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Spalding (UK Parliament constituency)

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Number of members
  
1

Created from
  
South Lincolnshire

Spalding (UK Parliament constituency)

Replaced by
  
South Lincolnshire, Holland with Boston

Spalding was a county constituency in Lincolnshire, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

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: Francis McLaren
  • Unionist: William Royce
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