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Bury (UK Parliament constituency)

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Major settlements
  
Bury

Province
  
Québec

Number of members
  
1

Created from
  
Lancashire

Major settlement
  
Bury

Bury (UK Parliament constituency)

County
  
Lancashire (now Greater Manchester)

Replaced by
  
Lancashire, Bury and Radcliffe

Bury was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bury in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Map of Bury, QC, Canada

The constituency was created for the 1832 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Bury & Radcliffe.

Elections in the 1910s

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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

  • Liberal: Sir George Toulmin
  • Unionist:
  • Elections in the 1940s

    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 from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

  • Labour: William Harvey Moore
  • References

    Bury (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia