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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