page_title: Melton (UK Parliament constituency)
section_title: Elections in the 1880s
hierarchical_section_title: Melton (UK Parliament constituency) / Elections / Elections in the 1880s
caption_attribution_description: English: Image cropped, rotated, and scaled using The GIMP.
context_page_description: Melton was a county constituency centred on the town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
  The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, when the former two-seat Northern Division of Leicestershire was replaced by two new single-seat county divisions: Melton and Loughborough. It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was succeeded by the Rutland and Melton constituency.
context_section_description: Manners was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, requiring a by-election.
  Manners succeeded to the peerage, becoming Duke of Rutland, causing a by-election.
caption: Lord John
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