Altrincham (UK Parliament constituency)

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Altrincham County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1945
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Altrincham was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1945. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1910s 3.2 Elections in the 1920s 3.3 Elections in the 1930s 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency was defined in 1885, and redefined in 1918, to cover the urban districts of Altrincham, Ashton upon Mersey, Bowdon, Cheadle and Gatley, Hale, Handforth, Lymm and Sale, and part of the rural district of Bucklow, all in Cheshire.

In 1945, the constituency was redistributed, as its electorate exceeded 100,000 and was officially deemed overlarge. The Boundary Commission for England was instructed by Parliament to divide the larger seats (which sometimes affected neighbouring constituencies). This was an interim measure before the Boundary Commission reviewed the whole country later in the decade in the first general review. In the case of the Altrincham area two seats, this one and Knutsford were re-arranged into three seats. In addition to a modified Knutsford, the towns of Altrincham and Sale became a new borough constituency of Altrincham and Sale, with the remainder of the old division largely forming the new Bucklow county constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1885)

Election		Member	Party
	1885	John Baguley Brooks	Conservative
	1886	Sir William Cunliffe Brooks	Conservative
	1892	Coningsby Ralph Disraeli	Conservative
	1906	Sir William John Crossley	Liberal
	1910, December	John Robert Kebty-Fletcher	Conservative
	1913 by-election	George Clement Hamilton	Conservative
	1922	Sir George Clement Hamilton
	1923	Robert Alstead	Liberal
	1924	Cyril Atkinson	Conservative
	1933 by-election	Sir Edward William Macleay Grigg	Conservative
1945		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

General election, 1918: Altrincham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Clement Hamilton	20,421	72.7
	Labour	G. Middleton	7,685	27.3
Majority			12,736	45.4
Turnout			28,106	68.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

General election, 1931: Altrincham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Cyril Atkinson	(unopposed)
Majority			N/A
Turnout			N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Altrincham by-election, 14th June 1933
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Edward Grigg	25,392	51.2
	Liberal	Philip Oliver	15,892	32.0
	Labour	James Hindle Hudson	8,333	16.8
Majority			9,500	19.2
Turnout				63.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election, 1935: Altrincham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Edward Grigg	50,719	70.2	+19.0
	Labour	A. Moss	21,493	29.8	+13.0
Majority			29,226	40.4	+21.2
Turnout			72,212	72.0	+8.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• Altrincham by-election, 1913
• Altrincham by-election, 1933

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page