| South Lancashire | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1832 |
| Abolished: | 1868 |
| Type: | County |
| Region: | England |
| County: | Lancashire |
| Elects Howmany: | Two until 1861, then three |
South Lancashire, formally called the Southern Division of Lancashire or Lancashire Southern, is a former county constituency of the South Lancashire area in England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the British House of Commons from 1832 to 1861, and then from a very narrow reform of that year, three until it was further split in 1868.
The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act of 1832 by the splitting of Lancashire constituency into Northern and Southern divisions. It was abolished by the Second Reform Act of 1867.
1832–1868: The Hundreds of Salford, and West Derby.[1]
Salford went to form the new South East Lancashire constituency, and West Derby the new South West Lancashire constituency.
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | George William Wood | Whig[2] [3] | Viscount Molyneux | Whig | |||
| 1835 | Lord Francis Egerton | Conservative | Richard Bootle Wilbraham | Conservative | |||
| 1837 | |||||||
| 1841 | |||||||
| 1844 by-election | William Entwisle | Conservative | |||||
| 1846 by-election | William Brown | Radical[4] [5] [6] | |||||
| 1847 | Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers | Radical[7] [8] [9] | |||||
| 1847 by-election | Alexander Henry | Radical[10] [11] | |||||
| 1852 | John Cheetham | Radical[12] [13] | |||||
| 1859 | Hon. Algernon Egerton | Conservative | William Legh | Conservative | |||
| 1861 by-election | representation increased to three members | ||||||
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | 3rd Member | 3rd Party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1861 by-election | Hon. Algernon Egerton | Conservative | William Legh | Conservative | Charles Turner | Conservative | ||||
| 1865 | William Ewart Gladstone | Liberal | ||||||||
| 1868 | Reform Act 1867 constituency abolished | |||||||||
Wilbraham's death caused a by-election.
Egerton was elevated to the peerage, becoming 1st Earl of Ellesmere and causing a by-election.
Pelham-Villiers was also elected MP for Wolverhampton and opted to sit there, causing a by-election.