Newton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Newton Borough constituency
Created:	1559, 1885
Abolished:	1832, 1983
Type:	House of Commons

Newton was a Borough constituency in the county of Lancashire of the House of Commons for the Parliament of England from 1559 to 1706 then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament.

In 1885 it was created a second time and represented by one Member of Parliament. This creation was abolished in 1983.

Contents 1 Borough constituency 2 County constituency 3 Members of Parliament 3.1 1660-1832 3.2 1885-1983 4 Elections 5 See also 6 Sources

[edit] Borough constituency

The Borough franchise from its creation in 1559, was held by the Freemen of the Borough. Each elector had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings. In 1800 there was just 50 electors and there were few, if any contested elections for either of the two seats

It was one of the 56 Rotten Boroughs disenfranchised by the Great Reform Act of 1832.

[edit] County constituency

The constituency was re-established in 1885 as a division of the parliamentary county of Lancashire, covering various settlements in addition to Newton itself, including Ashton-in-Makerfield, Billinge and Winstanley. It was reconstituted in 1918 to cover the urban districts of Golborne, Haydock and Newton, along with the Warrington Rural District and part of the Leigh Rural District (otherwise in Stretford. When it was redesignated in 1950 the Leigh Rural District had been abolished, and borders were realigned, with the constituency adding Irlam. The constituency stayed the same in 1974.^[1]

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1660-1832

• Constituency abolished (1832)

[edit] 1885-1983

Election		Member	Party
1885		constituency re-established with one MP
	1885	Richard Assheton Cross	Conservative
	1886	Thomas Wodehouse Legh	Conservative
	1899	Richard Pilkington	Conservative
	1906	James Andrew Seddon	Labour
	1910	Roundell Cecil Palmer	Conservative
	1918	Robert Young	Labour
	1931	Reginald Clare Essenhigh	Conservative
	1935	Robert Young	Labour
	1950	Frederick Lee	Labour
	1974	John Evans	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

[edit] Elections

[edit] See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

[edit] Sources

• Historical list of MPs
• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.