| Morley | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Elects Howmany: | one |
| Previous: | Southern West Riding of Yorkshire |
| Next: | Batley and Morley, Dewsbury, Rothwell and Spen Valley |
Morley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. 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 system.
The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies proposes to re-establish the seat in its revised proposal.[1]
The constituency was created when the two-member Southern West Riding of Yorkshire constituency was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. It was abolished for the 1918 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Batley and Morley constituency.
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Charles Milnes Gaskell | Liberal | ||
| 1892 | Alfred Hutton | Liberal | ||
| 1910 (January) | Gerald France | Liberal | ||
| 1918 | constituency abolished: see Batley & Morley | |||
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;