Salford South (UK Parliament constituency)

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Salford South Borough constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Salford South was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Salford in Greater Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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

[edit] History

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, which split the two-member Salford constituency into three divisions: Salford North, Salford South and Salford West. It was abolished for the 1950 general election.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Mather
	1886	Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth
	1900	James Grimble Groves
	1906	Hilaire Belloc	Liberal
	1910	Sir Clement Anderson Barlow	Conservative
	1923	Joseph Toole	Labour
	1924	Edmund Ashworth Radford	Conservative
	1929	Joseph Toole	Labour
	1931	John Joseph Stourton	Conservative
	1945	Edward Arthur Hardy	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

• 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.