Bristol (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Bristol
Type = Borough
Year = 1295
Abolition = 1885
members = two

Bristol was a former two member constituency, used to elect members to the House of Commons in the Parliaments of England (to 1707), Great Britain (1707-1800) and the United Kingdom (from 1801). The constituency existed until Bristol was divided into single member constituencies in 1885.

Boundaries

The historic port city of Bristol, is located in what is now the South West Region of England. It straddles the border between the historic geographical counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset. It was usually accounted as a Gloucestershire borough in the later part of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.

The parliamentary borough of Bristol was represented in Parliament from the thirteenth century, as one of the most important population centres in the Kingdom. Namier and Brooke comment that in 1754 the city was the second largest in the Kingdom and had the third largest electorate for an urban seat.

From the United Kingdom general election, 1885 the city was divided into four single member seats. These were Bristol East, Bristol North, Bristol South and Bristol West.

Members of Parliament

Dates of Parliaments 1660-1715

Elections in the 1710s

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title=General Election 9 February 1715: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Sir William Daines
votes = 1,936
percentage = 24.87
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Joseph Earle
votes = 1,879
percentage = 24.14
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Philip Freke
votes = 1,991
percentage = 25.58
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Thomas Edwards, junior
votes = 1,978
percentage = 25.41
change = "N/A"
* "Note (1715): Although the Whig candidates received fewer votes than the Tory ones, the Returning Officer declared them elected and the House of Commons did not hear the petitions against the return; so Daines and Earle continued to sit throughout the Parliament."

Elections in the 1720s

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title=General Election 28 March 1722: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Joseph Earle
votes = 2,141
percentage = 37.22
change = +13.08Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Sir Abraham Elton, Bt
votes = 1,869
percentage = 32.49
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = William Hart, senior
votes = 1,743
percentage = 30.30
change = "N/A"

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title=General Election 8 September 1727: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = John Scrope
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Abraham Elton
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"
* "Note (1727): William Hart (Tory) was a candidate, but he did not go to a poll after Mr Elton paid him £1,000 to cover his election expenses."
* "Elton became the 2nd Baronet, upon the death of his father (the MP of the same name elected in 1722) in 1728."

Elections in the 1730s

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title=General Election 24 May 1734: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Sir Abraham Elton, Bt
votes = 2,428
percentage = 38.15
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Thomas Coster
votes = 2,071
percentage = 32.54
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = John Scrope
votes = 1,866
percentage = 29.32
change = "N/A"
* "Death of Coster"

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title=By-Election 12 December 1739: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Edward Southwell
votes = 2,651
percentage = 54.61
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Non Partisan
candidate = Henry Combe
votes = 2,203
percentage = 45.39
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 448
percentage = 9.23
change = "N/A"Election box gain with party link
winner = British Whig Party
loser = Tory Party
swing = "N/A"
* "Note (1759): Southwell was an Opposition Whig"

Elections in the 1740s

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title=General Election 13 May 1741: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Sir Abraham Elton, Bt
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Edward Southwell
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"
* Death of Elton"

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title=By-Election 24 November 1742: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Robert Hoblyn
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box gain with party link
winner = Tory Party
loser = British Whig Party
swing = "N/A"

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title=General Election 1 July 1747: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Edward Southwell
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Robert Hoblyn
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"

Elections in the 1750s

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title=General Election 1 May 1754: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Robert Craggs-Nugent
votes = 2,592
percentage = 37.04
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Richard Beckford
votes = 2,245
percentage = 32.09
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Sir John Philipps
votes = 2,160
percentage = 30.87
change = "N/A"
* "Note (1754): Nugent 2,601; Philips 2,165. (Source: Stooks Smith)"
* "Death of Beckford"

