Ashton-under-Lyne (UK Parliament Constituency) - Members of Parliament

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1832 George Williams Liberal
1835 Charles Hindley Liberal
1857 Thomas Milner Gibson Liberal
1868 Thomas Walton Mellor Conservative
1880 Hugh Mason Liberal
1885 John Edmund Wentworth Addison Conservative
1895 Herbert Whiteley Conservative
1906 Alfred Henry Scott Liberal
1910 Sir Max Aitken Conservative
1916 by-election Sir Albert Henry Stanley Conservative
1920 Sir Walter de Frece Conservative
1924 Cornelius Homan Conservative
1928 Albert Bellamy Labour
1931 John Broadbent Conservative
1935 Fred Brown Simpson Labour
1939 Sir William Jowitt Labour
1945 Hervey Rhodes Labour
1964 Robert Sheldon Labour
2001 David Heyes Labour

In the 1886 election, voting resulted in a tie between incumbent John Edmund Wentworth Addison and the Liberal candidate. Under the law of the day, the presiding officer chose the winner, and Addison was reelected.

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