Melton (UK Parliament constituency)

Melton
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Leicestershire
Major settlements	Melton Mowbray
1885 (1885)–1983 (1983)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Rutland & Melton
Created from	North Leicestershire

Melton was a county constituency centred on the town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, when the former two-seat Southern Division of Leicestershire was replaced by two new single-seat county divisions: Melton and Loughborough. It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was succeeded by the Rutland and Melton constituency.

Boundaries

As its name suggested, the main settlement in the constituency was Melton Mowbray.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Lord John Manners	Conservative
	1888 by-election	Marquess of Granby	Conservative
	1895	Lord Edward Manners	Conservative
	1900	Lord Cecil Manners	Conservative
	1906	Henry de Rosenbach Walker	Liberal
	Dec. 1910	Sir Charles Yate, 1st Baronet	Conservative
	1924	Sir William Lindsay Everard	Unionist
	1945	Sir Anthony Nutting, 3rd Baronet	Conservative
	1956 by-election	Mervyn Pike	Conservative
	Feb. 1974	Michael Latham	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

Election results

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)