The constituency was created for the 1885 general election. Before this, since 1832 a parliamentary borough of Stoke-upon-Trent had existed, covering almost the whole of what is now the Stoke-on-Trent conurbation and electing two MPs. In 1885, this was split into two constituencies electing a single member each, Stoke-upon-Trent in the south and Hanley in the north. Hanley became a parliamentary borough in its own right, and shortly afterwards also became a county borough.
The Hanley constituency in the 1885 to 1918 period included Burslem, as well as Hanley itself, and was one of the most populous urban constituencies in the country, with more than 100,000 inhabitants by the time of the First World War. Its main economic base was pottery, though both towns included substantial numbers of coal miners as well as pottery workers. Predominantly working class, it could be normally be considered a safeLiberal seat; however, the Conservatives managed a narrow victory as part of their national landslide in 1900, perhaps helped by lack of enthusiasm among the potters for the Liberal candidate, Enoch Edwards, who was one of the leaders of the miners' union. Edwards convincingly recaptured the seat in 1906, and with the rest of his union joined the Labour Party in 1909. At the by-election after his death, however, the Liberals regained the seat, with the Labour candidate a poor third.
By the time of the general election of 1918, the county borough of Hanley had been absorbed into an enlarged county borough of Stoke-on-Trent, and in the boundary changes implemented in that year the same process took place at parliamentary level. The new parliamentary borough of Stoke-on-Trent was accorded three seats in place of the two which the area had had since 1885, and was divided into three single-member constituencies, of which Stoke-on-Trent, Hanley was one. The new division was smaller than the old constituency, Burslem now having a seat of its own, and quickly became a safe Labour seat, though the Conservatives won it in their landslide year of 1931.
1885–1918: The municipal boroughs of Hanley and Burslem, and so much of the parliamentary borough of Stoke-upon-Trent as lay to the north of Hanley, and was not included in the local government district of Tunstall.[1]
1918-1950: The County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent wards numbers nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen.[2]
A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the autumn of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place.
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;
^"Chap. 23. Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885". The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom passed in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of the reign of Queen Victoria. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1885. pp. 111–198.
^Fraser, Hugh (1918). The Representation of the People Act, 1918: with explanatory notes. London: Sweet and Maxwell.
^Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
Michael Kinnear, The British Voter (London: BH Batsford, Ltd, 1968)
Henry Pelling, Social Geography of British Elections 1885-1910 (London: Macmillan, 1967)
Frederic A Youngs, jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
November 25, 2023
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Not to be confused with Henley UK Parliament constituency or Heeley UK Parliament constituency Hanley was a borough constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament MP to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1885 and 1950 Elections were held using the first past the post voting system HanleyFormer Borough constituencyfor the House of CommonsCountyStaffordshire1885 1950SeatsOneCreated fromStoke upon TrentReplaced byStoke on Trent Central Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Elections 4 1 Elections in the 1880s 4 2 Elections in the 1890s 4 3 Elections in the 1900s 4 4 Elections in the 1910s 4 5 Elections in the 1920s 4 6 Elections in the 1930s 4 7 Elections in the 1940s 5 ReferencesHistory editThe constituency was created for the 1885 general election Before this since 1832 a parliamentary borough of Stoke upon Trent had existed covering almost the whole of what is now the Stoke on Trent conurbation and electing two MPs In 1885 this was split into two constituencies electing a single