Northern West Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)
| Northern West Riding of Yorkshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | West Riding of Yorkshire |
| 1865–1885 | |
| Number of members | Two |
| Replaced by | Elland, Keighley, Shipley, Skipton and Sowerby |
| Created from | West Riding of Yorkshire |
Northern West Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency covering part of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.
History
The constituency was created when the two-member West Riding of Yorkshire constituency was divided for the 1865 general election into two new constituencies, each returning two members: Northern West Riding of Yorkshire and Southern West Riding of Yorkshire. The extra seats were taken from parliamentary boroughs which had been disenfranchised for corruption.
In the redistribution which took effect for the 1868 general election the two divisions were redistributed into three. Eastern West Riding of Yorkshire was created and the Northern and Southern divisions modified. Each of the three divisions returned two members.
All three were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. The Northern division was replaced by five new single-member constituencies: Elland, Keighley, Shipley, Skipton and Sowerby.
Boundaries
The place of election was at Bradford.
From 1865 to 1868 the constituency comprised the north half of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Reform Act 1867, as amended by the Boundary Act 1868, re-defined the constituency (as it existed between 1868 and 1885) as the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross with part of the wapentake of Morley (the parishes of Bradford and Halifax and the townships of Boston and Idle).
Members of Parliament
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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| 1865 | Sir Francis Crossley | Liberal | Lord Frederick Cavendish | Liberal | ||
| 1872 | Francis Sharp Powell | Conservative | ||||
| 1874 | Sir Mathew Wilson, Bt | Liberal | ||||
| 1882 | Isaac Holden | Liberal | ||||
| 1885 | constituency abolished: see Elland, Keighley, Shipley, Skipton and Sowerby | |||||