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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1832		3,548/4,171	85.06
John Marshall	Whig	2,012	56.71
Thomas Babington Macaulay	Whig	1,984	55.92
Michael Thomas Sadler	Tory	1,596	44.98
Majority		388	10.94

1833 Resignation of Thomas Macaulay on appointment as a Member of the Council in India.

17 February 1834		3,892/5,062	76.89
Edward Baines	Whig	1,951	50.13
Rt Hon Sir John Beckett, bt	Tory	1,917	49.25
Joshua Bower	Radical	24	0.62
Majority		34	0.87

9 January 1835		3,633/4,774	76.10
Rt Hon Sir John Beckett, bt	Conservative Party	1,941	53.43
Edward Baines	Whig	1,803	49.63
Hon William Brougham	Whig	1,605	44.18
John Plumbe Tempest	Conservative Party	4	0.11
Majority		198	5.45

28 July 1837		3,719/5,579	66.66
Edward Baines	Whig	2,028	54.53
Sir William Molesworth, bt	Radical	1,880	50.55
Rt Hon Sir John Beckett, bt	Conservative Party	1,759	47.30
Majority		121	3.25

2 July 1841		4,092/6,316	64.79
William Beckett	Conservative Party	2,076	50.73
William Aldam	Whig	2,043	49.93
Joseph Hume	Radical	2,033	49.68
Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn	Conservative Party	1,926	47.07
Majority		10	0.24

30 July 1847		3,340/6,300	53.02
William Beckett	Conservative Party	2,529	75.72
James Garth Marshall	Whig	2,172	65.03
Joseph Sturge	Radical	1,978	59.22
Majority		194	5.81

9 July 1852		3,438/6,406	53.67
Sir George Goodman	Whig	2,344	68.18
Rt Hon Matthew Talbot Baines	Whig	2,311	67.22
Robert Hall	Conservative Party	1,132	32.93
Thomas Sidney	Conservative Party	1,089	31.68
Majority		1,179	34.29

30 December 1852 Resignation of Rt Hon Matthew Baines on appointment as President of the Poor Law Board.

3 January 1853
Rt Hon Matthew Talbot Baines	Whig	Unopposed

7 December 1855 Resignation of Rt Hon Matthew Talbot Baines on appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

6 February 1856
Rt Hon Matthew Talbot Baines	Whig	Unopposed

28 March 1857		4,473/6,204	72.10
Rt Hon Matthew Talbot Baines	Whig	2,329	52.07
Robert Hall	Conservative Party	2,237	50.01
John Remington Mills	Radical	2,143	47.91
Majority		94	2.10

25 May 1857 Death of Robert Hall.

5 June 1857		4,134/6,204	66.63
George Skirrow Beecroft	Conservative Party	2,070	50.07
John Remington Mills	Radical	2,064	49.93
Majority		6	0.15

30 April 1859		4,614/5,945	77.61
Edward Baines	Liberal Party	2,343	67.67
George Skirrow Beecroft	Conservative Party	2,302	66.48
William Edward Forster	Liberal Party	2,280	65.85
Majority		22	0.48

13 July 1865		6,197/7,217	85.87
George Skirrow Beecroft	Conservative Party	3,223	70.29
Edward Baines	Liberal Party	3,045	66.41
John Russell, Viscount Amberley	Liberal Party	2,902	63.29
Majority		143	2.31

17 November 1868		19,764/39,244	50.36
Edward Baines	Liberal Party	15,941	80.66
Robert Meek Carter	Liberal Party	15,105	76.43
William St James Wheelhouse	Conservative Party	9,437	47.75
Sir Andrew Fairbairn	Liberal Party	5,658	28.63
Hon Arthur Duncombe	Conservative Party	5,621	28.44
Majority		3,779	19.12

6 February 1874		25,094/45,991	54.56
Robert Meek Carter	Liberal Party	15,390	61.33
William St James Wheelhouse	Conservative Party	14,864	59.23
Robert Tennant	Conservative Party	13,194	52.58
Edward Baines	Liberal Party	11,850	47.22
Dr Frederic Richard Lees	Liberal Party	5,954	23.73
Majority		1,344	5.36

4 August 1876 Resignation of Robert Carter. (Northstead)

15 August 1876		30,446/48,313	63.02
John Barran	Liberal Party	16,672	54.76
William Lawies Jackson	Conservative Party	13,774	45.24
Majority		2,898	9.52

1 April 1880		36,783/49,000	75.07
Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone	Liberal Party	24,622	100.41
John Barran	Liberal Party	23,647	96.43
William Lawies Jackson	Conservative Party	13,331	54.36
William St James Wheelhouse	Conservative Party	11,965	48.79
Majority		1,366	3.71

1880 Rt Hon William Gladstone elects to sit for Edinburghshire.

8 May 1880		49,000
Herbert John Gladstone	Liberal Party	Unopposed

August 1881 Resignation of Herbert Gladstone on appointment as a Lord of the Treasury.

23 August 1881
Herbert John Gladstone	Liberal Party	Unopposed