionMemberParty 1885 George Leveson-Gower Liberal 1886 Justinian Edwards-Heathcote Conservative 1892 James Heath Conservative 1906 Alfred Billson Liberal 1907 Albert Stanley Liberal 1910 Labour 1916 Samuel Finney Labour 1918 constituency abolished
Election results Elections in the 1880s
Leveson-Gower was appointed Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; Labour: Albert Stanley Unionist:
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