| North Lancashire | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1832–1885 | |
| Number of members | two |
| Replaced by | Barrow-in-Furness, Blackpool, Chorley, Lancaster, and North Lonsdale |
| Created from | Lancashire |
North Lancashire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act of 1832 by the splitting of Lancashire constituency into Northern and Southern divisions.
The constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, being divided into five single member divisions of Barrow-in-Furness, Blackpool, Chorley, Lancaster, and North Lonsdale.
Contents |
This constituency comprised the hundreds of Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland and Lonsdale.
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | John Wilson-Patten | Conservative | Hon. Edward Stanley[1] | Whig | ||
| 1837 | Conservative | |||||
| 1844 by-election | John Talbot Clifton | Conservative | ||||
| 1847 | James Heywood | Liberal | ||||
| 1857 | Lord Cavendish of Keighley[2] | Liberal | ||||
| 1868 | Hon. Frederick Stanley | Conservative | ||||
| 1874 by-election | Thomas Henry Clifton | Conservative | ||||
| 1880 | Joseph Feilden | Conservative | ||||
| 1885 | Constituency abolished (1885) | |||||