Morley (UK Parliament constituency)

Morley
Former constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)–1918 (1918)
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Batley and Morley, Dewsbury, Rothwell and Spen Valley
Created from	Southern West Riding of Yorkshire

Morley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created when the two-member Southern West Riding of Yorkshire constituency was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. It was abolished for the 1918 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Batley and Morley constituency.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Charles George Milnes Gaskell	Liberal
	1892	Alfred Eddison Hutton	Liberal
	1910 (January)	Gerald Ashburner France	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished: see Batley & Morley

Election results

References

• British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)