East Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

For 1997-present constituency, see East Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency).
East Riding of Yorkshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County East Riding of Yorkshire
1832–1885
Number of members Two
Replaced by Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire
Created from Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832, when the four-seat Yorkshire constituency was divided in three for the 1832 general election, and abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. It was replaced for the 1885 general election by the new single-member constituencies of Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire.

Candidates were elected unopposed at most of the elections throughout its existence as a constituency; the only contested elections were in 1837, 1868 and 1880, on each of which occasions two Conservative candidates defeated a single Whig or Liberal.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1654–1658 (Protectorate Parliaments)

ElectionFirst memberSecond memberThird memberFourth member
1654 Sir William StricklandHugh BethellRichard RobinsonWalter Strickland
1656 Robert LilburneGeorge Eure, 7th Baron EureRichard DarleyHugh Darley

MPs 1832–1885

Election1st Member1st Party2nd Member2nd Party
1832 constituency created by division of the Yorkshire constituency
1832 Richard Bethell Conservative Paul Thompson Whig
1837 Henry Broadley Conservative
1841 The Lord Hotham Conservative
1851 by-election Hon. Arthur Duncombe Conservative
1868 Christopher Sykes Conservative William Harrison-Broadley Conservative
1885 constituency abolished: see Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire

Election results

General Election 1837: East Riding of Yorkshire (2 seats)[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Richard Bethell 3,592 N/A
Tory Henry Broadley 3,257 N/A
Whig P. B. Thompson 2,985 N/A
Turnout 6,204 87.0 N/A

References

  1. ↑
    • 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)
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