Prestwich was a constituency in the county of Lancashire of the House of Commons for the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, it was represented by one Member of Parliament. The constituency was abolished in 1918.

Boundaries The constituency of South-East Lancashire, Prestwich Division was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, with the official title. It consisted of an area of the parliamentary county of Lancashire between the boroughs of Salford and Oldham. It consisted of the following civil parishes and townships:Seventh Schedule: Counties at Large: Number of Members and Names and Contents of Divisions, Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, (1885 c.23) Blackley Chadderton Crompton Crumpsall Droylsden Failsworth Great Heaton Little Heaton Moston Prestwich Royton And the part of the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne not included in the municipal borough.

The electorate also consisted of the freeholders of the municipal boroughs of Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham who were entitled to vote in the county.

Abolition The constituency was abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1918, with its area divided between four new constituencies:Ninth Schedule - Part II, Parliamentary Counties: England, excluding Monmouthshire, Representation of the People Act 1918 (1918 c.64) Blackley, Crumpsall, and Moston (which had been added to the City of Manchester in 1890) became the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester Blackley. Chadderton, Great Heaton, Little Heaton and Prestwich became part of Middleton and Prestwich Division Droylsden and Failsworth were included in Mossley Division Crompton and Royton, along with five other urban districts, formed Royton Division.

Members of Parliament ElectionMemberParty 1885 Abel Buckley Liberal 1886 Robert Mowbray Conservative 1895 Frederick Cawley Liberal 1918 (January) Oswald Cawley Liberal 1918 (October) Austin Hopkinson Liberal1918 (December) constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

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; Liberal: Frederick Cawley Unionist: Frederick Brocklehurst

See also Prestwich-cum-Oldham

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