Manchester South (UK Parliament constituency)

Manchester South
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Major settlements	Manchester
1885 (1885)–1918 (1918)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Moss Side Rusholme
Created from	Manchester

Manchester South was one of six parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 by the division of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester, England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system. The constituency was abolished in 1918.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Redistribution 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 References 5 Sources

Boundaries

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and consisted of the following areas:^[1]

• The part of the civil parish of Chorlton upon Medlock south of the centres of the following roads: Cavendish Street, Grosvenor Street, Upper Brook Street, Dover Street, St. Leonards Street. (The remainder of the parish was included in the Manchester East constituency.)
• The Local Government district of Moss Side
• The Local Government District of Rusholme
• The detached part of the parish of Gorton included within the former parliamentary borough.
• The Hamlet of Kirkmanshulme (a detached part of the parish of Newton).

Redistribution

The seat was abolished in 1918, when the Representation of the People Act redrew constituencies throughout Great Britain. Manchester's representation was increased to ten members of parliament, and the former Manchester South was divided between the areas of the new Moss Side and Rusholme constituencies.^[2]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [3]	Party[4]
	1885	Henry Enfield Roscoe	Liberal
	1895	Marquess of Lorne	Liberal Unionist
	1900 by-election	William Wellesley Peel	Liberal Unionist
	1906	Arthur Haworth	Liberal
	1912 by-election	Philip Kirkland Glazebrook	Conservative
	1918 by-election	Robert Burdon Stoker	Conservative
	1918	constituency abolished

Elections

26 November 1885: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Enfield Roscoe	3791	55
	Conservative	P Royle	3121	45
Majority			670	10

2 July 1886: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Enfield Roscoe	3407	53
	Conservative	T Sowler	3072	47
Majority			335	5

6 July 1892: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Enfield Roscoe	4245	51
	Conservative	Viscount Emlyn	4064	49
Majority			181	2

13 July 1895: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Marquis of Lorne	4457	50
	Liberal	Henry Enfield Roscoe	4379	50
Majority			78	1

25 May 1900: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	William Wellesley Peel	5497	61
	Liberal	Leifchild Stratten Leif-Jones	3458	39
Majority			2039	23

2 October 1900: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	William Wellesley Peel	5122	57
	Liberal	Edwyn Holt	3850	43
Majority			1272	14

13 January 1906: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Adlington Haworth	8002	68
	Conservative	L E Smith	3770	32
Majority			4232	36

15 January 1910: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Adlington Haworth	8121	59
	Conservative	Charles Lionel Atkins Ward-Jackson	5669	41
Majority			2452	18

3 December 1910: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Adlington Haworth	Unopposed
Majority

• At the December 1910 election the Conservative candidate was Philip Glazebrook. However due to a mistake by his agent, his nomination papers were not handed in on time and Arthur Haworth was elected unopposed.^[5]

5 March 1912: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Kirkland Glazebrook	7051	52
	Liberal	Arthur Adlington Haworth	6472	48

22 March 1918: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Burdon Stoker	Unopposed
Majority

References

Sources

Election Results:

• http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1900.htm
• http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1945.htm

Viscount Emlyn:

• http://yba.llgc.org.uk/AnaServer?ybawbo+1281713+aview.anv+v=av&l=e&show=1

Leifchild Stratten Leif-Jones:

• Became Baron Rhayader; [1], [2]