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.
Creation, boundaries and abolition
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:Reform Act 1867, Schedule B; Statutes of the Realm, Eyre & Spottiswoode (1880, London) at p. 1167 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: Name of parliamentary boroughContents and boundariesStalybridgeSo much of the Municipal Borough of Stalybridge as it not included in the said Parliamentary borough.Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Fifth Schedule; Statutes of the Realm, Eyre & Spottiswoode (1884, London) at p. 129
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
ElectionMemberParty 1868 James Sidebottom Conservative 1871 by-election Nathaniel Buckley Liberal 1874 Tom Harrop Sidebottom Conservative 1880 William Summers Liberal 1885 Tom Harrop Sidebottom Conservative 1900 Matthew White Ridley Conservative 1905 by-election John Frederick Cheetham Liberal Jan. 1910 John Wood Conservative 1918 Constituency abolished: see Stalybridge and Hyde
Elections
Elections in the 1860s
Elections in the 1870s Sidebottom's death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1880s
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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; Unionist: John Wood Liberal: Walter Kenyon
See also History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Cheshire
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