East Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)

East Cheshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Cheshire
1868 (1868)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	Two
Created from	North Cheshire and South Cheshire

East Cheshire was parliamentary constituency which returned two Member of Parliament (MP)s to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Elections were held using the bloc vote system.

History

It was created upon the abolition of North Cheshire and South Cheshire in 1868 and the redivision of Cheshire into East Cheshire, West Cheshire, Mid Cheshire and Stalybridge. In 1885, the first three of these were abolished and re-divided into eight constituencies: Altrincham, Crewe, Eddisbury, Hyde, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Northwich and Wirral.

	First member	First party	Second member	Second Party
1868	Edward Christopher Egerton	Conservative	William John Legh	Conservative
1869 by-election	William Cunliffe Brooks	Conservative	William John Legh	Conservative
1868	constituency abolished

^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 359. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.