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Elland (UK Parliament constituency)

Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1950Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885EllandParliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (historic)

Elland was a parliamentary constituency in the West Riding of Yorkshire that existed between 1885 and 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons, by the first-past-the-post voting system. Situated between Bradford in the North, Halifax in the West, and Huddersfield to the south, it included the mining town of Brighouse and the wool centre of Elland. With a sizeable Nonconformist population (estimated at 15 per cent in 1922), it was natural Liberal territory, and was a fairly safe Liberal and later Labour seat, falling to the Conservatives only in the 'khaki election' of 1918 and the Labour collapse of 1931. In the 1918 redistribution it lost some territory and it was abolished in 1950. A sizeable part of the area was transferred to the new Brighouse and Spenborough seat.

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Elland (UK Parliament constituency)
Sherburn Road, Calderdale

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N 53.692 ° E -1.803 °
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Sherburn Road

Sherburn Road
HD6 3JH Calderdale
England, United Kingdom
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