Leek (UK Parliament constituency)

Leek
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
CountyStaffordshire
Major settlementsLeek
18851983
SeatsOne
Created fromNorth Staffordshire
Replaced byStaffordshire Moorlands and Stoke-on-Trent North[1]

Leek was a parliamentary constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Centred on the market town of Leek, it was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished nearly 100 years later for the 1983 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Staffordshire Moorlands constituency.

  1. ^ "'Leek', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 23 March 2016.