Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ashburton
County constituency
Created: 1885
Abolished: 1918
Type: House of Commons
Members: one
Ashburton
Borough constituency
Created: 1640
Abolished: 1868
Type: House of Commons
Members: two (1640–1832); one (1832–1868)

Ashburton was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament at Westminster, for one Parliament in 1298 and regularly from 1640 until it was abolished for the 1868 general election. It was one of three Devon borough constituencies newly enfranchised (or re-enfranchised after a gap of centuries) in the Long Parliament. It returned two Members of Parliament until the 1832 general election when the number was reduced to one MP.

From the 1885 general election Ashburton was revived as a county division of Devon. It returned one member until it was abolished from the 1918 general election.

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