Leeds South was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election. In the United Kingdom each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly. ... Statistics Population: 443,247 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE297338 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Leeds Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Police Ambulance service... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ... The 1885 UK general election was from the 24th November - 18th December 1885. ... The UK general election, 1983 was held on June 9, 1983 and gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945. ...

It was then largely replaced by the new Leeds South and Morley constituency.

Members of Parliament

• 1885 – 1892: Sir Lyon Playfair, later Baron Playfair
• 1892 – 1908: Sir John Lawson Walton
• 1908 – 1922: Sir William Middlebrook Coalition Liberal
• 1922 – 1931: Henry Charles Charleton (Labour)
• 1931 – 1935: Borras Noel Hamilton Whiteside (Conservative)
• 1935 – 1945: Henry Charles Charleton (Labour)
• 1945 – 1963: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour)
• 1963 – 1983: Merlyn Rees (Labour)

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