East Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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East Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832, when the four-seat Yorkshire constituency was divided in three for the 1832 general election, and abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. It was replaced for the 1885 general election by the new single-member constituencies of Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire.

Candidates were elected unopposed at most of the elections throughout its existence as a constituency; the only contested elections were in 1837, 1868 and 1880, on each of which occasions two Conservative candidates defeated a single Whig or Liberal.

Members of Parliament

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
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:British Whig Party/meta/color" \|	Paul Beilby Thompson	Whig
1837	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Richard Bethell	Conservative	Henry Broadley	Conservative
1841	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Lord Hotham	Conservative	Henry Broadley	Conservative
1851	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Lord Hotham	Conservative	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 Henry Harrison-Broadley	Conservative
1885	constituency abolished: see Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire

Election results

General Election 1837: East Riding of Yorkshire (2 seats)^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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.

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)

Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source]} ^{[better source needed]}

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[1] *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)

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