Stoke-upon-Trent (UK Parliament constituency)

Stoke-upon-Trent
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1832–1918
Number of members	two (1832-1885); one (1885-1918)
Replaced by	Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke; Stoke-on-Trent, Hanley; Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem

Stoke-upon-Trent was a parliamentary borough in Staffordshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1832 until 1885, and then one member from 1885 until 1918, when the borough was enlarged, renamed Stoke-on-Trent, and split into three single-member constituencies.

History

Stoke-upon-Trent was established as a borough by the Great Reform Act of 1832 to represent the Staffordshire Potteries, one of the most populous urban areas in England which had previously had no separate representation. The new borough consisted of Stoke-upon-Trent and parts of the surrounding towns, and at the time of the Reform Act had a population just over 50,000 (of whom 37,220 were in Stoke parish); in 1867 the boundaries were extended somewhat, to bring in a part of Burslem which had previously been excluded.

In further boundary changes implemented at the 1885 general election, the borough was split into two single-member constituencies, the northern part becoming a separate Hanley borough while the southern part (containing Longton and Fenton as well as Stoke itself) retained the Stoke-upon-Trent name; the new constituency had a population just under 100,000 by the time of the First World War. The industrial interests predominated, with the bulk of the voters being pottery workers or miners, although Stoke was a partly middle-class town; at first an apparently safe Liberal seat, it fell narrowly to the Unionists in both 1895 and 1900, perhaps partly because of discord between miners and potters within the local Liberal party. From 1906 it was held by John Ward as a Lib-Lab MP hostile to the Labour Party, who being from the Navvies' Union could defuse the mutual jealousies of the potters and miners.

By 1918, the pottery towns had been united for municipal purposes in a single Stoke-on-Trent county borough, and the parliamentary boundary changes which came into effect at that year's general election established a parliamentary borough of the same name to replace Stoke-upon-Trent and Hanley, divided into three constituencies: Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke; Stoke-on-Trent, Hanley; and Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem.

Members of Parliament

1832-1885

Year		First member	First party	Second member	Second party
1832		Josiah Wedgwood II	Whig	John Davenport	Conservative
1835		Richard Edensor Heathcote	Whig
1836		Hon. George Anson	Whig
1837		William Taylor Copeland	Conservative
1841		William Taylor Copeland	Conservative	John Ricardo	Whig
1852		Hon. Frederick Leveson-Gower	Whig
1857		William Taylor Copeland	Conservative
1859					Liberal
1862				Henry Riversdale Grenfell	Liberal
1865		Alexander Beresford Hope	Conservative
February 1868		George Melly	Liberal
November 1868				William Sargeant Roden	Liberal
1874				Robert Heath	Conservative
1875		Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy	Independent	Robert Heath	Conservative
1880		William Woodall	Liberal	Henry Broadhurst	Liberal-Labour
1885	Constituency divided into single-member constituencies - see also Hanley

1885-1918

Year		Member	Whip
1885		William Leatham Bright	Liberal
1890		George Leveson-Gower	Liberal
1895		Douglas Coghill	Liberal Unionist
1900		Douglas Coghill	Conservative
1906		John Ward	Liberal
1918	Constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Stoke-upon-Trent ^[1]^[2]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	William Leatham Bright	4,790	63.1
	Conservative	Haden Corser	2,800	36.9
Majority			1,990	26.2
Turnout				82.4
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1886: Stoke-upon-Trent ^[1]^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	William Leatham Bright	3,255	60.9	-2.2
	Conservative	Haden Corser	2,093	39.1	+2.2
Majority			1,162	21.8	-4.4
Turnout				58.0	-24.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.2

Elections in the 1890s

Stoke-upon-Trent by-election, 1890 ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George Granville Leveson-Gower	4,157
	Liberal Unionist	W S Allen	2,926
Majority			1,231
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1892: Stoke-upon-Trent ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George Granville Leveson-Gower	4,629
	Conservative	S Waters	2,846
Majority			1,783
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

