East Sussex (UK Parliament constituency)

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East Sussex County constituency
Created:	1832
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two

East Sussex (formally the Eastern division of Sussex) was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Sussex, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.

It was created under the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, when the existing Sussex constituency was divided into two. It consisted of the rapes of Lewes, Hastings and Rye, an area broadly similar to but not identical with the modern county of East Sussex. The "place of election", where nominations were taken and the result declared, was Lewes.

East Sussex was abolished for the 1885 general election, being divided between four new single-member county constituencies, Rye, Eastbourne, East Grinstead and Lewes. (Lewes and Rye also absorbed the voters from the abolished boroughs of the same names.)

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Hon. Charles Compton Cavendish	Whig		Herbert Barrett Curteis	Whig
1837					George Darby	Conservative
1841		Augustus Eliott Fuller	Conservative
1846 by-election					Charles Hay Frewen	Conservative
March 1857 by-election					Viscount Pevensey	Conservative
April 1857		John Dodson	Whig
1859			Liberal
1865					Lord Edward Cavendish	Liberal
1868					George Burrow Gregory	Conservative
1874		Montagu David Scott	Conservative
1885	constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

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[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
• F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)