Rossendale (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Rossendale County constituency |
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| Created: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Rossendale was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. Created in 1885, it comprised the town of Rawtenstall and other towns in the Rossendale Valley .
The constituency ceased to exist with the implementation of the 1983 boundary changes and was replaced by the Rossendale and Darwen Parliamentry constituency. The exact nature of the changes were as follows: 9,882 electors of the Rossendale seat were transferred to Bury South. 25,918 electors were added from the abolished Darwen constituency and 5,267 from Heywood and Royton.
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| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Marquess of Hartington | Liberal | |
| 1886 | Liberal Unionist | ||
| 1892 | John Henry Maden | Liberal | |
| 1900 | Sir William Mather | Conservative | |
| 1904 | Lewis Harcourt | Liberal | |
| 1917 | Sir John Henry Maden | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Robert Waddington | Conservative | |
| 1922 | David Halstead | Conservative | |
| 1923 | Robert Waddington | Conservative | |
| 1929 | Arthur Law | Labour | |
| 1931 | Ronald Cross | Conservative | |
| 1945 | George Henry Walker | Labour | |
| 1950 | Anthony Greenwood | Labour | |
| 1970 | Ronald Bray | Conservative | |
| 1974 | Michael Noble | Labour | |
| 1979 | David Trippier | Conservative | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished: see Rossendale and Darwen | ||
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