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Hyde
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
County	Cheshire
Major settlements	Hyde
1885–1918
Seats	One
Created from	East Cheshire
Replaced by	Stalybridge & Hyde

Hyde was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1918. It was seated in the town of Hyde, Cheshire.

From the 1918 general election onwards, the town has been represented in parliament through the constituency of Stalybridge and Hyde.

The constituency, officially Cheshire, Hyde Division, was created from the two-member Eastern division of Cheshire by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 as one of eight new single-member divisions of Cheshire. It consisted of the following parishes and townships in north east Cheshire: Bredbury, the part of Brinnington outside the Municipal Borough of Stockport, Godley , Hattersley, Hollingworth, Hyde, Marple, Mottram, Newton, Offerton, Romiley, Tintwistle, Torkington and Werneth.

The Representation of the People Act 1918 reorganised constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland. The bulk of the Hyde constituency was merged with parliamentary borough of Stalybridge to form the new seat of Stalybridge and Hyde. The Bredbury, Marple and Romiley areas passed to an expanded Macclesfield constituency, while Offerton and Torkington, which now formed part of the urban district of Hazel Grove and Bramhall, were included in Knutsford.

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Thomas Ashton	Liberal
	1886	Joseph Watson Sidebotham	Conservative
	1900	Edward Chapman	Conservative
	1906	Duncan Schwann	Liberal
	1910	Francis Neilson	Liberal
	1916 by-election	Thomas Owen Jacobsen	Liberal
	1918	Constituency abolished. See Stalybridge and Hyde

General election 1885: Hyde

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Ashton	4,546	53.3
	Conservative	William Legh	3,990	46.7
Majority			556	6.6
Turnout			8,536	91.5
Registered electors			9,328
	Liberal win (new seat)

General election 1886: Hyde

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Watson Sidebotham	4,328	52.7	+6.0
	Liberal	Thomas Ashton	3,885	47.3	−6.0
Majority			443	5.4	N/A
Turnout			8,213	88.0	−3.5
Registered electors			9,328
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+6.0

General election 1892: Hyde

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Watson Sidebotham	4,525	51.7	−1.0
	Liberal	Thomas Ashton	4,220	48.3	+1.0
Majority			305	3.4	−2.0
Turnout			8,745	90.8	+2.8
Registered electors			9,629
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.0

General election 1895: Hyde

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Watson Sidebotham	4,735	52.4	+0.7
	Liberal	George Wood Rhodes	3,844	42.6	−5.7
	Ind. Labour Party	George Smith Christie	448	5.0	New
Majority			891	9.8	+6.4
Turnout			9,027	88.4	−2.4
Registered electors			10,208
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.2

General election 1900: Hyde

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Chapman	4,774	53.2	+0.8
	Liberal	John Brunner	4,195	46.8	+4.2
Majority			579	6.4	−3.4
Turnout			8,969	88.5	+0.1
Registered electors			10,485
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.7

General election 1906: Hyde

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Duncan Swann	5,545	55.3	+8.5
	Conservative	Edward Chapman	4,482	44.7	−8.5
Majority			1,063	10.6	N/A
Turnout			10,027	88.6	+0.1
Registered electors			11,314
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+8.5

General election January 1910: Hyde

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Francis Neilson	4,476	39.5	−15.8
	Conservative	Tom Eastham	4,461	39.3	−7.6
	Labour	William Crawford Anderson	2,401	21.2	New
Majority			15	0.2	−10.4
Turnout			11,338	93.2	+4.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	-4.1

General election December 1910: Hyde

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Francis Neilson	5,562	51.4	+11.9
	Conservative	Tom Smith	5,268	48.6	+9.3
Majority			294	2.8	+2.6
Turnout			10,830	89.0	−4.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.3

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;

• Liberal: Francis Neilson
• Unionist: James Leadbitter Knott

1916 Hyde by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Owen Jacobsen	4,089	56.0	+4.6
	Independent	DP Davies	3,215	44.0	New
Majority			874	12.0	+9.2
Turnout			7,304	54.7	−34.3
	Liberal hold		Swing

• nominee of the National Union of Attested Married Men, an organisation opposed to the government's policy on conscription.

• History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Cheshire

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