Bristol (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bristol
Borough constituency
Created: 1295
Abolished: 1885
Type: House of Commons
Members: two

Bristol was a former two member constituency, used to elect members to the House of Commons in the Parliaments of England (to 1707), Great Britain (1707-1800) and the United Kingdom (from 1801). The constituency existed until Bristol was divided into single member constituencies in 1885.

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[edit] Boundaries

The historic port city of Bristol, is located in what is now the South West Region of England. It straddles the border between the historic geographical counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset. It was usually accounted as a Gloucestershire borough in the later part of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.

The parliamentary borough of Bristol was represented in Parliament from the thirteenth century, as one of the most important population centres in the Kingdom. Namier and Brooke comment that in 1754 the city was the second largest in the Kingdom and had the third largest electorate for an urban seat.

From the United Kingdom general election, 1885 the city was divided into four single member seats. These were Bristol East, Bristol North, Bristol South and Bristol West.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Dates of Parliaments 1660-1715

Summoned Elected Opened Dismissed
16 March 1660 1660 25 April 1660 29 December 1660
18 February 1661 1661 8 May 1661 24 January 1679
25 January 1679 1679 6 March 1679 12 July 1679
24 July 1679 1679-1680 21 October 1680 18 January 1681
20 January 1681 1681 21 March 1681 28 March 1681
14 February 1685 1685 19 May 1685 2 July 1687
29 December 1688 1688-1689 22 January 1689 6 February 1690
6 February 1690 1690 20 March 1690 11 October 1695
12 October 1695 1695 22 November 1695 6 July 1698
13 July 1698 1698 24 August 1698 19 December 1700
26 December 1700 1700-1701 6 February 1701 11 November 1701
3 November 1701 1701 30 December 1701 2 July 1702
2 July 1702 1702 20 August 1702 5 April 1705
1705 7 May-6 June 1705 14 June 1705 see Note
1707 see Note 23 October 1707 3 April 1708
1708 30 April-7 July 1708 8 July 1708 21 September 1710
1710 2 October-16 November 1710 25 November 1710 8 August 1713
1713 22 August-12 November 1713 12 November 1713 15 January 1715

Note:-

  • The MPs of the Parliament of England (elected 1705) and 45 members co-opted from the former Parliament of Scotland, became the House of Commons of the 1st Parliament of Great Britain in 1707.

[edit] List of Members of Parliament

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The use of roman numerals in the list below denotes different politicians of the same name, not that the individuals concerned would have used the roman numerals as part of their name.

Non Partisan denotes that the politician concerned is not known to have been associated with a party (not necessarily that he was not). It should be noted that whilst Whig and Tory societies in the city continued to nominate candidates in the last half of the eighteenth century, the electoral labels used in Bristol had very little to do with what the MPs did in national politics.

Year 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1295 constituency established
1660 John Stephens Non Partisan Sir John Knight I Non Partisan
1661 The Earl of Ossory 1 Non Partisan
1666 Sir Humphrey Hooke 2 Non Partisan
1678 Sir Robert Cann Non Partisan
1681 Thomas Earle Non Partisan
1681 Sir Richard Hart Non Partisan
1685 Sir John Churchill 3 Non Partisan Sir Richard Crumpe Non Partisan
1685 Sir Richard Hart Non Partisan
1689 Sir John Knight II Non Partisan
1695 Sir Thomas Day Non Partisan Robert Yate Non Partisan
1701 Sir William Daines Non Partisan
1710 Edward Colston Tory Joseph Earle Non Partisan
1713 Thomas Edwards Non Partisan
1715 Sir William Daines Non Partisan
1722 Sir Abraham Elton, Bt I Non Partisan
1727 John Scrope Non Partisan Sir Abraham Elton, Bt II 5 Non Partisan
1734 Thomas Coster 4 Non Partisan
1739 Edward Southwell Non Partisan
1742 Robert Hoblyn Non Partisan
1754 Robert Craggs-Nugent
(later The Viscount Clare) 7		 Whig Richard Beckford 6 Tory
1756 Jarrit Smith Tory
1768 Matthew Brickdale Tory
1774 Henry Cruger Whig Edmund Burke Whig
1780 Matthew Brickdale Tory Sir Henry Lippincott, Bt 8 Tory
1781 George Daubeny Tory
1784 Henry Cruger Whig
1790 Marquess of Worcester Tory The Lord Sheffield 9 Whig
1796 Charles Bragge
(later Charles Bragge Bathurst) 10		 Tory
1802 Evan Baillie Whig
1812 Richard Hart Davis Tory
1812 Edward Protheroe I Whig
1820 Henry Bright Whig
1830 James Evan Baillie Whig
1831 Edward Protheroe II Whig
1832 Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt Conservative Liberal
1835 Philip John Miles Conservative
1837 Philip William Skinner Miles Conservative Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley 12 Liberal
1852 William Henry Gore-Langton Liberal
1865 Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Bt 11 Liberal
1868 John William Miles Conservative
1868 Samuel Morley Liberal
1870 Elisha Smith Robinson 13 Liberal
1870 Kirkham Daniel Hodgson 11 Liberal
1878 Lewis Fry Liberal
1885 constituency divided

