North Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Lancashire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1832 (1832)–1885 (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.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the hundreds of Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland and Lonsdale.

Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1832)

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)

Elections

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Notes

1. ^ Styled Lord Stanley from 1834.
2. ^ Styled Marquess of Hartington from 1858.

Sources

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)