Sowerby (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Sowerby County constituency |
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| Created: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Sowerby was a county constituency centred on the village of Sowerby in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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[edit] History
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely treplaced by the new Calder Valley constituency.
[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Edward Crossley | Liberal | |
| 1892 | John William Mellor | Liberal | |
| 1904 by-election | John Sharp Higham | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Robert Hewitt Barker | Independent NADSS | |
| 1922 | William Algernon Simpson-Hinchliffe | Conservative | |
| 1923 | Arnold Williams | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Geoffrey Reginald Devereux Shaw | Unionist | |
| 1929 | William John Tout | Labour | |
| 1931 | Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale | Unionist | |
| 1945 | John William Belcher | Labour | |
| 1949 by-election | Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton | Labour | |
| Feb. 1974 | Maxwell Francis Madden | Labour | |
| 1979 | Donald Thompson | Conservative | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished: see Calder Valley | ||
[edit] Elections
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