Stalybridge officially sometimes written in early years as Staleybridge was a

constituency An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger State (polity), state (a country, administrative region, ...

represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1868 until 1918 by one MP. It comprised the borough of

Stalybridge Stalybridge () is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 23,731 at the 2011 Census. Historic counties of England, Historically divided between Cheshire and Lancashire, it is east of Manchester city centre and no ...

which lay in Lancashire and

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

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 Representation of the People Act 1918 was an Act of Parliament passed to reform the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland. It is sometimes known as the Fourth Reform Act. The Act extended the franchise in parliamentary elections, also ...

the seat's main replacement became

Stalybridge and Hyde Stalybridge and Hyde is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Jonathan Reynolds, a member of Labour Co-op. Constituency profile The constituency lies on the lower slopes of the Pennines and b ...

Creation, boundaries and abolition

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:http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1867/102/pdfs/ukpga_18670102_en.pdf Reform Act 1867, Schedule B; Statutes of the Realm, Eyre & Spottiswoode (1880, London) at p. 1167 *Municipal Borough of Stalybridge *The remaining portion of the township of

Dukinfield Dukinfield is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, on the south bank of the River Tame opposite Ashton-under-Lyne, east of Manchester. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 19,306. Within the boundaries of the historic co ...

*Township of Stalley *The District of the Local Board of Health of Mossley It was marginally expanded in line with a local government change under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, to be: The seat was abolished by the

, with the majority of its electorate being included in the new constituency of

. 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

*1868 ''Constituency created'' Previously part of North Cheshire and South Lancashire

Elections

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1870s

Sidebottom's death caused a by-election.

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; *Unionist: John Wood *Liberal: Walter Kenyon

Sources

* {{rayment-hc, s, 4, date=March 2012 Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1868 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918 Stalybridge