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Accrington was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. The original county constituency was replaced by a borough constituency for the 1918 general election. The constituency was based on the town of Accrington.

From the 1983 general election the constituency was abolished. The successor seat was Hyndburn, named after the local government area including the town of Accrington. 85.5% of the new seat came from the former Accrington constituency.

This constituency was part of the historic county of Lancashire in North West England.

1885-1918: In this period the constituency occupied the territory between Blackburn to the south west and Burnley to the north east. Darwen to the north, Clitheroe which looped around Burnley to just border Accrington on small parts of both its north and east borders and Rossendale to the south and south east were also adjacent constituencies.

1918-1983: The then local government areas in the constituency (before the local government reorganisation of 1974) were the Municipal Borough of Accrington and the Urban Districts of Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Oswaldtwistle, and Rishton.

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• ¹ Edwards contested the 1924 election as a Constitutionalist, with Liberal and Conservative support, but he took the Liberal Whip in the 1924-1929 Parliament.

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