East Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = East Riding of Yorkshire
Type = County
Year = 1832
Abolition = 1885
members = 2

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

Election results

Election box begin
title=General Election 1837: East Riding of Yorkshire (2 seats) [*"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)] Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Richard Bethell
votes = 3,592
percentage =
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Henry Broadley
votes = 3,257
percentage =
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = P. B. Thompson
votes = 2,985
percentage =
change = "N/A"Election box turnout
votes = 6,204
percentage = 87.0
change = "N/A"

References

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