member each Stoke upon Trent in the south and Hanley in the north Hanley became a parliamentary borough in its own right and shortly afterwards also became a county borough The Hanley constituency in the 1885 to 1918 period included Burslem as well as Hanley itself and was one of the most populous urban constituencies in the country with more than 100 000 inhabitants by the time of the First World War Its main economic base was pottery though both towns included substantial numbers of coal miners as well as pottery workers Predominantly working class it could be normally be considered a safe Liberal seat however the Conservatives managed a narrow victory as part of their national landslide in 1900 perhaps helped by lack of enthusiasm among the potters for the Liberal candidate Enoch Edwards who was one of the leaders of the miners union Edwards convincingly recaptured the seat in 1906 and with the rest of his union joined the Labour Party in 1909 At the by election after his death however the Liberals regained the seat with the Labour candidate a poor third By the time of the general election of 1918 the county borough of Hanley had been absorbed into an enlarged county borough of Stoke on Trent and in the boundary changes implemented in that year the same process took place at parliamentary level The new parliamentary borough of Stoke on Trent was accorded three seats in place of the two which the area had had since 1885 and was divided into three single member constituencies of which Stoke on Trent Hanley was one The new division was smaller than the old constituency Burslem now having a seat of its own and quickly became a safe Labour seat though the Conservatives won it in their landslide year of 1931 Hanley was abolished for the 1950 general election being largely replaced by the new Stoke on Trent Central constituency Boundaries edit1885 1918 The municipal boroughs of Hanley and Burslem and so much of the parliamentary borough of Stoke upon Trent as lay to the north of Hanley and was not included in the local government district of Tunstall 1 1918 1950 The County Borough of Stoke on Trent wards numbers nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen and sixteen 2 Members of Parliament editElection Member Party1885 William Woodall Liberal1900 Arthur Heath Conservative1906 Enoch Edwards Lib Lab1909 Labour1912 by election R L Outhwaite Liberal1918 James Andrew Seddon Coalition NDP1922 Myles Harper Parker Labour1924 Samuel Clowes Labour1928 by election Arthur Hollins Labour1931 Harold Hales Conservative1935 Arthur Hollins Labour1945 Barnett Stross Labour1950 constituency abolishedElections editElections in the 1880s edit General election 1885 Hanley 3 Party Candidate Votes Liberal William Woodall 6 136 69 1Conservative Francis Vers Wright 4 2 739 30 9Majority 3 397 38 2Turnout 8 875 80 9Registered electors 10 970Liberal win new seat General election 1886 Hanley 3 Party Candidate Votes Liberal William Woodall UnopposedLiberal holdElections in the 1890s edit General election 1892 Hanley 3 Party Candidate Votes Liberal William Woodall 5 825 59 3 N AConservative Arthur Heath 3 993 40 7 NewMajority 1 832 18 6 N ATurnout 9 818 77 1 N ARegistered electors 12 742Liberal hold Swing N AGeneral election 1895 Hanley 3 Party Candidate Votes Liberal William Woodall 5 653 51 3 8 0Conservative Arthur Heath 5 367 48 7 8 0Majority 286 2 6 16 0Turnout 11 020 85 4 8 3Registered electors 12 897Liberal hold Swing 8 0Elections in the 1900s edit General election 1900 Hanley 3 Party Candidate Votes Conservative Arthur Heath 6 586 52 6 3 9Lib Lab Enoch Edwards 5 944 47 4 3 9Majority 642 5 2 N ATurnout 12 530 78 4 7 0Registered electors 15 983Conservative gain from Liberal Swing 3 9General election 1906 Hanley 3 Party Candidate Votes Lib Lab Enoch Edwards 9 183 68 2 20 8Conservative Arthur Heath 4 287 31 8 20 8Majority 4 896 36 4 N ATurnout 13 470 83 4 5 0Registered electors 16 156Lib Lab gain from Conservative Swing 20 8Elections in the 1910s edit nbsp Enoch EdwardsGeneral election January 1910 Hanley 3 Party Candidate Votes Labour Enoch Edwards 9 199 63 9 4 3Conservative George Herman Rittner 5 202 36 1 4 3Majority 3 997 27 8 8 6Turnout 14 401 87 1 3 7Labour gain from Lib Lab Swing 4 3General election December 1910 Hanley 3 Party Candidate Votes Labour Enoch Edwards 8 343 64 2 0 3Conservative George Herman Rittner 4 658 35 8 0 3Majority 3 685 28 4 0 6Turnout 13 001 78 6 