Mid Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Mid Somerset County constituency |
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| Created: | 1868 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two |
Mid Somerset was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Somerset, 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 for the 1868 general election, and abolished for the 1885 general election, when Somerset was divided into several new single-member constituencies: Bridgwater, Frome, East Somerset, North Somerset, South Somerset, Wellington and Wells.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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| 1868 | Richard Horner Paget | Ralph Neville Grenville | ||||
| 1878 by-election | William Stephen Gore-Langton | Conservative | ||||
| 1885 by-election | John Kenelm Digby Wingfield-Digby | |||||
| 1885 | constituency abolished | |||||
[edit] Election results
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