Blackpool (UK Parliament constituency)

Blackpool
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)–1945 (1945)
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Blackpool North and Blackpool South
Created from	North Lancashire

Blackpool was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Blackpool in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election, when it was replaced by the new Blackpool North and Blackpool South constituencies.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Frederick Stanley	Conservative
	1886	Sir Matthew Ridley	Conservative
	1900	Henry Wilson Worsley-Taylor	Conservative
	1906	Wilfrid Ashley	Conservative
	1918	Sir Albert Lindsay Parkinson	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Leonard Greenham Star Molloy	Conservative
	1923	Hugh Mowbray Meyler	Liberal
	1924	Sir Walter de Frece	Conservative
	1931	Clifford Erskine-Bolst	Conservative
	1935	Roland Robinson	Conservative
1945		constituency abolished: see Blackpool North and Blackpool South

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)