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Oldham was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Oldham, in the historic county of Lancashire and the modern region of North West England. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act of 1832 and was abolished before the 1950 general election when it was split into the Oldham East and Oldham West consituencies.

The Oldham constituency was perhaps most notable for being where Winston Churchill began his political career. Although taking two attempts to succeed, in the 1900 general election Churchill was elected as the member of Parliament for Oldham. He held the constituency for the Conservative Party until he defected from them in defence of free trade in 1904. He then represented the Liberal Party as MP for the seat until the 1906 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1832 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Fielden Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Cobbett Liberal
1835 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Frederick Lees Conservative
1837 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Augustus Johnson Liberal
1847 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Johnson Fox Liberal rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Duncuft Conservative
1852 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Morgan Cobbett Liberal
1852 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Johnson Fox Liberal
1950 Multi member constituency abolished - see Oldham East and Oldham West

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