Otley (UK Parliament constituency)

Otley
Former constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)–1918 (1918)
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Keighley, Pudsey and Otley, Shipley and Skipton
Created from	Eastern West Riding of Yorkshire

Otley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Otley in West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created when the two-member Eastern West Riding of Yorkshire was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election in six new single-member constituencies. It was abolished for the 1918 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Pudsey & Otley constituency.

Boundaries

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of-

• the Sessional Division of Otley and
• thr Parishes of Beamsley in Addingham, Beamsley in Skipton, Bingley and Micklethwaite, Hazlewood with Storris, Morton, and Nesfield with Langbar.^[1]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Andrew Fairbairn
	1886	Sir John Barran
	1895	Marmaduke D'Arcy Wyvill	Conservative
	1900	Sir James Hastings Duncan	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished: see Pudsey & Otley

Election results

Elections in the 1910's

United Kingdom general election, December 1910: Otley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Hastings Duncan	6,151		Unknown
	Conservative	William Whittaker Thompson	4,892		Unknown
Majority			1259
Turnout			11,143
	Liberal hold		Swing

United Kingdom general election, January 1910: Otley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Hastings Duncan	6,911		Unknown
	Conservative	William Whittaker Thompson	5,010		Unknown
Majority			1,901
Turnout			11,921
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900's

United Kingdom general election, 1906: Otley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Hastings Duncan	6,307		Unknown
	Conservative	William Whittaker Thompson	4,658		Unknown
Majority			1,649
Turnout			10,965
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election Wednesday 10 October 1900: Otley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Hastings Duncan	5,327	52.87	Unknown
	Conservative	Marmaduke D'Arcy Wyvill	4,747	47.12	Unknown
Majority			580	5.76
Turnout			11,397	78.21
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

References

1. ^ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "O"