Elland (UK Parliament constituency)

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Elland was a parliamentary constituency in the West Riding of Yorkshire that existed between 1885 and 1950. Situated between Bradford in the North, Halifax in the West, and Huddersfield to the south, it included the mining town of Brighouse and the wool centre of Elland. With a sizeable Nonconformist population (estimated at 15 per cent in 1922), it was natural Liberal territory, and was a fairly safe Liberal and later Labour seat, falling to the Conservatives only in the 'khaki election' of 1918 and the Labour collapse of 1931. In the 1918 redistribution it lost some territory and it was abolished in 1950. A sizeable part of the area was transferred to the new Brighouse and Spenborough seat.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Thomas Wayman	Liberal
	1899 by-election	Charles Philips Trevelyan	Liberal
	1918	George Taylor Ramsden	Coalition Unionist
	1922	William Cornforth Robinson	Labour
	1923	Sir Robert Newbald Kay	Liberal
	1924	William Cornforth Robinson	Labour
	1929	Charles Roden Buxton	Labour
	1931	Thomas Levy	Conservative
	1945	Frederick Arthur Cobb	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
• Michael Kinnear, The British Voter: An Atlas and Survey Since 1885 (London: Batsford Academic and Educational Ltd., 1981, 2nd ed.)