Stalybridge (UK Parliament constituency)

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Stalybridge
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County Cheshire
Major settlements Stalybridge
18681918
SeatsOne
Created from North Cheshire
South Lancashire (parts of)
Replaced by Stalybridge & Hyde
Mossley

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. Oldhammap1924.jpg
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]

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 boundaries
StalybridgeSo much of the Municipal Borough of Stalybridge as it not included in the said Parliamentary borough. [2]

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

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

Decades:

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1868: Stalybridge [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative James Sidebottom 2,405 53.6
Liberal Nathaniel Buckley 2,07846.4
Majority3277.2
Turnout 4,48384.0
Registered electors 5,338
Conservative win (new seat)

Elections in the 1870s

Sidebottom's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 1 Mar 1871: Stalybridge [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Nathaniel Buckley 2,198 51.9 +5.5
Conservative Francis Powell [4] 2,03348.15.5
Majority1653.8N/A
Turnout 4,23186.0+2.0
Registered electors 4,918
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +5.5
Sidebottom Tom Harrop Sidebottom.jpg
Sidebottom
General election 1874: Stalybridge [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Thomas Harrop Sidebottom 2,378 51.7 1.9
Liberal Nathaniel Buckley 2,22048.3+1.9
Majority1583.43.8
Turnout 4,59889.6+5.6
Registered electors 5,129
Conservative hold Swing 1.9

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Stalybridge [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal William Summers 2,706 51.6 +3.3
Conservative Thomas Harrop Sidebottom 2,54248.43.3
Majority1643.2N/A
Turnout 5,24893.6+4.0
Registered electors 5,606
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +3.3
General election 1885: Stalybridge [5] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Thomas Harrop Sidebottom 3,169 51.8 +3.4
Liberal William Summers 2,95048.23.4
Majority2193.6N/A
Turnout 6,11995.3+1.7
Registered electors 6,424
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +3.4
General election 1886: Stalybridge [5] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Thomas Harrop Sidebottom 3,220 55.0 +3.2
Liberal John Webb Probyn2,63845.0−3.2
Majority58210.0+6.4
Turnout 5,85891.2−4.1
Registered electors 6,424
Conservative hold Swing +3.2

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Stalybridge [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Thomas Harrop Sidebottom 3,280 52.7 −2.3
Liberal Joshua Macer Wright2,94347.3+2.3
Majority3375.4−4.6
Turnout 6,22392.8+1.6
Registered electors 6,703
Conservative hold Swing -2.3
General election 1895: Stalybridge [5] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Thomas Harrop Sidebottom 3,389 55.1 +2.4
Liberal Joshua Macer Wright2,75744.9−2.4
Majority63210.2+4.8
Turnout 6,14688.1−4.7
Registered electors 6,980
Conservative hold Swing +2.4

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Stalybridge [5] [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Matthew White Ridley 3,321 50.6 −4.5
Liberal John Frederick Cheetham 3,24149.4+4.5
Majority801.2−9.0
Turnout 6,56288.0−0.1
Registered electors 7,461
Conservative hold Swing -4.5
Cheetham John Frederick Cheetham.jpg
Cheetham
1905 Stalybridge by-election [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal John Frederick Cheetham 4,029 56.7 +7.3
Conservative James Travis-Clegg3,07843.3−7.3
Majority95113.4N/A
Turnout 7,10793.5+5.5
Registered electors 7,601
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +7.3
General election 1906: Stalybridge [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal John Frederick Cheetham 3,836 53.1 +3.7
Conservative James Travis-Clegg3,38246.93.7
Majority4546.2N/A
Turnout 7,21893.8+5.8
Registered electors 7,691
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +3.7

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Stalybridge [5] [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Wood 3,736 50.4 +3.5
Liberal Allan Heywood Bright 3,67949.6−3.5
Majority570.8N/A
Turnout 7,41594.3+0.5
Registered electors 7,860
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +3.5
General election December 1910: Stalybridge [5] [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Wood 3,807 52.7 +2.3
Liberal Allan Heywood Bright 3,41447.3−2.3
Majority3935.4+4.6
Turnout 7,22191.9−2.4
Registered electors 7,860
Conservative hold Swing +2.3

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. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Fifth Schedule; Statutes of the Realm, Eyre & Spottiswoode (1884, London) at p. 129
  3. 1 2 3 4 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.
  4. "Stalybridge Election" . Sheffield Daily Telegraph. 1 March 1871. p. 3. Retrieved 21 January 2018 via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. p. 193. ISBN   9781349022984.
  6. 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
  7. 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1896
  8. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  9. 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

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