Spalding was a county constituency in Lincolnshire, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.
Members of Parliament YearMemberParty 1885 Murray Finch-Hatton Conservative 1887 Halley Stewart Liberal 1895 Harry Pollock Liberal Unionist 1900 Horace Rendall Mansfield Liberal 1910 Francis McLaren Liberal 1917 George Peel Liberal 1918 constituency abolished
Elections Elections in the 1880s
Finch-Hatton succeeded to the peerage, becoming Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, causing a by-election.
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: Francis McLaren Unionist: William Royce
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