St Helens (UK Parliament constituency) explained

St Helens
Parliament:uk
Year:1885
Abolished:1983
Type:County
Region:England
Elects Howmany:One
Towns:St Helens

St Helens was a constituency in the county of Lancashire, England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

Created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the constituency was abolished in 1983, being split into North and South seats.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The municipal borough of St Helens.[1]

1918–1983: The County Borough of St Helens.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberPartyNotes
Conservative
Labour
Conservative
Labour
Conservative
Labour
Resigned May 1958
Labour
constituency abolished

Elections

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;

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1939–40:Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

Elections in the 1970s

Notes and References

  1. Book: . The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom passed in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of the reign of Queen Victoria . https://archive.org/details/publicgeneralac01walegoog/page/n113/mode/2up . London . Eyre and Spottiswoode . 111–198 . 1885 . Chap. 23. Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 .
  2. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939