Notes:-

[edit] Elections

During the existence of this constituency, Bristol was a city with the status of being a county of itself. That meant that the city was not subject to the administration of the officials of the geographic counties in which it was situated. In electoral terms it meant that the voters for the parliamentary borough included those qualified on the same 40 shilling freeholder franchise as that for a county constituency. Other electors qualified as freemen of the borough. These were the ancient right franchises, applicable to Bristol, preserved by the Reform Act 1832, which also introduced a broader occupation franchise for all borough constituencies.

The bloc vote electoral system was used in two seat elections and first past the post for single member by-elections. Each voter had up to as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings (until the secret ballot was introduced in 1872).

Namier and Brooke, in The House of Commons 1754-1790, estimated the electorate of Bristol to number about 5,000. When registration of electors was introduced in 1832 the city had 10,315 names on the electoral register.

Note on percentage change calculations: Where there was only one candidate of a party in successive elections, for the same number of seats, change is calculated on the party percentage vote. Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote.

Note on sources: The information for the election results given below is taken from Sedgwick 1715-1754, Namier and Brooke 1754-1790, Stooks Smith 1790-1832 and from Craig thereafter. Where Stooks Smith gives additional information or differs from the other sources this is indicated in a note after the result.

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1710s – 1720s – 1730s – 1740s – 1750s – 1760s – 1770s – 1780s – 1790s – 1800s – 1810s – 1820s – 1830s – 1840s – 1850s – 1860s – 1870s – 1880s

[edit] Elections in the 1710s

General Election 9 February 1715: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Sir William Daines 1,936 24.87 N/A
Whig Joseph Earle 1,879 24.14 N/A
Tory Philip Freke 1,991 25.58 N/A
Tory Thomas Edwards, junior 1,978 25.41 N/A
  • Note (1715): Although the Whig candidates received fewer votes than the Tory ones, the Returning Officer declared them elected and the House of Commons did not hear the petitions against the return; so Daines and Earle continued to sit throughout the Parliament.

[edit] Elections in the 1720s

General Election 28 March 1722: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Joseph Earle 2,141 37.22 +13.08
Whig Sir Abraham Elton, Bt 1,869 32.49 N/A
Tory William Hart, senior 1,743 30.30 N/A
General Election 8 September 1727: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig John Scrope Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig Abraham Elton Unopposed N/A N/A
  • Note (1727): William Hart (Tory) was a candidate, but he did not go to a poll after Mr Elton paid him £1,000 to cover his election expenses.
  • Elton became the 2nd Baronet, upon the death of his father (the MP of the same name elected in 1722) in 1728.

[edit] Elections in the 1730s

General Election 24 May 1734: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Sir Abraham Elton, Bt 2,428 38.15 N/A
Tory Thomas Coster 2,071 32.54 N/A
Whig John Scrope 1,866 29.32 N/A
  • Death of Coster
By-Election 12 December 1739: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Edward Southwell 2,651 54.61 N/A
Non Partisan Henry Combe 2,203 45.39 N/A
Majority 448 9.23 N/A
Whig gain from Tory Swing N/A
  • Note (1759): Southwell was an Opposition Whig

[edit] Elections in the 1740s

General Election 13 May 1741: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Sir Abraham Elton, Bt Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig Edward Southwell Unopposed N/A N/A
  • Death of Elton
By-Election 24 November 1742: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Robert Hoblyn Unopposed N/A N/A
Tory gain from Whig Swing N/A
General Election 1 July 1747: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Edward Southwell Unopposed N/A N/A
Tory Robert Hoblyn Unopposed N/A N/A

