Clitheroe (UK Parliament constituency)

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Clitheroe County constituency
Created:	1559
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons

Clitheroe was a constituency in Lancashire.

It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1832, and then one MP until it was abolished for the 1983 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Ribble Valley constituency.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 MPs 1660-1832 2.2 MPs 1832-1983 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1970s 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1832

Two members returned to Parliament

[edit] MPs 1832-1983

Year		Member	Party
1832		representation reduced to one member
	1832	John Fort	Liberal
	1841	Mathew Wilson	Liberal
	1842	Edward Cardwell	Conservative
	1847	Mathew Wilson	Liberal
	1853	John Thomas Walshman Aspinall	Conservative
	1853	Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie	Liberal
	1857	John Turner Hopwood	Liberal
	1865	Richard Fort	Liberal
	1868	Ralph Assheton	Conservative
	1880	Richard Fort	Liberal
	1885	Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth	Liberal
	1902	David James Shackleton	Labour
	1910	Albert Smith	Labour
	1918	Alfred Davies	Labour
	1922	Sir William Brass	Conservative
	1945	Harry Enos Randall	Labour
	1950	Richard Fort	Conservative
	1959	Sir Francis Pearson	Conservative
	1970	Alan David Walder	Conservative
	1979 by-election	David Waddington	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished: see Ribble Valley

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1970s

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[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs.