Hanley (UK Parliament constituency)

Hanley
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Staffordshire
1885–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Stoke-on-Trent Central
Created from	Stoke-upon-Trent

Hanley was a borough constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament 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.

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 Members of Parliament
  


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  3 Elections
  
  
  
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    3.1 Elections in the 1880s
    
  
  
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    3.2 Elections in the 1890s
    
  
  
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    3.3 Elections in the 1900s
    
  
  
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    3.4 Elections in the 1910s
    
  
  
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    3.5 Elections in the 1920s
    
  
  
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    3.6 Elections in the 1930s
    
  
  
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    3.7 Elections in the 1940s
    
  
  
  
  


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  4 References
  

History

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 2 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 1885-1918 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.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Woodall	Liberal
	1900	Arthur Heath	Conservative
	1906	Enoch Edwards	Lib-Lab
	1909		Labour
	1912 by-election	R. L. Outhwaite	Liberal
	1918	James Andrew Seddon	Coalition NDP
	1922	Myles Harper Parker	Labour
	1924	Samuel Clowes	Labour
	1928 by-election	Arthur Hollins	Labour
	1931	Harold Hales	Conservative
	1935	Arthur Hollins	Labour
	1945	Barnett Stross	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Hanley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	William Woodall	6,136	69.1	N/A
	Conservative	Francis Vers Wright[2]	2,739	30.9	N/A
Majority			3,397	38.2	N/A
Turnout			8,875	80.9	N/A
Registered electors			10,970
	Liberal win (new seat)

General Election 1886: Hanley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	William Woodall	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Hanley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	William Woodall	5,825	59.3	N/A
	Conservative	Arthur Heath	3,993	40.7	N/A
Majority			1,832	18.6	N/A
Turnout			9,818	77.1	N/A
Registered electors			12,742
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1895: Hanley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	William Woodall	5,653	51.3	−8.0
	Conservative	Arthur Heath	5,367	48.7	+8.0
Majority			286	2.6	−16.0
Turnout			11,020	85.4	+8.3
Registered electors			12,897
	Liberal hold		Swing	−8.0

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Hanley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Arthur Heath	6,586	52.6	+3.9
	Lib-Lab	Enoch Edwards	5,944	47.4	−3.9
Majority			642	5.2	N/A
Turnout			12,530	78.4	−7.0
Registered electors			15,983
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+3.9

General Election 1906: Hanley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Lib-Lab	Enoch Edwards	9,183	68.2	+20.8
	Conservative	Arthur Heath	4,287	31.8	−20.8
Majority			4,896	36.4	N/A
Turnout			13,470	83.4	+5.0
Registered electors			16,156
	Lib-Lab gain from Conservative		Swing	+20.8

Elections in the 1910s

Enoch Edwards

General Election January 1910: Hanley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Enoch Edwards	9,199	63.9	-4.3
	Conservative	George Herman Rittner	5,202	36.1	+4.3
Majority				27.8	-8.6
Turnout				87.1	+3.7
	Labour gain from Lib-Lab		Swing	-4.3

General Election December 1910: Hanley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Enoch Edwards	8,343	64.2	+0.3
	Conservative	George Herman Rittner	4,658	35.8	-0.3
Majority			3,685	28.4	+0.6
Turnout				78.6	-8.5
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.3

RL Outhwaite

Hanley by-election, 1912^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	R. L. Outhwaite	6,647	46.4	n/a
	Conservative	George Herman Rittner	5,993	41.8	+6.0
	Labour	Samuel Finney	1,694	11.8	-52.4
Majority			654	4.6	33.0
Turnout				85.1	+6.5
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing	n/a

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.

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  Liberal Party: R. L. Outhwaite
  


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  Labour Party: Myles Parker
  


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  Unionist Party: George Herman Rittner

General Election 14 December 1918: Hanley^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
C	National Democratic	James Seddon	8,032	40.4	n/a
	Labour	Myles Parker	7,697	38.7	+26.9
	Independent Liberal	R. L. Outhwaite	2,703	13.6	-32.8
	Liberal	Leonard Lumsden Grimwade	1,459	7.3	-39.1
Majority			335	1.7	n/a
Turnout				58.9	-26.2
	National Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Hanley^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Myles Parker	10,742	48.8	+10.1
	Independent	James Seddon	6,312	28.7	-11.7
	Liberal	John Howard Whitehouse	4,942	22.5	+15.2
Majority			4,430	20.1	21.8
Turnout				67.4	+8.5
	Labour gain from National Democratic		Swing	+10.9

General Election 1923: Hanley ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Myles Parker	11,508	53.3	+4.5
	Unionist	James Seddon	5,817	26.9	-1.8
	Liberal	Ada R Moody	4,268	19.8	-2.7
Majority			5,691	26.4	+6.3
Turnout				63.7	-3.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.1

General Election 1924: Hanley^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Samuel Clowes	13,527	53.0	-0.3
	Unionist	Frank Collis	11,976	47.0	+20.1
Majority			1,554	6.0	-20.4
Turnout				73.5	+9.8
	Labour hold		Swing	-10.2

