Southern West Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Southern West Riding of Yorkshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	West Riding of Yorkshire
1865–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Barnsley, Colne Valley, Doncaster, Hallamshire, Holmfirth, Morley, Normanton and Rotherham
Created from	West Riding of Yorkshire

Southern 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 by the Birkenhead Enfranchisement Act 1861 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 Southern division was replaced by eight new single-member constituencies: Barnsley, Colne Valley, Doncaster, Hallamshire, Holmfirth, Morley, Normanton and Rotherham.

Boundaries

The place of election was at Wakefield.

From 1865 to 1868 the constituency comprised the south half of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Birkenhead Enfranchisement Act 1861 provided that it was to contain the wapentakes of Barkston Ash, Osgoldcross, Strafforth and Tickhill, Staincross, and Agbrigg.^[1]

The Reform Act 1867, as amended by the Boundary Act 1868, re-defined the constituency (as it existed between 1868 and 1885) as the wapentakes of Agbrigg, Strafforth and Tickhill and Staincross.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1865		Viscount Milton	Liberal	Henry Beaumont	Liberal
1872		Walter Spencer-Stanhope	Conservative	Henry Beaumont	Liberal
1874		Walter Spencer-Stanhope	Conservative	Lewis Randle Starkey	Conservative
1880		Hon. Henry Wentworth-Fitzwilliam	Liberal	William Henry Leatham	Liberal
1885	constituency abolished: see Barnsley, Colne Valley, Doncaster, Hallamshire, Holmfirth, Morley, Normanton and Rotherham

Election results

General Election 1880: Southern West Riding of Yorkshire
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Henry Wentworth-Fitzwilliam	11,385
	Liberal	William Henry Leatham	11,181
	Conservative	Walter Thomas William Spencer Stanhope	10,391
	Conservative	Lewis Randle Starkey	10,020
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1874: Southern West Riding of Yorkshire
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Walter Thomas William Spencer Stanhope	9,705
	Conservative	Lewis Randle Starkey	9,639
	Liberal	William Henry Leatham	8,265
	Liberal	Henry Beaumont	8,148
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

At the Southern West Riding of Yorkshire by-election, 1872, Walter Thomas William Spencer Stanhope was elected unopposed.

General Election 1868: Southern West Riding of Yorkshire
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Viscount Milton	8,110
	Liberal	Henry Beaumont	7,943
	Conservative	Walter Thomas William Spencer Stanhope	7,935
	Conservative	Lewis Randle Starkey	7,621
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1865: Southern West Riding of Yorkshire
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Viscount Milton	7,258
	Liberal	Henry Beaumont	6,975
	Conservative	Christopher Beckett Denison	6,884
	Conservative	Walter Thomas William Spencer Stanhope	6,819
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing
	Liberal hold		Swing

References

↑ Birkenhead Enfranchisement Act 1861 (c.112), section 1.

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