North Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency)
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| North Lancashire County constituency |
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| Created: | 1832 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two |
North Lancashire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act of 1832 by the splitting of Lancashire constituency into Northern and Southern divisions.
The constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, being divided into four single member divisions of Blackpool, Chorley, Lancaster, and North Lonsdale.
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[edit] Boundaries
This constituency comprised the hundreds of Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland and Lonsdale.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- Constituency created (1832)
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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| 1832 | Edward Stanley,Baron Stanley | Whig | John Wilson Patten | Conservative | ||
| 1837 | Conservative | |||||
| 1844 | John Talbot Clifton | Conservative | ||||
| 1847 | James Heywood | Liberal | ||||
| 1857 | Spencer Compton Cavendish | Liberal | ||||
| 1868 | Frederick Arthur Stanley | Conservative | ||||
| 1874 | Thomas Henry Clifton | Conservative | ||||
| 1880 | Randle Joseph Feilden | Conservative | ||||
- Constituency abolished (1885)
[edit] Elections
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