Stalybridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Stalybridge officially sometimes written in early years as Staleybridge was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1868 until 1918 by one MP.

It comprised the borough of Stalybridge which lay in Lancashire and Cheshire and which is in the east of today's Greater Manchester.

On abolition for the 1918 general election under the Representation of the People Act 1918 the seat's main replacement became Stalybridge and Hyde.

Previously part of North Cheshire and South Lancashire Sidebottom's death caused a by-election.

The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;