The East Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency covering the East Riding of Yorkshire, omitting Beverley residents save a small minority of Beverley residents who also qualified on property grounds to vote in the county seat (mainly business-owning forty shilling freeholders). It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. A brief earlier guise of the seat covered the changed franchise of the First Protectorate Parliament and Second Protectorate Parliament during a fraction of the twenty years of England and Wales (Scotland and Ireland) existed as a republic.
East Riding of Yorkshire | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | East Riding of Yorkshire |
1832–1885 | |
Seats | Two |
Created from | Yorkshire |
Replaced by | Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire |
First and Second Protectorate parliaments existence 1654-1658 edit
The seat existed for the June 1654 to January 1655 parliament and for that following (July 1656 to September 1656). The East Riding electorate summoned four members simultaneously.
No. | Summoned | Elected | Assembled | Dissolved | Sessions | Speaker | Note |
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1st | 1 June 1654 | 1654 | 3 September 1654 | 22 January 1655 | 1 | William Lenthall | 1st Protectorate Parliament |
2nd | 10 July 1656 | 1656 | 17 September 1656 | 4 February 1658 | 2 | Thomas Widdrington | 2nd Protectorate Parliament |
Bulstrode Whitelocke | |||||||
3rd | 9 December 1658 | 1658–59 | 27 January 1659 | 22 April 1659 | 1 | Chaloner Chute | 3rd Protectorate Parliament |
Lislebone Long (Deputy) | |||||||
Thomas Bampfylde |
Creation and abolition edit
The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 as the four-seat Yorkshire was divided in three, two-seat divisions for the 1832 general election. The divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. It was replaced for the 1885 general election by single-member seats: Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire.
Summary of results edit
Candidates were elected unopposed at most of the elections throughout its existence; contested elections took place in 1837, 1868 and 1880. In these contests two Conservative candidates defeated a single Whig or Liberal.
Members of Parliament edit
MPs 1654–1658 (Protectorate Parliaments) edit
Election | First member | Second member | Third member | Fourth member |
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1654 | Sir William Strickland | Hugh Bethell | Richard Robinson | Walter Strickland |
1656 | Robert Lilburne | George Eure, 7th Baron Eure | Richard Darley | Hugh Darley |
MPs 1832–1885 edit
Election | 1st member | 1st party | 2nd member | 2nd party | ||
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1832 | constituency created by division of the Yorkshire constituency | |||||
1832 | Richard Bethell | Tory[1] | Paul Thompson | Whig[1][2] | ||
1834 | Conservative[1] | |||||
1837 | Henry Broadley | Conservative[1] | ||||
1841 | The Lord Hotham | Conservative[1] | ||||
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 edit
Elections in the 1830s edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Tory | Richard Bethell | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Paul Thompson | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 5,559 | ||||
Tory win (new seat) | |||||
Whig win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Conservative | Richard Bethell | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Paul Thompson | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 5,140 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Conservative | Richard Bethell | 3,592 | 36.5 | ||
Conservative | Henry Broadley | 3,257 | 33.1 | ||
Whig | Paul Thompson | 2,985 | 30.4 | ||
Majority | 272 | 2.7 | |||
Turnout | 6,204 | 86.4 | |||
Registered electors | 7,180 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Whig |
Elections in the 1840s edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Henry Broadley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,640 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Henry Broadley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,740 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1850s edit
Broadley's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Duncombe was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,538 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,382 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,221 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1860s edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Beaumont Hotham | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Arthur Duncombe | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,400 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Christopher Sykes | 6,299 | 43.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Harrison-Broadley | 5,587 | 38.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Benjamin Blaydes Haworth[5] | 2,603 | 18.0 | New | |
Majority | 2,984 | 20.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,546 (est.) | 78.9 (est.) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 10,827 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1870s edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Christopher Sykes | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | William Harrison-Broadley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 10,722 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1880s edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Christopher Sykes | 4,927 | 37.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Harrison-Broadley | 4,527 | 34.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Henry John Lindley Wood[6] | 3,707 | 28.2 | New | |
Majority | 820 | 6.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,434 (est.) | 81.0 (est.) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 10,414 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. p. 138. Retrieved 11 August 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ Churton, Edward (1836). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer. p. 169. Retrieved 11 August 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 488. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
- ^ *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)
- ^ "To the Electors of the Eastern Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 21 November 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 24 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "County Constituencies". Yorkshire Gazette. 3 April 1880. p. 4. Retrieved 23 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.