Leeds North

Borough constituency
House	House of Commons
Elects	One MPs
Created	1885 (1885)
Abolished	1955 (1955)

Leeds North was a borough constituency in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

Contents 1 History 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created in 1885 by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was first used in the general election of that year. Leeds had previously been represented by two MPs (1832-1868) and three MPs (1868-1885). From 1885 it was represented by five single-member constituencies: Leeds Central, Leeds East, Leeds North, Leeds South and Leeds West. The constituencies of Morley, Otley and Pudsey were also created in 1885.

The constituency was abolished in 1955. After the 1955 general election Leeds was represented by Leeds East (created 1885, abolished 1918, recreated 1955), Leeds North East (created 1918), Leeds North West (created 1950), Leeds South, and Leeds South East (created 1918). There were also constituencies of Batley and Morley (created 1918) and Pudsey (created 1885, replaced by Pudsey and Otley 1918-1950).

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Lawies Jackson	Conservative
	1902	Sir Rowland Hirst Barran	Liberal
	1918	Alexander Charles Farquharson	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Hugh Myddleton Butler	Conservative
	1923	Sir William Gervase Beckett	Conservative
	1929	Osbert Peake	Conservative
1955		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

[edit] References

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

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