North Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Cheshire
North Cheshire
	Former county constituency; for the House of Commons
	Context: 1832-1868. Extract from 1837 result: the southern striped area inland of the broad Mersey estuary, wholly shown.
1832–1868
Number of members	2
Replaced by	East Cheshire; Mid Cheshire; Stalybridge
Created from	Cheshire

North Cheshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was created upon the division of Cheshire in 1832. In 1868 it was abolished with South Cheshire to form East Cheshire, Mid Cheshire, West Cheshire and Stalybridge.

Boundaries

1832–1868: The Hundreds of Macclesfield and Bucklow.[1]

Election	First member		First party		Second Party
1832		Hon. Edward Stanley	Whig[2][3][4]	William Egerton	Conservative
1841		George Legh	Conservative
1847		Hon. Edward Stanley	Whig[2][3][4]
1848 by-election		George Legh	Conservative
1858 by-election		George Legh	Conservative	Hon. Wilbraham Egerton	Conservative
1868	Second Reform Act: constituency abolished

By-election, 7 August 1858: Cheshire Northern[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Wilbraham Egerton	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Caused by Egerton's resignation by accepting the office of Steward of the Manor of Northstead

By-election, 8 June 1848: Cheshire Northern[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	George Legh	3,060	55.8	*N/A*
	Whig	Francis Dukinfield Palmer-Astley[6][7]	2,419	44.2	N/A
Majority			641	11.7	N/A
Turnout			5,479	76.2	N/A
Registered electors			7,188
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	N/A

General election 1841: Cheshire Northern (2 seats)[5][8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	William Egerton	2,782	36.4	*N/A*
	Conservative	George Legh	2,652	34.7	*N/A*
	Whig	Edward Stanley	2,206	28.9	N/A
Majority			446	5.8	N/A
Turnout			4,923 (est)	80.0 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			6,154
	Conservative hold
	Conservative gain from Whig

General election 1832: Cheshire Northern (2 seats)[5][8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Edward Stanley	2,556	39.3
	Tory	William Egerton	2,428	37.4
	Whig	John Richard Delap Tollemache	1,516	23.3
Turnout			4,346	85.1
Registered electors			5,105
Majority			128	2.0
	Whig win (new seat)
Majority			912	14.0
	Whig win (new seat)

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