[edit] Elections in the 1750s

General Election 1 May 1754: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Robert Craggs-Nugent 2,592 37.04 N/A
Tory Richard Beckford 2,245 32.09 N/A
Tory Sir John Philipps 2,160 30.87 N/A
  • Note (1754): Nugent 2,601; Philips 2,165. (Source: Stooks Smith)
  • Death of Beckford
By-Election 18 March 1756: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Jarrit Smith 2,418 50.75 N/A
Whig John Spencer 2,347 49.25 N/A
Majority 71 1.49 N/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
  • Seat vacated by appointment of Craggs-Nugent as a Vice Treasurer of Ireland
By-Election 26 December 1759: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Rt Hon. Robert Craggs-Nugent Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig hold Swing N/A

[edit] Elections in the 1760s

General Election 27 March 1761: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Rt Hon. Robert Craggs-Nugent Unopposed N/A N/A
Tory Jarrit Smith Unopposed N/A N/A
By-Election 16 December 1766: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Rt Hon. Robert Craggs-Nugent Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig hold Swing N/A
  • Creation of Craggs-Nugent as the 1st Viscount Clare, in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1767
General Election 16 March 1768: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig The Viscount Clare PC Unopposed N/A N/A
Tory Matthew Brickdale Unopposed N/A N/A
  • Seat vacated by appointment of Viscount Clare as a Vice Treasurer of Ireland
By-Election 27 June 1768: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig The Viscount Clare PC Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig hold Swing N/A

[edit] Elections in the 1770s

General Election 3 November 1774: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Henry Cruger 3,565 39.56 N/A
Whig Edmund Burke 2,707 30.04 N/A
Tory Matthew Brickdale 2,456 27.26 N/A
Whig The Viscount Clare PC 283 3.14 N/A
  • Note (1774): 5,384 voted. Lord Clare resigned on the second day when Mr. Burke was first proposed. Mr. Burke was at the time in Malton, for which place he had been returned when the deputation arrived to invite him to Bristol, where he arrived on the sixth day's poll. (Source: Stooks Smith)

[edit] Elections in the 1780s

General Election 20 September 1780: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Matthew Brickdale 2,771 37.62 +10.36
Tory Sir Henry Lippincott, Bt 2,518 34.18 N/A
Whig Henry Cruger 1,271 17.25 -22.31
Whig Samuel Peach 788 10.70 N/A
Whig Edmund Burke 18 0.24 -29.80
  • Note (1780): Lippincott 3,518; Burke 0. Mr. Rich. Combe, late member of Aldeburgh, was a Candidate, but died the day before the commencement of the poll. (Source: Stooks Smith)
  • Death of Lippincott
By-Election 26 February 1781: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory George Daubeny 3,143 53.15 N/A
Whig Henry Cruger 2,771 46.85 N/A
Majority 372 6.29 N/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
General Election 10 May 1784: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Matthew Brickdale 3,458 35.05 -2.57
Whig Henry Cruger 3,052 30.93 +13.68
Tory George Daubeny 2,984 30.24 N/A
Whig Samuel Peach 373 3.73 -6.97
  • Note (1784): 6,094 voted. (Source: Stooks Smith)

[edit] Elections in the 1790s

General Election 1790: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Marquess of Worcester 544 49.54 N/A
Whig The Lord Sheffield 537 48.91 N/A
Non Partisan -. Lewis 12 1.09 N/A
Non Partisan William Cunningham 5 0.46 N/A
General Election 1796: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Charles Bragge 364 44.83 -4.71
Whig The Lord Sheffield 340 41.87 -7.04
Whig Benjamin Hobhouse 108 13.30 N/A
  • Note (1796): Poll 1 day. (Source: Stooks Smith)

[edit] Elections in the 1800s

  • Members of the last Parliament of Great Britain, continued in office for the first Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801
Co-option 1801: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Charles Bragge Co-opted N/A N/A
Whig The Lord Sheffield Co-opted N/A N/A
By-Election November 1801: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Charles Bragge Unopposed N/A N/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
General Election 1802: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Rt Hon. Charles Bragge Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig Evan Baillie Unopposed N/A N/A
  • Note (1802): Sir Frederick Eden was a candidate, but retired before the election. (Source: Stooks Smith)
  • Seat vacated on the appointment of Bragge as Secretary at War
By-Election August 1803: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Rt Hon. Charles Bragge Unopposed N/A N/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
  • Bragge changed his surname to Bathurst in 1804
General Election 1806: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Rt Hon. Charles Bragge Bathurst Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig Evan Baillie Unopposed N/A N/A
General Election 1807: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Rt Hon. Charles Bragge Bathurst Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig Evan Baillie Unopposed N/A N/A

