| Sowerby | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| County | West Riding of Yorkshire |
| 1885–1983 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Calder Valley |
| Created from | Northern West Riding of Yorkshire |
Sowerby was a county constituency centred on the village of Sowerby in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Calder Valley constituency.
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 McCorquodale | Unionist | |
| 1945 | John Belcher | Labour | |
| 1949 by-election | Douglas Houghton | Labour | |
| Feb 1974 | Max Madden | Labour | |
| 1979 | Donald Thompson | Conservative | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished: see Calder Valley | ||