Otley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Otley constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1918
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Otley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Otley in West Yorkshire. 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.

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

[edit] History

The constituency was created when the two-member Eastern West Riding of Yorkshire was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election in six new single-member constituencies. It was abolished for the 1918 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Pudsey & Otley constituency.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Andrew Fairbairn
	1886	Sir John Barran
	1895	Marmaduke D'Arcy Wyvill(Conservative)
	1900	Sir James Hastings Duncan(Liberal)
1918		constituency abolished: see Pudsey & Otley

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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