Mid Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Cheshire
Mid Cheshire
	Former constituency; for the House of Commons
1868–1885
Replaced by	Altrincham; Hyde; Knutsford; Crewe; Macclesfield; Northwich
Created from	North Cheshire; South Cheshire

Mid Cheshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was created upon the abolition of North Cheshire and South Cheshire in 1868 and the redivision of Cheshire into Mid Cheshire, East Cheshire, West Cheshire and Stalybridge. In 1885, the first three of these were abolished and re-divided into eight constituencies: Altrincham, Crewe, Eddisbury, Hyde, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Northwich and Wirral.

Boundaries

1868–1885: The Hundreds of Bucklow and Northwich.[1]

	First member	First party	Second member	Second Party
1868	Hon. Wilbraham Egerton	Conservative	George Legh	Conservative
1873 by-election			Egerton Leigh	Conservative
1876 by-election			Piers Egerton-Warburton	Conservative
1883 by-election	Hon. Alan Egerton	Conservative	Piers Egerton-Warburton	Conservative
1885	Constituency abolished

General election 1868: Mid Cheshire[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Wilbraham Egerton	3,063	35.7	*N/A*
	Conservative	George Legh	3,056	35.7	*N/A*
	Liberal	John Warren	2,452	28.6	N/A
Majority			604	7.0	N/A
Turnout			5,512 (est)	77.0 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			7,158
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Legh resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 10 Mar 1873: Mid Cheshire[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Egerton Leigh	3,508	62.4	−9.0
	Liberal	George William Latham	2,118	37.6	+9.0
Majority			1,390	24.7	+17.7
Turnout			5,626	72.1	−4.9
Registered electors			7,801
	Conservative hold		Swing	−9.0

Leigh's death caused a by-election.

General election 1880: Mid Cheshire[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Wilbraham Egerton	3,868	27.3	*N/A*
	Conservative	Piers Egerton-Warburton	3,700	26.1	*N/A*
	Liberal	George William Latham	3,374	23.8	N/A
	Liberal	Vernon Armitage[3]	3,247	22.9	N/A
Majority			326	2.3	N/A
Turnout			7,095 (est)	79.2 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			8,963
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Egerton's elevation to the peerage, becoming Lord Egerton, caused a by-election.

By-election, 16 Mar 1883: Mid Cheshire[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Alan Egerton	4,214	54.0	+0.6
	Liberal	George William Latham	3,592	46.0	−0.7
Majority			622	8.0	+5.7
Turnout			7,806	78.7	−0.5 (est)
Registered electors			9,915
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.7

"Representation of the People Act 1867" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-07-27.
Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book)|format= requires |url= (help) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 360. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
"Mid-Cheshire". Liverpool Mercury. 7 April 1880. p. 7. Retrieved 19 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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