HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Mid Cheshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
OR:
Mid Cheshire (UK Parliament Constituency) on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Mid Cheshire is a former
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
parliamentary A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ...
constituency.


History

Under the
Reform Act 1867 The Representation of the People Act 1867, 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102 (known as the Reform Act 1867 or the Second Reform Act) was a piece of British legislation that enfranchised part of the urban male working class in England and Wales for the first ...
, the Parliamentary County of Cheshire was divided into three 2-member constituencies. This was achieved by the creation of Mid Cheshire which comprised the Hundred of Bucklow from North Cheshire and the Hundred of Northwich from South Cheshire. Under the
Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict., c. 23) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons, introducing the concept of equal ...
, the three 2-member seats were abolished and re-divided into eight single-member constituencies:
Altrincham Altrincham ( , locally ) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey. It is southwest of Manchester city centre, southwest of Sale and east of Warrington. At the 2011 Census, it had a population ...
, Crewe, Eddisbury, Hyde,
Knutsford Knutsford () is a market town in the borough of Cheshire East, in Cheshire, England. Knutsford is south-west of Manchester, north-west of Macclesfield and 12.5 miles (20 km) south-east of Warrington. The population at the 2011 Census was ...
, Macclesfield, Northwich and Wirral.


Boundaries

1868–1885: The Hundreds of Bucklow and Northwich.


Members of Parliament


Elections


Elections in the 1860s


Elections in the 1870s

Legh resigned, causing a by-election. Leigh's death caused a by-election.


Elections in the 1880s

Egerton's elevation to the peerage, becoming Lord Egerton, caused a by-election.


See also

*
List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies This is a list of former parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom, organised by date of abolition. It includes UK parliamentary constituencies that have been abolished, including those that were later recreated, but does not include co ...
*
History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Cheshire The ceremonial county of Cheshire, which comprises the unitary authorities of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington, has returned 11 MPs to the UK Parliament since 1997. Under the Local Government Act 1972, which came ...


References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cheshire Mid Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1868 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1885