Mid Durham (UK Parliament constituency)

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Mid Durham County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1918
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Mid Durham was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the North Durham and South Durham county divisions were replaced by eight new single-member county constituencies. These were Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Chester-le-Street, Houghton-le-Spring, Jarrow, Mid Durham, North West Durham and South East Durham. In addition there were seven County Durham borough constituencies.

It was abolished for the 1918 general election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Crawford
	1890 by-election	John Wilson	Liberal-Labour
	1915 by-election	Samuel Galbraith	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in County Durham

[edit] References

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