Blackpool (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Blackpool Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1945 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Blackpool was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Blackpool in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election, when it was replaced by the new Blackpool North and Blackpool South constituencies.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Frederick Stanley | Conservative | |
| 1886 | Sir Matthew Ridley | Conservative | |
| 1900 | Henry Wilson Worsley-Taylor | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Wilfrid Ashley | Conservative | |
| 1918 | Sir Albert Lindsay Parkinson | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Leonard Greenham Star Molloy | Conservative | |
| 1923 | Hugh Mowbray Meyler | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Sir Walter de Frece | Conservative | |
| 1931 | Clifford Erskine-Bolst | Conservative | |
| 1935 | Roland Robinson | Conservative | |
| 1945 | constituency abolished: see Blackpool North and Blackpool South | ||
[edit] Election results
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[edit] References
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
