Manchester South (UK Parliament constituency)

Manchester South
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Major settlements	Manchester
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Moss Side Rusholme
Created from	Manchester

Manchester South was one of six parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 by the division of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester, England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system. The constituency was abolished in 1918.

Boundaries

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and consisted of the following areas:^[1]

• The part of the civil parish of Chorlton upon Medlock south of the centres of the following roads: Cavendish Street, Grosvenor Street, Upper Brook Street, Dover Street, St. Leonards Street. (The remainder of the parish was included in the Manchester East constituency.)
• The Local Government district of Moss Side
• The Local Government District of Rusholme
• The detached part of the parish of Gorton included within the former parliamentary borough.
• The Hamlet of Kirkmanshulme (a detached part of the parish of Newton).

Redistribution

The seat was abolished in 1918, when the Representation of the People Act redrew constituencies throughout Great Britain. Manchester's representation was increased to ten members of parliament, and the former Manchester South was divided between the areas of the new Moss Side and Rusholme constituencies.^[2]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [3]	Party[4]
	1885	Henry Enfield Roscoe	Liberal
	1895	Marquess of Lorne	Liberal Unionist
	1900 by-election	William Wellesley Peel	Liberal Unionist
	1906	Arthur Haworth	Liberal
	1912 by-election	Philip Kirkland Glazebrook	Conservative
	1918 by-election	Robert Burdon Stoker	Conservative
	1918	constituency abolished

Elections

26 November 1885: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Enfield Roscoe	3,791	55
	Conservative	P Royle	3,121	45
Majority			670	10

2 July 1886: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Enfield Roscoe	3,407	53
	Conservative	T Sowler	3,072	47
Majority			335	5

6 July 1892: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Enfield Roscoe	4,245	51
	Conservative	Viscount Emlyn	4,064	49
Majority			181	2

13 July 1895: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Marquis of Lorne	4,457	50
	Liberal	Henry Enfield Roscoe	4,379	50
Majority			78	1

Elections in the 1900s

25 May 1900: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	William Wellesley Peel	5,497	61
	Liberal	Leifchild Stratten Leif-Jones	3,458	39
Majority			2,039	23

2 October 1900: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	William Wellesley Peel	5,122	57
	Liberal	Edwyn Holt	3,850	43
Majority			1,272	14

Arthur Haworth

13 January 1906: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Adlington Haworth	8,002	68
	Conservative	L Eaton Smith	3,770	32
Majority			4,232	36

Elections in the 1910s

15 January 1910: Manchester South Electorate 15,594
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Adlington Haworth	8,121	58.9
	Conservative	Charles Lionel Atkins Ward-Jackson	5,669	41.1
Majority			2,452	17.8
Turnout				88.4
	Liberal hold		Swing

3 December 1910: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Adlington Haworth	Unopposed	n/a	n/a

• At the December 1910 election the Conservative candidate was Philip Glazebrook. However due to a mistake by his agent, his nomination papers were not handed in on time and Arthur Haworth was elected unopposed.^[5]

5 March 1912: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Kirkland Glazebrook	7,051	52
	Liberal	Arthur Adlington Haworth	6,472	48

22 March 1918: Manchester South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Burdon Stoker	Unopposed	n/a	n/a

References

1. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 c.23, Schedule 6: Divisions of Boroughs
2. Representation of the People Act 1918 c.64, Schedule 9: Redistribution of Seats
3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)
4. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 152. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
5. The Times, Saturday, Dec 03, 1910; pg. 12

Sources

Election Results:

• http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1900.htm
• http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1945.htm

Viscount Emlyn:

• http://yba.llgc.org.uk/AnaServer?ybawbo+1281713+aview.anv+v=av&l=e&show=1

Leifchild Stratten Leif-Jones: