East Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency)

East Suffolk
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Suffolk
1832–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Eye, Lowestoft, Stowmarket, Sudbury and Woodbridge
Created from	Aldeburgh, Dunwich, Orford and Suffolk

East Suffolk was a county constituency in Suffolk, England. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

History

The constituency was created under the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, and abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. It was replaced by five new single-member constituencies: Eye, Lowestoft, Stowmarket, Sudbury and Woodbridge.

Election	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1832		The Lord Henniker	Tory	Robert Newton Shawe	Liberal Party
1835			Conservative	Robert Newton Shawe	Liberal Party
1835				Charles Broke Vere	Conservative
1843 by-election				The Lord Rendlesham	Conservative
1846 by-election		Sir Edward Gooch, Bt	Conservative	The Lord Rendlesham	Conservative
1852 by-election		Sir Edward Gooch, Bt	Conservative	Fitzroy Kelly	Conservative
1856 by-election		The Lord Henniker	Conservative	Fitzroy Kelly	Conservative
1866 by-election		Hon. John Henniker-Major	Conservative	Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt	Conservative
1867 by-election		Hon. John Henniker-Major	Conservative	Frederick Snowdon Corrance	Conservative
1870 by-election		Viscount Mahon	Conservative	Frederick Snowdon Corrance	Conservative
1874		Viscount Mahon	Conservative	The Lord Rendlesham	Conservative
1876 by-election		Frederick Barne	Conservative	The Lord Rendlesham	Conservative
1885	constituency abolished: see Eye, Lowestoft, Stowmarket, Sudbury and Woodbridge

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)
Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 461–462. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.

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