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==Creation and abolition== |
==Creation and abolition== |
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The constituency was created by the [[Reform Act 1832]] as the four-seat [[Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Yorkshire]] was divided in three, two-seat divisions for the [[United Kingdom general election, |
The constituency was created by the [[Reform Act 1832]] as the four-seat [[Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Yorkshire]] was divided in three, two-seat divisions for the [[United Kingdom general election, 1832|1832 general election]]. The divisions were abolished by the [[Redistribution of Seats Act 1885]]. It was replaced for the [[United Kingdom general election, 1885|1885 general election]] by single-member seats: [[Buckrose (UK Parliament constituency)|Buckrose]], [[Holderness (UK Parliament constituency)|Holderness]] and [[Howdenshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Howdenshire]]. |
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==Summary of results== |
==Summary of results== |
Revision as of 21:04, 28 October 2018
East Riding of Yorkshire | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | East Riding of Yorkshire |
1832–1885 | |
Seats | Two |
Created from | Yorkshire |
Replaced by | Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire |
East Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency covering the East Riding of Yorkshire, omitting Beverley residents save a small minority of Beverley residents who also qualified on property grounds to vote in the county seat (mainly business-owning forty shilling freeholders). It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament. A brief earlier guise of the seat covered the changed franchise of the First Protectorate Parliament and Second Protectorate Parliament during a fraction of the twenty years of England and Wales (and Scotland) as a republic.
First and Second Protectorate parliaments existence 1654-1658
The seat existed for the June 1654 to January 1655 parliament and for that following (July 1656 to September 1656). The East Riding electorate summoned four members simultaneously.
No. | Summoned | Elected | Assembled | Dissolved | Sessions | Speaker | Note |
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1st | 1 June 1654 | 1654 | 3 September 1654 | 22 January 1655 | 1 | William Lenthall | 1st Protectorate Parliament |
2nd | 10 July 1656 | 1656 | 17 September 1656 | 4 February 1658 | 2 | Thomas Widdrington | 2nd Protectorate Parliament |
Bulstrode Whitelocke | |||||||
3rd | 9 December 1658 | 1658/59 | 27 January 1659 | 22 April 1659 | 1 | Chaloner Chute | 3rd Protectorate Parliament |
Lislebone Long (Deputy) | |||||||
Thomas Bampfylde |
Creation and abolition
The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 as the four-seat Yorkshire was divided in three, two-seat divisions for the 1832 general election. The divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. It was replaced for the 1885 general election by single-member seats: Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire.
Summary of results
Candidates were elected unopposed at most of the elections throughout its existence; contested elections took place in 1837, 1868 and 1880. In these contests two Conservative candidates defeated a single Whig or Liberal.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1654–1658 (Protectorate Parliaments)
Election | First member | Second member | Third member | Fourth member |
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1654 | Sir William Strickland | Hugh Bethell | Richard Robinson | Walter Strickland |
1656 | Robert Lilburne | George Eure, 7th Baron Eure | Richard Darley | Hugh Darley |
MPs 1832–1885
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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1832 | constituency created by division of the Yorkshire constituency | |||||
1832 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Richard Bethell | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | Paul Thompson | Whig |
1837 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Henry Broadley | Conservative | |||
1841 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | The Lord Hotham | Conservative | |||
1851 by-election | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Hon. Arthur Duncombe | Conservative | |||
1868 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Christopher Sykes | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Harrison-Broadley | Conservative |
1885 | constituency abolished: see Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire |
Election results
Elections in the 1830s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Tory | Richard Bethell | 3,592 | K.A. | ||
Tory | Henry Broadley | 3,257 | K.A. | ||
Whig | P. B. Thompson | 2,985 | K.A. | ||
Turnout | 6,204 | 87.0 | K.A. |
Elections in the 1850s
Broadley's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Duncombe was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,538 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,382 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,221 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1860s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,400 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Christopher Sykes | 6,299 | 43.5 | K.A. | |
Conservative | William Harrison-Broadley | 5,587 | 38.6 | K.A. | |
Liberal | Benjamin Blaydes Haworth[3] | 2,603 | 18.0 | K.A. | |
Majority | 2,984 | 20.6 | K.A. | ||
Turnout | 8,546 (est) | 78.9 (est) | K.A. | ||
Registered electors | 10,827 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1870s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Christopher Sykes | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | William Harrison-Broadley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 10,722 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Christopher Sykes | 4,927 | 37.4 | K.A. | |
Conservative | William Harrison-Broadley | 4,527 | 34.4 | K.A. | |
Liberal | Henry John Lindley Wood[4] | 3,707 | 28.2 | K.A. | |
Majority | 820 | 6.2 | K.A. | ||
Turnout | 8,434 (est) | 81.0 (est) | K.A. | ||
Registered electors | 10,414 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
References
- ^ *The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 488. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
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