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South West Lancashire
South West Lancashire
Former county constituency; for the House of Commons
County	Lancashire
1868–1885
Seats	Two
Created from	South Lancashire
Replaced by	Bootle, Ince, Leigh, Newton, Ormskirk, St Helens, Southport and Widnes.

South West Lancashire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was created by the Reform Act of 1867 by the splitting of the South Lancashire constituency into new South-East and South-West divisions.

The constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, being divided into eight single member divisions of Bootle, Ince, Leigh, Newton, Ormskirk, St Helens, Southport and Widnes.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the Lancashire hundred of West Derby except for the boroughs of Liverpool, Warrington and Wigan.^[1]

Election	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1868		R. A. Cross	Conservative	Charles Turner	Conservative
1875		R. A. Cross	Conservative	John Ireland Blackburne	Conservative
1885	Redistribution of Seats Act constituency abolished

R. A. Cross sought re-election after being appointed as Home Secretary.

By-election, 19 Mar 1874: South West Lancashire^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	R. A. Cross	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Charles Turner's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 6 Nov 1875: South West Lancashire^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Blackburne	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election 1880: South West Lancashire^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	R. A. Cross	11,420	27.7	*N/A*
	Conservative	John Blackburne	10,905	26.5	*N/A*
	Liberal	William Rathbone	9,666	23.5	New
	Liberal	Henry Molyneux^[3]	9,207	22.3	New
Majority			1,239	3.0	N/A
Turnout			20,599 (est)	79.1 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			26,054
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Cross was appointed Home Secretary, requiring a by-election.^[2]

By-election, 1 July 1885: South West Lancashire^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	R. A. Cross	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

^ "Representation of the People Act 1867" (PDF). Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 413. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
^ "The General Election". Liverpool Mercury. 23 March 1880. p. 6. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.