[edit] Elections in the 1810s

By-Election July 1812: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Richard Hart Davis 1,907 89.03 N/A
Radical Henry Hunt 235 10.97 N/A
Radical William Cobbett 0 0.00 N/A
Majority 1,672 78.06 N/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
  • Note (1812 by-election): Poll 13 days; 2,142 electors voted. (Source: Stooks Smith)
General Election 1812: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Richard Hart Davis 2,910 39.24 N/A
Whig Edward Protheroe I 2,435 32.84 N/A
Whig Sir Samuel Romilly 1,615 21.78 N/A
Radical Henry Hunt 455 6.14 N/A
  • Note (1812): Poll 10 days; 4,389 electors cast 7,415 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)
General Election 1818: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Richard Hart Davis 3,377 46.13 +6.89
Whig Edward Protheroe I 2,259 30.86 -1.98
Whig Hugh Duncan Baillie 1,684 23.01 +23.01
  • Note (1818): Poll 5 days; 4,121 electors cast 7,320 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)

[edit] Elections in the 1820s

General Election 1820: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Henry Bright 2,975 50.45 +50.45
Tory Richard Hart Davis 2,795 47.40 +1.27
Whig Hugh Duncan Baillie 127 2.15 -20.86
General Election 1826: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Richard Hart Davis 3,887 48.14 +0.74
Whig Henry Bright 2,314 28.66 -21.79
Whig Edward Protheroe I 1,874 23.21 +23.21

[edit] Elections in the 1830s

General Election 1830: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Richard Hart Davis 5,012 44.59 -3.55
Whig James Evan Baillie 3,378 30.05 +30.05
Whig Edward Protheroe II 2,842 25.28 +25.28
Radical James Acland 8 0.07 +0.07
  • Note (1830): Poll 4 days; 6,311 electors cast 11,240 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)
General Election 1831: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig James Evan Baillie Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig Edward Protheroe II Unopposed N/A N/A
General Election 14 December 1832: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt 3,697 29.28 N/A
Liberal James Evan Baillie 3,159 25.02 N/A
Liberal Edward Protheroe II 3,030 24.00 N/A
Liberal John Williams 2,741 21.71 N/A
Turnout 12,627 64.29 N/A
Registered Electors 10,315
  • Note (1832): Candidates classified as Tory (Vyvyan) and Whig (Baillie, Protheroe and Williams). 6,631 electors voted (used to calculate turnout). (Source: Stooks Smith)
General Election 9 January 1835: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Philip John Miles 3,709 32.68 +32.68
Conservative Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt 3,313 29.19 -0.09
Liberal James Evan Baillie 2,518 22.19 -2.83
Liberal Rt Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bt 1,808 15.93 +15.93
Turnout 11,348 56.99 -7.30
Registered Electors 10,100
  • Note (1835): Candidates classified as Tory (Miles and Vyvyan) and Whig (Baillie and Hobhouse). 10,112 registered electors (difference from Craig +12); 5,879 electors voted (used to calculate turnout, with Craig's electorate figure). (Source: Stooks Smith)
General Election 22 July 1837: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Philip William Skinner Miles 3,839 37.61 +37.61
Liberal Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley 3,212 31.47 +31.47
Conservative William Fripp 3,156 30.92 +30.92
Turnout 10,207 63.80 +6.81
Registered Electors 9,992
  • Note (1837): Candidates classified as Tory (Miles and Fripp) and Whig (Berkeley). 3,837 votes for Miles (difference from Craig -2); 6,375 electors voted (used to calculate turnout). (Source: Stooks Smith)

[edit] Elections in the 1840s

General Election 28 June 1841: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Philip William Skinner Miles 4,193 36.10 -1.51
Liberal Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley 3,739 32.19 +0.72
Conservative William Fripp 3,684 31.71 +0.79
Turnout 11,616 52.09 -11.71
Registered Electors 11,150
  • Note (1841): Candidates classified as Tory (Miles and Fripp) and Whig (Berkeley). 11,112 registered electors (difference from Craig -38); number voted unspecified (division of votes by two used to calculate an estimated minimum turnout). (Source: Stooks Smith)
General Election 1847: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley 4,381 45.53 +13.34
Conservative Philip William Skinner Miles 2,595 26.97 -9.13
Conservative William Fripp 2,476 25.73 -5.98
Liberal Apsley Pellatt 171 1.78 +1.78
Turnout 9,623 62.66 +10.57
Registered Electors 11,032
  • Note (1847): Candidates classified as Tory (Miles and Fripp), Whig (Berkeley) and Radical (Pellatt). 6,913 voted (used to calculate turnout). (Source: Stooks Smith)

