Manchester Moss Side (UK Parliament constituency)
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Manchester Moss Side Borough constituency |
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Created: | 1918 |
Abolished: | 1983 |
Type: | House of Commons |
Members: | one |
Manchester Moss Side was a parliamentary constituency in the Moss Side area of the city of Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1983 general election.
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[edit] Boundaries
[edit] Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Gerald Berkeley Hurst | Conservative | |
1923 | Thomas Raven Ackroyd | Liberal | |
1924 | Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst | Conservative | |
1935 | William Rostron Duckworth | Conservative | |
1945 | William Griffiths | Labour | |
1950 | Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh | Conservative | |
1959 | James Watts | Conservative | |
1961 | Frank Henry Taylor | Conservative | |
1974 | Frank Hatton | Labour | |
1978 | George Martin Morton | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished |
[edit] Politics and history of the constituency
[edit] Election results
[edit] Sources
- Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.