North Lonsdale was a
parliamentary constituency in north
Lancashire. It returned one
Member of Parliament (MP) to the
House of Commons of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created under the
Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the two-seat
North Lancashire constituency was replaced and divided by a number of single-seat divisions.
The
North Lonsdale Rural District
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North Lonsdale was a rural district in the county of Lancashire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was created in 1894 as the Ulverston Rural District, and was renamed in 1960.
It covere ...
, which was created in 1894, nine years after the constituency was created, was at the time an
exclave
An enclave is a territory (or a small territory apart of a larger one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state or entity. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is sometimes used improperly to deno ...
of
Lancashire. The area is now in
Cumbria.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
References
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Politics of Cumbria
Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic)
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918