Background Information
Number of seats
2
Constituency business
County
Date Candidate Votes
24 Nov. 1885 MR HERBERT SHEPHERD-CROSS (Con)
7,933
HON. FRANCIS CHARLES BRIDGEMAN (Con)
7,655
J.K. Cross (Lib)
6,725
J.P. Thomasson (Lib)
6,228
H.M. Richardson (Ind C)
1,191
1 July 1886 MR HERBERT SHEPHERD-CROSS (Con)
7,780
HON. FRANCIS CHARLES BRIDGEMAN (Con)
7,668
J.C. Halsam (Lib)
6,452
R.C. Richards (Lib)
6,314
4 July 1892 MR HERBERT SHEPHERD-CROSS (Con)
8,429
HON. FRANCIS CHARLES BRIDGEMAN (Con)
8,140
F. Taylor (Lib)
7,575
J. Harwood (Lib)
7,536
13 July 1895 MR HERBERT SHEPHERD-CROSS (Con)
8,594
MR GEORGE HARWOOD (Lib)
8,453
Hon. F.C. Bridgeman (Con)
7,901
F. Brocklehurst (ILP)
2,694
1 Oct. 1900 MR HERBERT SHEPHERD-CROSS (Con)
MR GEORGE HARWOOD (Lib)
12 Jan. 1906 MR GEORGE HARWOOD (Lib)
10,953
MR ALFRED HENRY GILL (Lab)
10,416
Hon. G.J. Goschen (Con)
6,693
15 Jan. 1910 MR GEORGE HARWOOD (Lib)
12,275
MR ALFRED HENRY GILL (Lab)
11,864
M.W. Mattinson (Con)
7,479
P. Ashworth (Con)
7,326
3 Dec. 1910 MR GEORGE HARWOOD (Lib)
10,358
MR ALFRED HENRY GILL (Lab)
10,108
G. Hesketh (Con)
8,697
23 Nov. 1912 MR THOMAS TAYLOR (Lib) Death of Harwood
10,011
A. Brooks (Con)
8,835
22 Sept. 1914 MR ROBERT TOOTILL (Lab) Death of Gill
29 Feb. 1916 MR WILLIAM EDGE (Lib) Resignation of Taylor
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