East Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)
East Riding of Yorkshire | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
From 1832–1868. Extract from 1837 result: the seaside and riverside 'doubly' blue area. | |
County | East Riding of Yorkshire |
1832–1885 | |
Seats | Two |
Created from | Yorkshire |
Replaced by | Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire |
The 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 of the United Kingdom. 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 (Scotland and Ireland) existed 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 | Richard Bethell | Tory[1] | Paul Thompson | Whig[1][2] | ||
1834 | Conservative[1] | |||||
1837 | Henry Broadley | Conservative[1] | ||||
1841 | The Lord Hotham | Conservative[1] | ||||
1851 by-election | Hon. Arthur Duncombe | Conservative | ||||
1868 | Christopher Sykes | Conservative | 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 | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Paul Thompson | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 5,559 | ||||
Tory win (new seat) | |||||
Whig win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Conservative | Richard Bethell | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Paul Thompson | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 5,140 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Bethell | 3,592 | 36.5 | ||
Conservative | Henry Broadley | 3,257 | 33.1 | ||
Whig | Paul Thompson | 2,985 | 30.4 | ||
Majority | 272 | 2.7 | |||
Turnout | 6,204 | 86.4 | |||
Registered electors | 7,180 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Whig |
Elections in the 1840s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Henry Broadley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,640 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Henry Broadley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,740 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,538 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Harrison-Broadley | 5,587 | 38.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Benjamin Blaydes Haworth[5] | 2,603 | 18.0 | New | |
Majority | 2,984 | 20.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,546 (est.) | 78.9 (est.) | N/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 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Harrison-Broadley | 4,527 | 34.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Henry John Lindley Wood[6] | 3,707 | 28.2 | New | |
Majority | 820 | 6.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,434 (est.) | 81.0 (est.) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 10,414 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. p. 138. Retrieved 11 August 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ Churton, Edward (1836). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer. p. 169. Retrieved 11 August 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 488. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
- ^ *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)
- ^ "To the Electors of the Eastern Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 21 November 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 24 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "County Constituencies". Yorkshire Gazette. 3 April 1880. p. 4. Retrieved 23 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.