North Staffordshire (formally the Northern division of Staffordshire) was a

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in the county of

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

. It returned two

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(MPs) to the

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of the

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, elected by the bloc vote system.

History

The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, and abolished by the

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for the 1885 general election.

Boundaries

1832–1868: The Hundreds of Pirehill,

Totmonslow Totmonslow is a hundred in the county of Staffordshire, England. The hundred is located in the north-east of Staffordshire, named after the hamlet of the same name, which is a half mile east of Draycott in the Moors. The hamlet was the seat of th ...

and North

Offlow Offlow is a hundred in the county of Staffordshire, England, located in the south-east of that county. It is named after a tumulus or mound in the parish of Swinfen and Packington, 2½ miles south of Lichfield.The English Hundred Names, by Ol ...

. 1868–1885: The Hundreds of Totmonslow and Pirehill North.

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1850s

Egerton's resignation caused a by-election. Adderley was appointed Vice-President of the Committee of the Privy Council for Education, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1870s

Adderley was appointed

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, requiring a by-election. Adderley was elevated to the peerage, becoming Lord Norton, and causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1880s

References

* Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1832 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1885 {{UK-hist-constituency-stub