Lancaster (UK Parliament constituency)

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Lancaster Borough constituency
Created:	1295, 1523, 1885
Abolished:	1376, 1867, 1997
Type:	House of Commons

Lancaster was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1867. Centred on the historic city of Lancaster in north-west England. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until the constituency was didenfranchised for corruption in 1867.

Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Lancaster was re-established for the 1885 general election as a county constituency. It then returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, with elections held under the first-past-the-post system. This constituency in turn was abolished when it was largely replaced by the new Lancaster and Wyre constituency for the 1997 general election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1660-1868 2.2 1885-1997 3 Election results 4 Sources

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1660-1868

• Constituency abolished (1867)

[edit] 1885-1997

Election		Member	Party
1885		Constituency re-created
	1885	George Blucher Heneage Marton	Conservative
	1886	James Williamson	Liberal
	1895	William Henry Foster	Conservative
	1900	Norval Watson Helme	Liberal
	1918	Archibald Hunter	Coalition Conservative
	1922	John Edward Singleton	Conservative
	1923	John Joseph O'Neill	Liberal
	1924	Gerald Strickland	Conservative
	1928	Robert Parkinson Tomlinson	Liberal
	1929	Herwald Ramsbotham	Conservative
	1941	Fitzroy Maclean	Conservative
	1959	Humphry Berkeley	Conservative
	1966	Stanley Henig	Labour
	1970	Elaine Kellett-Bowman	Conservative
1997		constituency abolished: see Lancaster and Wyre

[edit] Election results

[edit] Sources

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.