8 5Labour hold Swing 0 3 nbsp RL Outhwaite1912 Hanley by election 3 Party Candidate Votes Liberal R L Outhwaite 6 647 46 4 NewConservative George Herman Rittner 5 993 41 8 6 0Labour Samuel Finney 1 694 11 8 52 4Majority 654 4 6 N ATurnout 14 334 85 1 6 5Liberal gain from Labour Swing N AA General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915 By the autumn of 1914 the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election Due to the outbreak of war the election never took place Liberal Party R L Outhwaite Labour Party Myles Parker Unionist Party George Herman RittnerGeneral election 14 December 1918 Hanley 5 Party Candidate Votes C National Democratic James Seddon 8 032 40 4 NewLabour Myles Parker 7 697 38 7 35 5Independent Liberal R L Outhwaite 2 703 13 6 NewLiberal Leonard Lumsden Grimwade 1 459 7 3 N AMajority 335 1 7 N ATurnout 19 891 58 9 19 7National Democratic gain from Liberal SwingC indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government Elections in the 1920s edit General election 1922 Hanley 6 Party Candidate Votes Labour Myles Parker 10 742 48 8 10 1National Liberal James Seddon 6 312 28 7 11 7Liberal John Howard Whitehouse 4 942 22 5 15 2Majority 4 430 20 1 N ATurnout 21 996 67 4 8 5Labour gain from National Democratic Swing 10 9General election 1923 Hanley 6 Party Candidate Votes Labour Myles Parker 11 508 53 3 4 5Unionist James Seddon 5 817 26 9 1 8Liberal Ada Rowley Moody 4 268 19 8 2 7Majority 5 691 26 4 6 3Turnout 21 593 63 7 3 7Labour hold Swing 3 1General election 1924 Hanley 6 Party Candidate Votes Labour Samuel Clowes 13 527 53 0 0 3Unionist Frank Collis 11 976 47 0 20 1Majority 1 554 6 0 20 4Turnout 25 503 73 5 9 8Labour hold Swing 10 21928 Hanley by election 6 Party Candidate Votes Labour Arthur Hollins 15 136 60 2 7 2Unionist Alfred Denville 6 604 26 3 20 7Liberal Walter Meakin 3 390 13 5 NewMajority 8 532 33 9 27 9Turnout 25 130 69 9 3 6Labour hold Swing 14 0General election 1929 Hanley 6 Party Candidate Votes Labour Arthur Hollins 20 785 62 1 1 9Unionist Eric Errington 9 022 26 9 0 6Liberal Charles White 3 696 11 0 2 5Majority 11 763 35 2 1 3Turnout 33 503 72 5 2 6Labour hold Swing 0 6Elections in the 1930s edit General election 1931 Hanley 6 Party Candidate Votes Conservative Harold Hales 18 262 53 01Labour Arthur Hollins 15 245 44 25Commonwealth Land Party J W Graham Peace 946 2 75 NewMajority 3 017 8 76 N ATurnout 34 453 72 64Conservative gain from Labour SwingGeneral election 1935 Hanley 6 Party Candidate Votes Labour Arthur Hollins 17 211 52 01Conservative Harold Hales 15 880 47 99Majority 1 331 4 02Turnout 33 091 69 79Labour gain from Conservative SwingGeneral Election 1939 40Another 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 Labour Barnett Stross 7 Liberal National Frederick L BoultElections in the 1940s edit General election 1945 Hanley 6 Party Candidate Votes Labour Barnett Stross 21 915 68 00Conservative JPAL Doran 10 313 32 00Majority 11 602 36 00Turnout 32 228 73 64Labour hold SwingReferences edit Chap 23 Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom passed in the forty eighth and forty ninth years of the reign of Queen Victoria London Eyre and Spottiswoode 1885 pp 111 198 Fraser Hugh 1918 The Representation of the People Act 1918 with explanatory notes London Sweet and Maxwell a b c d e f g h i Craig FWS ed 1974 British Parliamentary Election Results 1885 1918 London Macmillan Press ISBN 9781349022984 The General Election The Morning Post 24 November 1885 p 2 Retrieved 28 November 2017 via British Newspaper Archive British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 1949 F W S Craig Glasgow Political Reference Publications 1969 a b c d e f g h British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 1949 FWS Craig Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party 1939 The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 London National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations 1913 Michael Kinnear The British Voter London BH Batsford Ltd 1968 Henry Pelling Social Geography of British Elections 1885 1910 London Macmillan 1967 Frederic A Youngs jr Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England Vol II London Royal Historical Society 1991 Leigh Rayment s Historical List of MPs Constituencies beginning with H part 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 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