[edit] Elections in the 1850s

General Election 10 July 1852: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley 4,681 36.45 -9.08
Liberal William Henry Gore-Langton 4,531 35.28 +35.28
Conservative Foster Alleyne McGeachy 3,632 28.28 +28.28
Turnout 12,844 51.18 -11.48
Registered Electors 12,548
  • Note (1852): From this election the number of electors who voted is unknown, so the number of votes cast is divided by two, and the resultant figure is used to calculate an estimated minimum turnout. To the extent that electors did not cast both their possible votes the turnout figure will be an underestimate.
General Election 27 March 1857: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley Unopposed N/A N/A
Liberal William Henry Gore-Langton Unopposed N/A N/A
Registered Electors 12,612
General Election 30 April 1859: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley 4,432 36.45 N/A
Liberal William Henry Gore-Langton 4,285 35.28 N/A
Conservative F.W. Slade 4,205 28.28 N/A
Turnout 12,922 49.97 N/A
Registered Electors 12,929

[edit] Elections in the 1860s

General Election 15 July 1865: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley 5,296 35.80 -0.65
Liberal Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Bt 5,228 35.34 +35.34
Conservative Thomas Francis Fremantle 4,269 28.86 +0.58
Turnout 14,793 65.44 +15.47
Registered Electors 11,303
  • Resignation of Peto
By-Election 30 April 1868: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John William Miles 5,173 50.97 N/A
Liberal Samuel Morley 4,977 49.03 N/A
Majority 196 1.93 N/A
Turnout 10,150 89.80 N/A
Registered Electors 11,303
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing N/A
  • McCalmont reports that Miles was unseated on petition, but that no new writ was issued before the 1868 general election.
General Election 16 November 1868: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley 8,759 36.24 +0.44
Liberal Samuel Morley 8,714 36.06 +36.06
Conservative John William Miles 6,694 27.70 -1.16
Turnout 24,167 57.12 -8.32
Registered Electors 21,153

[edit] Elections in the 1870s

  • Death of Berkeley
By-Election 29 March 1870: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Elisha Smith Robinson 7,882 52.55 N/A
Conservative S.V. Hare 7,062 47.45 N/A
Majority 760 5.11 N/A
Turnout 14,884 70.36 N/A
Registered Electors 21,153
Liberal hold Swing N/A
  • Election of Robinson declared void on petition
By-Election 27 June 1870: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Kirkham Daniel Hodgson 7,816 51.92 -0.63
Conservative S.V. Hare 7,238 48.08 +0.63
Majority 578 3.84 -1.27
Turnout 15,054 71.17 +0.81
Registered Electors 21,153
Liberal hold Swing +0.63
  • Swing from Liberal to Conservative
General Election 5 February 1874: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Kirkham Daniel Hodgson 8,888 26.30 +26.30
Liberal Samuel Morley 8,732 25.84 -10.22
Conservative S.V. Hare 8,552 25.30 +25.30
Conservative G.H. Chambers 7,626 22.56 +22.56
Turnout 33,798 73.90 +16.78
Registered Electors 22,867
  • Resignation of Hodgson
By-Election 16 December 1878: Bristol
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Lewis Fry 9,342 54.51 N/A
Conservative Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, Bt 7,795 45.49 N/A
Majority 1,547 9.03 N/A
Turnout 17,137 68.96 N/A
Registered Electors 24,851
Liberal hold Swing N/A

[edit] Elections in the 1880s

General Election April 1880: Bristol (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Samuel Morley 10,704 31.24 +5.40
Liberal Lewis Fry 10,070 29.39 +29.39
Conservative Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, Bt 9,395 27.42 +27.42
Liberal Elisha Smith Robinson 4,100 11.96 +11.96
Turnout 34,269 73.76 -0.14
Registered Electors 23,229
  • Constituency abolished - city split into four divisions (1885)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
  • British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)
  • McCalmont's Parliamentary Poll Book: British Election Results 1832-1918 (8th edition, The Harvester Press 1971)
  • The House of Commons 1715-1754, by Romney Sedgwick (HMSO 1970)
  • The House of Commons 1754-1790, by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964)
  • 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) out of copyright
  • Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
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