Hyde (UK Parliament constituency)
# Hyde (UK Parliament constituency)

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Hyde was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1918. It was seated in the town of Hyde, Cheshire.

From the 1918 general election onwards, the town has been represented in parliament through the constituency of Stalybridge and Hyde.

## Boundaries

The constituency, officially Cheshire, Hyde Division, was created from the two-member Eastern division of Cheshire by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 as one of eight new single-member divisions of Cheshire. It consisted of the following parishes and townships in north east Cheshire: Bredbury, the part of Brinnington outside the Municipal Borough of Stockport, Godley , Hattersley, Hollingworth, Hyde, Marple, Mottram, Newton, Offerton, Romiley, Tintwistle, Torkington and Werneth.

### Abolition

The Representation of the People Act 1918 reorganised constituencies throughout Great Britain. The bulk of the Hyde constituency was merged with parliamentary borough of Stalybridge to form the new seat of Stalybridge and Hyde. The Bredbury, Marple and Romiley areas passed to an expanded Macclesfield constituency, while Offerton and Torkington, which now formed part of the urban district of Hazel Grove and Bramhall, were included in Knutsford.

## Members of Parliament

| Election | Member | Party |
| - | - | - |
| 1885 | Thomas Ashton | Liberal |
| 1886 | Joseph Watson Sidebotham | Conservative |
| 1900 | Edward Chapman | Conservative |
| 1906 | Duncan Schwann | Liberal |
| 1910 | Francis Neilson | Liberal |
| 1916 by-election | Thomas Owen Jacobsen | Liberal |
| 1918 | Constituency abolished. See Stalybridge and Hyde | Constituency abolished. See Stalybridge and Hyde |

## Elections

### Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: Hyde :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Liberal | Thomas Ashton | 4,546 | 53.3 | |
| | Conservative | William Legh | 3,990 | 46.7 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 556 | 6.6 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,536 | 91.5 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 9,328 | | |
| | Liberal win (new seat) | Liberal win (new seat) | Liberal win (new seat) | Liberal win (new seat) | Liberal win (new seat) |

General election 1886: Hyde :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Conservative | Joseph Watson Sidebotham | 4,328 | 52.7 | +6.0 |
| | Liberal | Thomas Ashton | 3,885 | 47.3 | -6.0 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 443 | 5.4 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,213 | 88.0 | -3.5 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 9,328 | | |
| | Conservative gain from Liberal | Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +6.0 | |

### Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Hyde :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Conservative | Joseph Watson Sidebotham | 4,525 | 51.7 | -1.0 |
| | Liberal | Thomas Ashton | 4,220 | 48.3 | +1.0 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 305 | 3.4 | -2.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,745 | 90.8 | +2.8 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 9,629 | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -1.0 | |

General election 1895: Hyde :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Conservative | Joseph Watson Sidebotham | 4,735 | 52.4 | +0.7 |
| | Liberal | George Wood Rhodes | 3,844 | 42.6 | -5.7 |
| | Ind. Labour Party | George Smith Christie | 448 | 5.0 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 891 | 9.8 | +6.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 9,027 | 88.4 | −2.4 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 10,208 | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +3.2 | |

### Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Hyde :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Conservative | Edward Chapman | 4,774 | 53.2 | +0.8 |
| | Liberal | John Brunner | 4,195 | 46.8 | +4.2 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 579 | 6.4 | -3.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,969 | 88.5 | +0.1 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 10,485 | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -1.7 | |

General election 1906: Hyde :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Liberal | Duncan Swann | 5,545 | 55.3 | +8.5 |
| | Conservative | Edward Chapman | 4,482 | 44.7 | -8.5 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,063 | 10.6 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 10,027 | 88.6 | +3.1 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 11,314 | | |
| | Liberal gain from Conservative | Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +8.5 | |

### Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Hyde :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Liberal | Francis Neilson | 4,476 | 39.5 | -15.8 |
| | Conservative | Tom Eastham | 4,461 | 39.3 | -7.6 |
| | Labour | William Crawford Anderson | 2,401 | 21.2 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 15 | 0.2 | -10.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 11,338 | 93.2 | +4.6 |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | -4.1 | |

General election December 1910: Hyde :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Liberal | Francis Neilson | 5,562 | 51.4 | +11.9 |
| | Conservative | Tom Smith | 5,268 | 48.6 | +9.3 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 294 | 2.8 | +2.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 10,830 | 89.0 | -4.2 |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | +1.3 | |

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 Neilson
* Unionist: James Leadbitter Knott

1916 Hyde by-election :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Liberal | Thomas Owen Jacobsen | 4,089 | 56.0 | +4.6 |
| | Independent | DP Davies | 3,215 | 44.0 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 874 | 12.0 | +9.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 7,304 | 54.7 | -34.3 |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |

* nominee of the National Union of Attested Married Men, an organisation opposed to the government's policy on conscription.
