East Worcestershire (UK Parliament constituency)

East Worcestershire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1832–1918
Seats	1832–1885: two; 1885–1918: one

East Worcestershire was a county constituency in the county of Worcestershire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, and elected two Members of Parliament (MPs), by the bloc vote system. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, its representation was reduced to one MP for the 1885 general election, elected by the first past the post voting system. The constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1832–1885

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	William Congreve Russell	Liberal	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Thomas Cookes	Liberal
1835	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Edward Holland	Liberal
1837	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Horace St Paul, Bt	Conservative	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John Barneby	Conservative Party
1841	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	James Arthur Taylor	Conservative Party
Jan. 1847 by-election	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |			George Rushout-Bowes	Conservative
Jul. 1847	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John Hodgetts-Foley	Liberal
1859	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Hon. Frederick Gough-Calthorpe	Liberal
1861 by-election	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Harry Vernon	Liberal
Jun. 1868 by-election	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Hon. Charles Lyttelton	Liberal
Nov 1868	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Richard Amphlett	Conservative
1874	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Henry Allsopp	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Thomas Eades Walker	Conservative
1880	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	William Henry Gladstone	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	George Hastings	Liberal
1885	representation reduced to one member

MPs 1885–1918

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1885	George Hastings	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist/meta/color" |	1886		Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |	1892 by-election	Austen Chamberlain	Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1912		Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1914 by-election	Frederick Leverton Harris	Conservative
1918		constituency abolished

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 484–485. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.