Manchester South (UK Parliament constituency)

For the Jamaican constituency, see Manchester Southern.

Manchester South was one of six parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 by the division of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester, England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system. The constituency was abolished in 1918.

Manchester South
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
Major settlements	Manchester
1885–1918
Seats	One
Created from	Manchester
Replaced by	Moss Side Rusholme

Boundaries

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and consisted of the following areas:^[1]

• The part of the civil parish of Chorlton upon Medlock south of the centres of the following roads: Cavendish Street, Grosvenor Street, Upper Brook Street, Dover Street, St. Leonards Street. (The remainder of the parish was included in the Manchester East constituency.)
• The Local Government district of Moss Side
• The Local Government District of Rusholme
• The detached part of the parish of Gorton included within the former parliamentary borough.
• The Hamlet of Kirkmanshulme (a detached part of the parish of Newton).

Redistribution

The seat was abolished in 1918, when the Representation of the People Act redrew constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Manchester's representation was increased to ten members of parliament, and the former Manchester South was divided between the areas of the new Moss Side and Rusholme constituencies.^[2]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[3]	Party[4]
	1885	Sir Henry Roscoe	Liberal
	1895	John Campbell	Liberal Unionist
	1900 by-election	William Peel	Liberal Unionist
	1906	Arthur Haworth	Liberal
	1912 by-election	Philip Glazebrook	Conservative
	1918 by-election	Robert Burdon Stoker	Conservative
	1918	constituency abolished

Election results

Decades:

1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s

Elections in the 1880s

Roscoe

General election 1885: Manchester South^[5][6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Henry Roscoe	3,791	54.8
	Conservative	Peter Royle	3,121	45.2
Majority			670	9.6
Turnout			6,912	81.0
Registered electors			8,534
	Liberal win (new seat)

General election 1886: Manchester South^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Henry Roscoe	3,407	52.6	−2.2
	Conservative	Thomas Sowler[8][9]	3,072	47.4	+2.2
Majority			335	5.2	−4.4
Turnout			6,479	75.9	−5.1
Registered electors			8,534
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.2

Elections in the 1890s

Emlyn

General election 1892: Manchester South^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Henry Roscoe	4,245	51.1	−1.5
	Conservative	Frederick Campbell	4,064	48.9	+1.5
Majority			181	2.2	−3.0
Turnout			9,309	81.2	+5.3
Registered electors			10,228
	Liberal hold		Swing	-1.5

Lorne

General election 1895: Manchester South^[5][6][10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	John Campbell	4,457	50.4	+1.5
	Liberal	Sir Henry Roscoe	4,379	49.6	−1.5
Majority			78	0.8	N/A
Turnout			8,836	80.7	−0.5
Registered electors			10,945
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+1.5

Elections in the 1900s

Peel

1900 Manchester South by-election^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	William Peel	5,497	61.4	+11.0
	Liberal	Leifchild Jones	3,458	38.6	−11.0
Majority			2,039	22.8	+22.0
Turnout			8,955	76.0	−4.7
Registered electors			11,788
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	+11.0

Jones

General election 1900: Manchester South^[5][6][10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	William Peel	5,122	57.1	+6.7
	Liberal	Edwyn Holt	3,850	42.9	−6.7
Majority			1,272	14.2	+13.4
Turnout			8,972	76.1	−4.6
Registered electors			11,788
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	+6.7

Haworth

General election 1906: Manchester South^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Haworth	8,002	68.0	+25.1
	Conservative	L Eaton Smith	3,770	32.0	−25.1
Majority			4,232	36.0	N/A
Turnout			11,772	82.8	+6.7
Registered electors			14,221
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+25.1

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Manchester South^[5][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Haworth	8,121	58.9	−9.1
	Conservative	Charles Ward-Jackson	5,669	41.1	+9.1
Majority			2,452	17.8	−18.2
Turnout			13,790	88.4	+5.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	-9.1

General election December 1910: Manchester South^[5][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Haworth	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

Glazebrook

1912 Manchester South by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Philip Glazebrook	7,051	52.1	New
	Liberal	Arthur Haworth	6,472	47.9	N/A
Majority			579	4.2	N/A
Turnout			13,523		N/A
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Unionist: Philip Glazebrook
• Liberal:

1918 Manchester South by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Robert Burdon Stoker	Unopposed
	Unionist hold

References

1. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 c.23, Schedule 6: Divisions of Boroughs
2. Representation of the People Act 1918 c.64, Schedule 9: Redistribution of Seats
3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)
4. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 152. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
5. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
6. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
7. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
8. "Manchester Worthies: Sir Thomas Sowler (1818-1891)". Manchester Faces & Places. 1 (5). 10 February 1890. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
9. "To the electors of South Manx". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 1 July 1886. p. 6. Retrieved 3 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
10. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
11. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

Sources

Election Results:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20060520143104/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1900.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20060520143047/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1945.htm

Viscount Emlyn:

• http://yba.llgc.org.uk/AnaServer?ybawbo+1281713+aview.anv+v=av&l=e&show=1

Leifchild Stratten Leif-Jones: