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
Winning candidates are highlighted in bold.
Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s
Bolling's death caused a by-election.
Bowring resigned after being appointed Consul-General at Canton, China, causing a by-election.
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Elections in the 1850s
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Elections in the 1860s
Crook's resignation caused a by-election.
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Elections in the 1870s
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Elections in the 1880s
CrossThomasson
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Elections in the 1890s
Shepherd-CrossHarwood
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Elections in the 1900s
GoschenGill
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Elections in the 1910s
Harwood's death causes a by-election.
Gill's death caused a by-election.
Taylor's resignation causes a by-election.
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)
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^Mosse, Richard B. (1838). The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses, etc. p. 144.
^Hardman, Malcolm (2003). Classic Soil: Community, Aspiration, and Debate in the Bolton Region of Lancashire, 1819-1845. London: Rosemont Publishing and Printing Corp. p. 170. ISBN 0838639666. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
^"Bolton". Bell's Weekly Messenger. 24 July 1847. p. 5. Retrieved 15 April 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Stephen Blair". Links in a Chain: Bolton Town Hall. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
^"The man who gave a hospital to Bolton". The Bolton News. 17 September 2002. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
^Zuch, Ronald K.; Ziegler, Paul R. (1985). "The Little Charter". Joseph Hume: The People's M.P. Ephrata: The American Philosophical Society. p. 147. ISBN 0871691639. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
^Collins, Neil (1994). Politics and Elections in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool. Abingdon: Scolar Press. p. 40. ISBN 9781859280768. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
^"Postscript". Coventry Herald. 9 February 1849. p. 4. Retrieved 15 April 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^Mineka, Francis E.; Lindley, Dwight N., eds. (1972). The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill: 1849-1873. Toronto: University of Toroton Press. p. 1226. ISBN 0710072945. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
^"The Verdict of the Country". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 24 July 1852. p. 5. Retrieved 15 April 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^Bebbington, D. W. "Unitarian Members of Parliament in the Nineteenth Century". University of Stirling. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
^Hawkins, Angus (2008). "Derby's Second Premiership: 1858–1859". The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby—Volume II, Achievement: 1851–1869. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 220. ISBN 9780199204403. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
^"The statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 & 3 William IV. Cap. LXIV. An Act to settle and describe the Divisions of Counties, and the Limits of Cities and Boroughs, in England and Wales, in so far as respects the Election of Members to serve in Parliament". London: His Majesty's statute and law printers. 1832. pp. 300–383. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^"Chap. 23. Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885". The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom passed in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of the reign of Queen Victoria. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1885. pp. 111–198.
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^"The Bolton Election". Manchester Times. 10 February 1849. p. 6 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000502/18490210/025/0006. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
^"Peter Ainsworth". Bolton Chronicle. 10 July 1852. p. 7. Retrieved 15 April 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ a b"Election Stories". Clare Journal, and Ennis Advertiser. 14 December 1868. p. 3. Retrieved 28 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Election Intelligence". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 8 July 1865. p. 10. Retrieved 28 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Poor Law Guardians for Bolton Union". Bolton Evening News. 25 March 1880. p. 3. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
^ a b c dBritish Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
^ a b cThe Liberal Year Book, 1907
^Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
^The Constitutional Year Book, 1906
^Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1896
^Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
^ a b c d e f g hCraig, F. W. S. (1974). British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (1 ed.). London: Macmillan.
^ a b c d eCraig, F. W. S. (1969). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (1 ed.). Glasgow: Political Reference Publications.
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^"UK General Election results November 1935". Political Science Resources. 22 October 2012. Birmingham Handsworth – Bristol North. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
^"UK General Election results July 1945". Political Science Resources. 22 October 2012. Birmingham Deritend – Bridgwater. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2016.