East Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire
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.

Parliaments of the Protectorate
No.	Summoned	Elected	Assembled	Dissolved	Sessions	Speaker	Note
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
2nd	10 July 1656	1656	17 September 1656	4 February 1658	2	Bulstrode Whitelocke	2nd Protectorate Parliament
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
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
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" \|	Richard Bethell	Conservative	Henry Broadley	Conservative
1841	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	The Lord Hotham	Conservative	Henry Broadley	Conservative
1851 by-election	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	The Lord Hotham	Conservative	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

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 Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "Y"

[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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