Manchester South (UK Parliament constituency) explained

Manchester South
Parliament:	uk
Year:	1885
Abolished:	1918
Type:	Borough
Elects Howmany:	One
Region:	England
Towns:	Manchester

Manchester South was one of six parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 by the division of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester, England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system. The constituency was abolished in 1918.

Boundaries

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and consisted of the following areas:^[1]

• The part of the civil parish of Chorlton upon Medlock south of the centres of the following roads: Cavendish Street, Grosvenor Street, Upper Brook Street, Dover Street, St. Leonards Street. (The remainder of the parish was included in the Manchester East constituency.)
• The Local Government district of Moss Side
• The Local Government District of Rusholme
• The detached part of the parish of Gorton included within the former parliamentary borough.
• The Hamlet of Kirkmanshulme (a detached part of the parish of Newton).

Redistribution

The seat was abolished in 1918, when the Representation of the People Act redrew constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Manchester's representation was increased to ten members of parliament, and the former Manchester South was divided between the areas of the new Moss Side and Rusholme constituencies.^[2]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party^[3]
			Liberal
	1895		Liberal Unionist
	1900 by-election		Liberal Unionist
			Liberal
			Conservative
	1918 by-election		Conservative
	1918	constituency abolished

Election results

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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Unionist: Philip Glazebrook
• Liberal:

Sources

Election Results:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20060520143104/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1900.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20060520143047/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1945.htm

Viscount Emlyn:

• http://yba.llgc.org.uk/AnaServer?ybawbo+1281713+aview.anv+v=av&l=e&show=1

Leifchild Stratten Leif-Jones:

Notes and References

1. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 c.23, Schedule 6: Divisions of Boroughs
2. Representation of the People Act 1918 c.64, Schedule 9: Redistribution of Seats
3. Book: Craig , F. W. S. . F. W. S. Craig . British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 . 1974 . 2nd . 1989 . Parliamentary Research Services . Chichester . 0-900178-27-2 . 152.