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.
South Lancashire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Lancashire |
1832–1868 | |
Seats | Two until 1861, then three |
Created from | Lancashire |
Replaced by | South East Lancashire South West Lancashire Stalybridge |
The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act of 1832 by the splitting of Lancashire constituency into Northern and Southern divisions. It was abolished by the Second Reform Act of 1867.
1832–1868: The Hundreds of Salford, and West Derby.[1]
Salford went to form the new South East Lancashire constituency, and West Derby the new South West Lancashire constituency.
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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1832 | George William Wood | Whig[2][3] | Viscount Molyneux | Whig[2][3] | ||
1835 | Lord Francis Egerton | Conservative[2] | Richard Bootle Wilbraham | Conservative[2] | ||
1837 | ||||||
1841 | ||||||
1844 by-election | William Entwisle | Conservative | ||||
1846 by-election | William Brown | Radical[4][5][6] | ||||
1847 | Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers | Radical[7][8][9] | ||||
1847 by-election | Alexander Henry | Radical[10][11] | ||||
1852 | John Cheetham | Radical[12][13] | ||||
1859 | Hon. Algernon Egerton | Conservative | William Legh | Conservative | ||
1861 by-election | representation increased to three members |
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | 3rd Member | 3rd Party | |||
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1861 by-election | Hon. Algernon Egerton | Conservative | William Legh | Conservative | Charles Turner | Conservative | |||
1865 | William Ewart Gladstone | Liberal | |||||||
1868 | Reform Act 1867: constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Whig | George Wood | 5,694 | 39.7 | ||
Whig | Charles Molyneux | 5,575 | 38.8 | ||
Tory | Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, 3rd Baronet | 3,082 | 21.5 | ||
Majority | 2,493 | 17.3 | |||
Turnout | 8,453 | 84.2 | |||
Registered electors | 10,039 | ||||
Whig win (new seat) | |||||
Whig win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Francis Egerton | 5,620 | 29.0 | +18.3 | |
Conservative | Richard Bootle-Wilbraham | 4,729 | 24.4 | +13.7 | |
Whig | Charles Molyneux | 4,629 | 23.9 | −14.9 | |
Whig | George Wood | 4,394 | 22.7 | −17.0 | |
Majority | 5,226 | 6.3 | N/A | ||
Majority | 100 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,850 | 85.5 | +1.3 | ||
Registered electors | 11,519 | ||||
Conservative gain from Whig | Swing | +17.1 | |||
Conservative gain from Whig | Swing | +14.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Francis Egerton | 7,822 | 27.8 | −1.2 | |
Conservative | Richard Bootle-Wilbraham | 7,645 | 27.2 | +2.8 | |
Whig | Edward Stanley | 6,576 | 23.4 | −0.5 | |
Whig | Charles Towneley | 6,047 | 21.5 | −1.2 | |
Majority | 1,069 | 3.8 | +3.3 | ||
Turnout | 13,967 | 78.7 | −6.8 | ||
Registered electors | 17,754 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Francis Egerton | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Richard Bootle-Wilbraham | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 18,178 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Wilbraham's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Entwisle | 7,571 | 52.1 | N/A | |
Radical | William Brown | 6,973 | 47.9 | New | |
Majority | 598 | 4.2 | N/A | ||
Majority | 14,544 | 78.5 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 18,521 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Egerton was elevated to the peerage, becoming 1st Earl of Ellesmere and causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | William Brown | Unopposed | |||
Radical gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | William Brown | Unopposed | |||
Radical | Charles Pelham Villiers | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 23,630 | ||||
Radical gain from Conservative | |||||
Radical gain from Conservative |
Pelham-Villiers was also elected MP for Wolverhampton and opted to sit there, causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | Alexander Henry | Unopposed | |||
Radical hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | William Brown | Unopposed | |||
Radical | John Cheetham | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 21,196 | ||||
Radical hold | |||||
Radical hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Radical | William Brown | Unopposed | |||
Radical | John Cheetham | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 20,460 | ||||
Radical hold | |||||
Radical hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Algernon Egerton | 7,470 | 26.6 | New | |
Conservative | William Legh | 6,983 | 24.9 | New | |
Liberal | John Cheetham | 6,835 | 24.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | John Pemberton Heywood[15] | 6,763 | 24.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 707 | 2.5 | N/A | ||
Majority | 148 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 14,026 (est) | 72.2 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 19,433 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Charles Turner | 9,714 | 52.2 | ||
Liberal | John Cheetham | 8,898 | 47.8 | ||
Majority | 816 | 4.4 | |||
Turnout | 18,612 | 95.8 | |||
Registered electors | 19,433 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Algernon Egerton | 9,171 | 18.1 | −8.5 | |
Conservative | Charles Turner | 8,806 | 17.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | William Ewart Gladstone | 8,786 | 17.4 | −7.0 | |
Conservative | William Legh | 8,476 | 16.8 | −8.1 | |
Liberal | Henry Yates Thompson | 7,703 | 15.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | John Pemberton Heywood[16] | 7,653 | 15.1 | −9.0 | |
Turnout | 16,865 (est) | 78.2 (est) | +6.0 | ||
Registered electors | 21,555 | ||||
Majority | 20 | 0.0 | −0.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Majority | 310 | 0.6 | |||
Liberal win (new seat) |