South East Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency)

South East Lancashire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1868–1885
Number of members	two
Replaced by	Eccles, Gorton, Heywood, Middleton, Prestwich, Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth, Stretford and Westhoughton
Created from	South Lancashire

South East Lancashire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was created by the Reform act of 1867 by the splitting of the South Lancashire constituency into South-West and South-East divisions.

The constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, being divided into eight single member divisions of Eccles, Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth, Gorton, Heywood, Middleton, Prestwich, Stretford and Westhoughton.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the Salford hundred of Lancashire except for those parts of the hundred lying in the Parliamentary boroughs of Ashton-under-Lyne, Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Rochdale, Salford and Stalybridge.

Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1868)

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1868		Algernon Egerton	Conservative		John Snowdon Henry	Conservative
1874					Edward Hardcastle	Conservative
1880		Robert Leake	Liberal		William Agnew	Liberal
1885	Constituency abolished

Elections

1868 general election

General Election 1868: South East Lancashire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Algernon Egerton	8,290	27.4	N/A
	Conservative	John Snowdon Henry	8,012	26.5	N/A
	Liberal	Frederick Peel	7,024	23.2	N/A
	Liberal	H. Y. Thompson	6,953	23.0	N/A

1874 general election

General Election 1874: South East Lancashire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Algernon Egerton	9,187	27.7
	Conservative	Edward Hardcastle	9,015	27.2
	Liberal	Peter Rylands	7,464	22.5
	Liberal	J. E. Taylor	7,453	22.5

1880 general election

General Election 1880: South East Lancashire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Leake	11,313	26.0
	Liberal	William Agnew	11,291	25.9
	Conservative	Algernon Egerton	10,569	24.2
	Conservative	Edward Hardcastle	10,419	23.9

Sources

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)