East Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)
| East Riding of Yorkshire | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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)
| Election | First member | Second member | Third member | Fourth member |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | constituency created by division of the Yorkshire constituency | |||||
| 1832 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Richard Bethell | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | | Paul Thompson | Whig |
| 1837 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Henry Broadley | Conservative | |||
| 1841 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | The Lord Hotham | Conservative | |||
| 1851 by-election | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Hon. Arthur Duncombe | Conservative | |||
| 1868 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Christopher Sykes | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Harrison-Broadley | Conservative |
| 1885 | constituency abolished: see Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire | |||||
Election results
| 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
- ^ *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)