Hanley by-election, 1928^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Arthur Hollins	15,136	60.2	+7.2
	Unionist	Alfred Denville	6,604	26.3	-20.7
	Liberal	Walter Meakin	3,390	13.5	n/a
Majority			8,532	33.9	+27.9
Turnout				69.9	-3.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+14.0

General Election 1929: Hanley^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Arthur Hollins	20,785	62.1	+1.9
	Unionist	Eric Errington	9,022	26.9	+0.6
	Liberal	Charles White	3,696	11.0	-2.5
Majority			11,763	35.2	+1.3
Turnout				72.5	+2.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.6

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Hanley^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Harold Hales	18,262	53.01
	Labour	Arthur Hollins	15,245	44.25
	Commonwealth Land Party	J. W. Graham Peace	946	2.75
Majority			3,017	8.76
Turnout			34,453	72.64
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Hanley^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Arthur Hollins	17,211	52.01
	Conservative	Harold Hales	15,880	47.99
Majority			1,331	4.02
Turnout			33,091	69.79
	Labour gain from Conservative		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;

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  Labour: Barnett Stross^[11]
  


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  Liberal National: Frederick L Boult

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Hanley^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Barnett Stross	21,915	68.00
	Conservative	JPAL Doran	10,313	32.00
Majority			11,602	36.00
Turnout				73.64
	Labour hold		Swing

References

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   ^ "The General Election". The Morning Post. 24 Nov 1885. p. 2. Retrieved 28 November 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
   


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   ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969)
   


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   ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
   


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   ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
   


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   ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
   


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   ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
   


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   ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
   


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   ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
   


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    ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
    


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    ^ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
    


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    ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
    

• 
  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)

v t e City and Unitary Authority area of Stoke-on-Trent
Areas, towns and wards	Abbey Green ward Abbey Hulton Banky Brook Basford Bentilee Birches Head Blurton Blythe Bridge Bradeley Bucknall Burslem Chell Cliffe Vale Cobridge Dresden Etruria Fenton Goldenhill Hanley Hartshill Heron Cross Lightwood Longport Longton Meir Middleport Milton Norton le Moors Penkhull Shelton Sideway Smallthorne Sneyd Green Stoke-upon-Trent Trentham Trent Vale Tunstall Weston Coyney
History	Ceramic and Allied Trades Union Darwin–Wedgwood family Federation of Stoke-on-Trent History of Port Vale F.C. History of Stoke City F.C. Staffordshire Potteries Wedgwood Pottery In Stoke-on-Trent 1842 Pottery riots
Parliamentary constituencies	Current Stoke-on-Trent North Stoke-on-Trent Central Stoke-on-Trent South Historic Burslem Hanley Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-upon-Trent
Religion	Stoke Minster Bethesda Methodist Chapel Hulton Abbey Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church
Tourism	Buildings Bottle ovens Etruria Hall Ford Green Hall Old Town Hall, Burslem Trentham Mausoleum The Villas Wedgwood Institute Water World Winton Square (North Stafford Hotel) Theatres Regent Theatre Victoria Hall Theatre Royal Museums and libraries Burslem School of Art Chatterley Whitfield Etruria Industrial Museum Gladstone Pottery Museum Montagu C. Butler Library Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Spode Museum Shopping City Sentral Potteries Shopping Centre Parks and countryside Berryhill Fields Hanley Park Hartshill Park Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival Trentham Estate Sport and music venues Bet365 Stadium Golden Torch Jollees Longton Cricket Club Ground Meir Heath Cricket Club Shelley's Laserdome The Sugarmill The Underground Vale Park
Media	Publishing Cross Rhythms G&Y Pits n Pots The Oatcake The Sentinel Radio BBC Radio Stoke Cross Rhythms City Radio Signal 1 Signal 2 UCB UK Stoke & Stafford (DAB Multiplex)
Education	List of schools Stoke-on-Trent College City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College Staffordshire University Royal Stoke University Hospital
Companies	Pottery Aynsley China Beswick Pottery Burleigh Pottery Carlton Ware Churchill China Clayburn Pottery Dudson Emma Bridgewater Etruria Works Gray's Pottery James Sadler and Sons Ltd Lucideon J. & G. Meakin Midwinter Pottery Mintons Moorcroft Palissy Paragon China Portmeirion Pottery Royal Doulton Royal Winton Shelley Potteries Spode Steelite Wedgwood W H Grindley Other Armitage Shanks Bet365 Canditv Clay Records Dechra Pharmaceuticals Goodwin Steel Castings Hanley Economic Building Society Randles Motor Group Shelton Bar Sons Ltd. Titanic Brewery Twyford Bathrooms Wrights Pies
Sport	Association football teams Abbey Hulton United Dresden United Eastwood Hanley Hanley Town Meir KA Norton United Port Vale Stoke City Speedway teams Stoke Potters Stoke Spitfires
Transport	Canals Caldon Canal Trent and Mersey Canal Public transport D&G Bus First Potteries Stoke Streetcar Rail Longport railway station Longton railway station North Staffordshire Railway Stafford–Manchester line Stoke-on-Trent railway station Stoke railway works Major roads A34 A50 A52 A53 A500 Longton Interchange
Miscellaneous	List of people Lobby May un Mar Lady Oatcake Owd Grandad Piggott Potteries derby Potteries dialect River Trent Sanity Fair Start Up Citywide ST postcode area

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