Coghill

General Election 1895: Stoke-upon-Trent ^[2]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Unionist	Douglas Harry Coghill	4,396
	Liberal	George Granville Leveson-Gower	4,196
Majority			200
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

Godfrey Baring

General Election 1900: Stoke-upon-Trent ^[2]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Douglas Harry Coghill	4,932
	Liberal	Godfrey Baring	4,732
Majority			200
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

John Ward

General Election 1906: Stoke-upon-Trent ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Lib-Lab	John Ward	7,660
	Conservative	Douglas Harry Coghill	4,288
Majority			3,372
Turnout
	Lib-Lab gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

Ward

General Election January 1910: Stoke-upon-Trent ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Lib-Lab	John Ward	7,688
	Conservative	David Hope Kid	5,697
Majority
Turnout
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Stoke-upon-Trent ^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Lib-Lab	John Ward	7,049
	Conservative	Samuel Joyce Thomas	5,062
Majority
Turnout
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Liberal-Labour: John Ward
Unionist: Samuel Joyce Thomas

References

1 2 British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The Liberal Year Book, 1907
↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
Michael Kinnear, The British Voter (London: BH Batsford, Ltd, 1968)
Henry Pelling, Social Geography of British Elections 1885-1910 (London: Macmillan, 1967)
J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
Frederic A Youngs, jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)

City and Unitary Authority area of Stoke-on-Trent

Areas, towns and wards

History

Parliamentary constituencies

Current	Stoke-on-Trent North Stoke-on-Trent Central Stoke-on-Trent South

Historic	Burslem Hanley Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-upon-Trent

Religion

Tourism

Buildings	Bottle ovens Etruria Hall Ford Green Hall Trentham Mausoleum The Villas Wedgwood Institute Water World Winton Square (North Stafford Hotel)

Theatres	Regent Theatre Victoria Hall Theatre Royal

Museums and libraries	Burslem School of Art Ceramica Chatterley Whitfield Etruria Industrial Museum Gladstone Pottery Museum Montagu C. Butler Library Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Spode Museum

Shopping	City Sentral Potteries Shopping Centre

Parks and countryside	Berryhill Fields Hanley Park Hartshill Park Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival Trentham Estate

Sport and music venues	Britannia Stadium Golden Torch Jollees Longton Cricket Club Ground Meir Heath Cricket Club Shelley's Laserdome The Sugarmill The Underground Vale Park

Media

Publishing	Cross Rhythms G&Y Pits n Pots The Oatcake The Staffordshire Sentinel

Radio	BBC Radio Stoke Cross Rhythms City Radio Signal 1 Signal 2 UCB UK Stoke & Stafford (DAB Multiplex)

Education

Companies

Pottery	Aynsley China Beswick Pottery Burleigh Pottery Carlton Ware CERAM Churchill China Clayburn Pottery Dudson Emma Bridgewater Etruria Works Gray's Pottery James Sadler and Sons Ltd J. & G. Meakin Midwinter Pottery Mintons Moorcroft Palissy Paragon China Portmeirion Pottery Royal Doulton Royal Winton Shelley Potteries Spode Wedgwood W H Grindley

Other	Armitage Shanks Bet365 Canditv Clay Records Dechra Pharmaceuticals Goodwin Steel Castings Hanley Economic Building Society Randles Motor Group Shelton Bar Sons Ltd. Titanic Brewery Twyford Bathrooms Wrights Pies

Sport

Association football teams	Dresden United Eastwood Hanley Hanley Town Meir KA Norton United Port Vale Stoke City

Speedway teams	Stoke Potters Stoke Spitfires

Transport

Canals	Caldon Canal Trent and Mersey Canal

Public transport	D&G Bus First Potteries Stoke Streetcar

Rail	Longport railway station Longton railway station North Staffordshire Railway Stafford-Manchester Line Stoke-on-Trent railway station Stoke railway works

Major roads	A34 A50 A52 A53 A500 Longton Interchange

Miscellaneous

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