Hastings (UK Parliament constituency)

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Hastings Borough constituency
Created:	1366
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Hastings was a parliamentary constituency in Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1885 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member.

It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partially replaced by the new Hastings and Rye constituency.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 MPs 1660-1885 2.2 MPs 1885-1983 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1885

[edit] MPs 1885-1983

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Thomas Brassey	Liberal
	1886	Wilson Noble	Conservative
	1895	William Lucas-Shadwell	Conservative
	1900	Freeman Freeman-Thomas	Liberal
	1906	William Harvey du Cros	Conservative
	1908	Sir Arthur Philip du Cros	Conservative
	1918	Laurance Lyon	Coalition Conservative
	1921	Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy	Coalition Conservative
	1937	Maurice Robert Hely-Hutchinson	Conservative
	1945	Sir Neill Cooper-Key	Conservative
	1970	Kenneth Warren	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished: see Hastings & Rye

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.