Salford South (UK Parliament constituency)

Salford South
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885 map by Robert Owen Jones
1885–1950
Seats	one
Created from	Salford
Replaced by	Salford East and Salford West

Salford South was a parliamentary constituency in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester from 1885 until 1950.^[1] It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

History

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, which split the two-member Salford constituency into three divisions: Salford North, Salford South and Salford West. It was abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

1885–1918

The constituency of Salford, South Division was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and consisted of the following wards of the Borough of Salford: Crescent, Islington, Ordsall, St. Stephen's, and the part of Regent Ward east of the centre of Trafford Road.^[2]

1918–1950

The Representation of the People Act 1918 reorganised constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Salford South was redefined as consisting of seven wards of the county borough of Salford: Crescent, Islington, Ordsall, Regent, Trafford, Trinity and Weaste.^[3]

Abolition

The next redistribution of parliamentary constituencies took place under the Representation of the People Act 1948, and this led to the abolition of the Salford South constituency. Its area was divided between the borough constituencies of Salford East and Salford West.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Mather	Liberal
	1886	Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth	Conservative
	1900	James Grimble Groves	Conservative
	1906	Hilaire Belloc	Liberal
	1910	Sir Anderson Barlow	Conservative
	1923	Joseph Toole	Labour
	1924	Edmund Ashworth Radford	Conservative
	1929	Joseph Toole	Labour
	1931	John Stourton	Conservative
	1945	Edward Arthur Hardy	Labour
	1950	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: Salford South ^[4]^[5]^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Mather	3,761	50.4
	Conservative	Thomas Gibson Bowles	3,706	49.6
Majority			55	0.8
Turnout			7,467	85.7
Registered electors			8,717
	Liberal win (new seat)

General election 1886: Salford South ^[4]^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Howorth	3,615	50.9	+1.3
	Liberal	William Mather	3,489	49.1	−1.3
Majority			126	1.8	N/A
Turnout			7,104	81.5	−4.2
Registered electors			8,717
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+1.3

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Salford South ^[4]^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Howorth	3,406	46.5	−4.4
	Liberal	Alexander Forrest	3,369	46.0	−3.1
	Social Democratic Federation	William Knight Hall	553	7.5	New
Majority			37	0.5	−1.3
Turnout			7,328	80.9	−0.6
Registered electors			9,060
	Conservative hold		Swing	−0.7

General election 1895: Salford South ^[4]^[5]^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Howorth	3,384	45.1	−1.4
	Liberal	Alexander Forrest	3,310	44.1	−1.9
	Social Democratic Federation	H. W. Hobart	813	10.8	+3.3
Majority			74	1.0	+0.5
Turnout			7,507	81.5	+0.6
Registered electors			9,215
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.3

Elections in the 1900s

Mond

General election 1900: Salford South ^[4]^[5]^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Grimble Groves	4,207	58.5	+13.4
	Liberal	Alfred Mond	2,980	41.5	−2.6
Majority			1,227	17.0	+16.0
Turnout			7,187	78.9	−2.6
Registered electors			9,109
	Conservative hold		Swing	+8.0

Belloc

General election 1906: Salford South^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hilaire Belloc	4,230	55.6	+14.1
	Conservative	James Grimble Groves	3,378	44.4	−14.1
Majority			852	11.2	N/A
Turnout			7,608	88.0	+9.1
Registered electors			8,645
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+14.1

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Salford South^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hilaire Belloc	3,952	52.1	−3.5
	Conservative	Anderson Barlow	3,636	47.9	+3.5
Majority			316	4.2	−7.0
Turnout			7,588	90.9	+2.9
Registered electors			8,344
	Liberal hold		Swing	−3.5

General election December 1910: Salford South^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anderson Barlow	3,664	51.6	+3.7
	Liberal	C. Russell	3,439	48.4	−3.7
Majority			316	3.2	N/A
Turnout			7,103	85.1	−5.8
Registered electors			8,344
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+3.7

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;

• Unionist: Anderson Barlow
• Liberal: Francis Benedict Vincent Norris^[9]

General election 1918: Salford South^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Anderson Barlow	14,265	71.1	+19.5
	Labour	James Gorman	3,807	19.0	New
	Liberal	Francis Benedict Vincent Norris	1,994	9.9	−38.5
Majority			10,458	52.1	+48.9
Turnout			20,066	53.8	−31.3
	Unionist hold		Swing	+29.0
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Salford South^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Anderson Barlow	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Unionist hold

General election 1923: Salford South ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Toole	12,097	46.0	New
	Unionist	Anderson Barlow	9,366	35.6	N/A
	Liberal	Edgar Rees Jones	4,851	18.4	New
Majority			2,731	10.4	N/A
Turnout			26,314	72.2	N/A
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	N/A

General election 1924: Salford South^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Edmund Radford	15,163	51.2	+15.6
	Labour	Joseph Toole	14,455	48.8	+2.8
Majority			708	3.4	N/A
Turnout			29,618	79.6	+7.4
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General election 1929: Salford South ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Toole	20,100	54.4	+5.6
	Unionist	Edmund Radford	16,846	45.6	−5.6
Majority			3,254	8.8	N/A
Turnout			36,946	78.7	−0.9
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Salford South^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Stourton	22,140	59.1	+13.5
	Labour	Joseph Toole	15,302	40.9	−13.5
Majority			6,838	18.2	N/A
Turnout			37,442
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General election 1935: Salford South^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Stourton	16,236	50.5	−8.6
	Labour	Joseph Toole	15,932	49.5	+8.6
Majority			304	1.0	−17.2
Turnout			32,168	73.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1939–40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: John Stourton
• Labour:

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Salford South^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edward Arthur Hardy	13,941	60.4	+10.9
	Conservative	Murrough Richard O'Brien	9,150	39.6	−10.9
Majority			4,791	20.8	N/A
Turnout			23,091	72.6	−0.8
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

References

1. "Salford South 1885–1950". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Millbank Systems. Retrieved 22 July 2008.
2. Sixth Schedule. Divisions Of Boroughs: Number, Names, Contents, And Boundaries Of Divisions, Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (C.23)
3. Ninth Schedule, Redistribution of Seats, Part I, Parliamentary Boroughs, Representation of the People Act 1918 (C.64)
4. Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918. London: Macmillan Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-349-02298-4.
5. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
6. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
7. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
8. "Administrative unit Salford South PBDivCon". A Vision of Britain Through Time.
9. Monitor and New Era 8 Nov 1913
10. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)