Bolton
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1832–1950
Seats	two
Created from	Lancashire
Replaced by	Bolton East and Bolton West

Bolton was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bolton in the county of Lancashire. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.

Created by the Reform Act of 1832, it was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was abolished in 1950, being split into single-member divisions of Bolton East and Bolton West.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st member		1st party	2nd member		2nd party
1832		Robert Torrens	Whig[1][2]		William Bolling	Tory[1][3]
1834						Conservative[1][3]
1835		Peter Ainsworth	Whig[4][5][1]
1837
1841					John Bowring	Radical[6][7][8][9][10][11][1]
1847		William Bolling	Conservative[12][13][14]
1848		Stephen Blair	Conservative[15][16]
1849					Sir Joshua Walmsley	Radicals[17][18][19]
1852		Thomas Barnes	Radical[20][21]		Joseph Crook	Radical[22][23]
1857		William Gray	Conservative
1859						Liberal
1861					Thomas Barnes	Liberal
1865
1868					John Hick	Conservative
1874		John Kynaston Cross	Liberal
1880					John Pennington Thomasson	Liberal
1885		Herbert Shepherd-Cross	Unionist		Francis Bridgeman	Unionist
1886
1892
1895			Conservative		George Harwood	Liberal
1900
1906		Alfred Henry Gill	Labour
Jan 1910
Dec 1910
1912					Thomas Taylor	Liberal
1914		Robert Tootill	Labour
1916					William Edge	Liberal
1918						Coalition Liberal
1922		William Russell	Conservative			National Liberal
1923		Sir Herbert Cunliffe	Conservative		Albert Law	Labour
1924					Cecil Hilton	Unionist
1929		Michael Brothers	Labour		Albert Law	Labour
1931		Sir John Haslam	Conservative		Sir Cyril Entwistle	Conservative
1935
1940		Sir Edward Cadogan	Conservative
1945		John Henry Jones	Labour		John Lewis	Labour
1950	constituency abolished: see Bolton East & Bolton West

Boundaries

1832–1885: The township of Great Bolton, Little Bolton, and Haulgh, except the detached part of the township of Little Bolton which was situate to the north of the town of Bolton.^[24]

1885–1918: The existing parliamentary borough, and so much of the municipal borough of Bolton as was not already included in the parliamentary borough.^[25]

Elections

1840s – 1850s – 1860s – 1870s – 1880s – 1890s – 1900s – 1910s – 1920s – 1930s – 1940s – References

Winning candidates are highlighted in bold.

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1832: Bolton (2 seats)^[26][1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Robert Torrens	627	36.7
	Tory	William Bolling	492	28.8
	Whig	John Ashton Yates	482	28.2
	Radical	William Eagle	107	6.3
Turnout			935	89.9
Registered electors			1,040
Majority			135	7.9
	Whig win (new seat)
Majority			10	0.6
	Tory win (new seat)

General election 1835: Bolton (2 seats)^[26][1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Bolling	633	40.4	+11.6
	Whig	Peter Ainsworth	590	37.7	+9.5
	Whig	Robert Torrens	343	21.9	−14.8
Majority			43	2.7	+2.1
Turnout			927	92.6	+2.7
Registered electors			1,001
	Conservative hold		Swing	+7.1
	Whig hold		Swing	+6.2

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General election 1837: Bolton (2 seats)^[26][1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Peter Ainsworth	615	34.9	−2.8
	Conservative	William Bolling	607