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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1832–1950

Bury was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bury in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1832 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Bury & Radcliffe.

Boundaries[edit]

1885-1918: The existing parliamentary borough, and so much of the municipal borough of Bury as was not already included in the parliamentary borough.[1]

1918-1950: The county borough of Bury and the urban district of Tottington.[2]

Members of Parliament[edit]

Elections[edit]

Elections in the 1830s[edit]

Elections in the 1840s[edit]

Elections in the 1850s[edit]

Elections in the 1860s[edit]

Elections in the 1870s[edit]

Elections in the 1880s[edit]

Elections in the 1890s[edit]

Elections in the 1900s[edit]

Elections in the 1910s[edit]

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Elections in the 1920s[edit]

Elections in the 1930s[edit]

Elections in the 1940s[edit]

General Election 1939–40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

References[edit]

  1. ^ “Chap. 23. Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885”. The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom passed in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of the reign of Queen Victoria. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1885. pp. 111–198.
  2. ^ Fraser, Hugh (1918). The Representation of the People Act, 1918: with explanatory notes. London: Sweet and Maxwell.
  3. ^ Leigh Rayment’s Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with “B” (part 6)
  4. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 72. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  5. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 89. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
  6. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 112. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
  7. ^ Dod, Charles Roger; Dod, Robert Phipps (1847). Dod’s Parliamentary Companion, Volume 15. Dod’s Parliamentary Companion. p. 251.
  8. ^ Prentice, Archibald (1853). History of the Anti-Corn Law League. London: W. & F. G. Cash. p. 25.
  9. ^ Taylor, Miles, ed. (2017). The European Diaries of Richard Cobden: 1846–1849. Routledge. p. 222. ISBN 9781351890328.
  10. ^ “General Election, 1841”. Morning Post. 28 June 1841. pp. 2–3 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. ^ “Bury”. Dublin Morning Register. 3 July 1841. p. 2 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. ^ “Peelites”. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  13. ^ Bebbington, D. W. (2009). “Unitarian Members of Parliament in the Nineteenth Century: A Catalogue”. University of Stirling.
  14. ^ Wigley, John (1980). The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Sunday. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 697. ISBN 0-7190-0794-1.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
  16. ^ a b c Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 176. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
  17. ^ “The Elections”. Bury and Norwich Post. 19 December 1832 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  18. ^ “Saturday, July 22, 1837”. Manchester Times. 22 July 1837 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  19. ^ “Local Intelligence”. Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 24 July 1841. p. 7 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  20. ^ The Annual Register, or a View of the History and Politics, of the Year 1841. J. G. & F. Rivington. 1842. p. 65.
  21. ^ “The Provinces”. The Spectator. 22 May 1841. p. 8.
  22. ^ Ollivier, John (2007). “Alphabetical List of the House of Commons”. Ollivier’s parliamentary and political director. p. 37.
  23. ^ “Salford Election”. Bolton Evening News. 19 April 1877. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  24. ^ a b c d e f The Liberal Year Book, 1907
  25. ^ a b c d e f g Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
  26. ^ a b Debrett’s House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  27. ^ The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 165 (189 in web page)
  28. ^ a b Debrett’s House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
  29. ^ a b c d e f g British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  30. ^ Manchester Evening News 4 April 1939
  31. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig