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Manchester South

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1918

Summary

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1918

Field	Value
name	Manchester South
parliament	uk
year	1885
abolished	1918
type	Borough
elects_howmany	One
previous	Manchester
next	Moss Side
Rusholme
region	England
towns	Manchester

Rusholme

** Manchester South** was one of six parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 by the division of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester, England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system. The constituency was abolished in 1918.

Boundaries

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and consisted of the following areas:

The part of the civil parish of Chorlton upon Medlock south of the centres of the following roads: Cavendish Street, Grosvenor Street, Upper Brook Street, Dover Street, St. Leonards Street. (The remainder of the parish was included in the Manchester East constituency.)
The Local Government district of Moss Side
The Local Government District of Rusholme
The detached part of the parish of Gorton included within the former parliamentary borough.
The Hamlet of Kirkmanshulme (a detached part of the parish of Newton).

Redistribution

The seat was abolished in 1918, when the Representation of the People Act redrew constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Manchester's representation was increased to ten members of parliament, and the former Manchester South was divided between the areas of the new Moss Side and Rusholme constituencies.

Members of Parliament

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Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1885	Sir Henry Roscoe
Liberal Unionist Party}}"		1895	John Campbell
Liberal Unionist Party}}"		1900 by-election	William Peel
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1906	Arthur Haworth
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1912 by-election	Philip Glazebrook
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1918 by-election	Robert Burdon Stoker
	1918	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 8,534 |reg. electors = 8,534

Elections in the 1890s

|reg. electors = 10,228

|reg. electors = 10,945

Elections in the 1900s

|reg. electors = 11,788

|reg. electors = 11,788

|reg. electors = 14,221

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;

Unionist: Philip Glazebrook
Liberal:

References

Sources

Election Results:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060520143104/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1900.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20060520143047/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1945.htm Viscount Emlyn:
http://yba.llgc.org.uk/AnaServer?ybawbo+1281713+aview.anv+v=av&l=e&show=1 Leifchild Stratten Leif-Jones:

References

Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 c.23, Schedule 6: Divisions of Boroughs
Representation of the People Act 1918 c.64, Schedule 9: Redistribution of Seats
{{Rayment-hc. m. 1. (March 2012)
British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
The Liberal Year Book, 1907
Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
(10 February 1890). "Manchester Worthies: Sir Thomas Sowler (1818-1891)". Manchester Faces & Places.
(1 July 1886). "To the electors of South Manx". [[Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser]].
Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

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