Sowerby (UK Parliament constituency)

Sowerby
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County	West Riding of Yorkshire
1885 (1885)–1983 (1983)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Calder Valley
Created from	Northern West Riding of Yorkshire

Sowerby was a county constituency centred on the village of Sowerby in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

History

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Calder Valley constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Edward Crossley	Liberal
	1892	John William Mellor	Liberal
	1904 by-election	John Sharp Higham	Liberal
	1918	Robert Hewitt Barker	Independent NADSS
	1922	William Algernon Simpson-Hinchliffe	Conservative
	1923	Arnold Williams	Liberal
	1924	Geoffrey Reginald Devereux Shaw	Unionist
	1929	William John Tout	Labour
	1931	Malcolm McCorquodale	Unionist
	1945	John Belcher	Labour
	1949 by-election	Douglas Houghton	Labour
	Feb 1974	Max Madden	Labour
	1979	Donald Thompson	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished: see Calder Valley

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)