South Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Warwickshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Warwickshire
1832–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Tamworth
Created from	Warwickshire

South Warwickshire was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Warwickshire in England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created under the Reform Act 1832, when the former Warwickshire constituency was divided into two new divisions: North Warwickshire and South Warwickshire.

South Warwickshire was itself abolished in 1885, when the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 replaced it with four new single-member constituencies: Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Tamworth.

1832-1885: The Hundreds of Barlichway and Kington, and the Kenilworth and Southam Divisions of the Hundred of Knightlow.^[1]

Election		1st Party		2nd Party
1832	Sir Grey Skipwith, Bt	Liberal	Sir George Philips, Bt	Liberal
1835	Sir John Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative	Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon	Liberal
1836 by-election	Sir John Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative	Evelyn Shirley	Conservative
1845 by-election	Lord Brooke	Conservative	Evelyn Shirley	Conservative
1849 by-election	Lord Brooke	Conservative	Lord Guernsey	Conservative
1853 by-election	Evelyn Shirley	Conservative	Lord Guernsey	Conservative
1857			Edward Bolton King	Liberal
1859			Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative
1865	Henry Christopher Wise	Conservative	Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative
1868	Henry Christopher Wise	Conservative	John Hardy	Conservative
1874	Earl of Yarmouth	Conservative	Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Bt	Conservative
1880	Hon. Gilbert Leigh	Liberal
1884 by-election	Sampson Samuel Lloyd	Conservative

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