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title=By-Election 18 March 1756: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Jarrit Smith
votes = 2,418
percentage = 50.75
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = John Spencer
votes = 2,347
percentage = 49.25
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 71
percentage = 1.49
change = "N/A"Election box hold with party link
winner = Tory Party
swing = "N/A"
* "Seat vacated by appointment of Craggs-Nugent as a Vice Treasurer of Ireland"

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title=By-Election 26 December 1759: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Rt Hon. Robert Craggs-Nugent
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box hold with party link
winner = British Whig Party
swing = "N/A"

Elections in the 1760s

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title=General Election 27 March 1761: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Rt Hon. Robert Craggs-Nugent
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A" Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Jarrit Smith
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"
* "Seat vacated by appointment of Craggs-Nugent as First Commissioner of the Board of Trade and Plantations"

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title=By-Election 16 December 1766: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Rt Hon. Robert Craggs-Nugent
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box hold with party link
winner = British Whig Party
swing = "N/A"
* "Creation of Craggs-Nugent as the 1st Viscount Clare, in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1767"

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title=General Election 16 March 1768: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = The Viscount Clare PC
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A" Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Matthew Brickdale
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"
* "Seat vacated by appointment of Viscount Clare as a Vice Treasurer of Ireland"

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title=By-Election 27 June 1768: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = The Viscount Clare PC
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box hold with party link
winner = British Whig Party
swing = "N/A"

Elections in the 1770s

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title=General Election 3 November 1774: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Henry Cruger
votes = 3,565
percentage = 39.56
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Edmund Burke
votes = 2,707
percentage = 30.04
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Matthew Brickdale
votes = 2,456
percentage = 27.26
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = The Viscount Clare PC
votes = 283
percentage = 3.14
change = "N/A"
* "Note (1774): 5,384 voted. Lord Clare resigned on the second day when Mr. Burke was first proposed. Mr. Burke was at the time in Malton, for which place he had been returned when the deputation arrived to invite him to Bristol, where he arrived on the sixth day's poll. (Source: Stooks Smith)"

Elections in the 1780s

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title=General Election 20 September 1780: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Matthew Brickdale
votes = 2,771
percentage = 37.62
change = +10.36Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Sir Henry Lippincott, Bt
votes = 2,518
percentage = 34.18
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Henry Cruger
votes = 1,271
percentage = 17.25
change = -22.31Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Samuel Peach
votes = 788
percentage = 10.70
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Edmund Burke
votes = 18
percentage = 0.24
change = -29.80
* "Note (1780): Lippincott 3,518; Burke 0. Mr. Rich. Combe, late member of Aldeburgh, was a Candidate, but died the day before the commencement of the poll. (Source: Stooks Smith)"
* "Death of Lippincott"

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title=By-Election 26 February 1781: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = George Daubeny
votes = 3,143
percentage = 53.15
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Henry Cruger
votes = 2,771
percentage = 46.85
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 372
percentage = 6.29
change = "N/A"Election box hold with party link
winner = Tory Party
swing = "N/A"

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title=General Election 10 May 1784: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Matthew Brickdale
votes = 3,458
percentage = 35.05
change = -2.57Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Henry Cruger
votes = 3,052
percentage = 30.93
change = +13.68Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = George Daubeny
votes = 2,984
percentage = 30.24
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Samuel Peach
votes = 373
percentage = 3.73
change = -6.97
* "Note (1784): 6,094 voted. (Source: Stooks Smith)"

Elections in the 1790s

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title=General Election 1790: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Marquess of Worcester
votes = 544
percentage = 49.54
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = The Lord Sheffield
votes = 537
percentage = 48.91
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Non Partisan
candidate = -. Lewis
votes = 12
percentage = 1.09
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Non Partisan
candidate = William Cunningham
votes = 5
percentage = 0.46
change = "N/A"

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title=General Election 1796: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Charles Bragge
votes = 364
percentage = 44.83
change = -4.71Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = The Lord Sheffield
votes = 340
percentage = 41.87
change = -7.04Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Benjamin Hobhouse
votes = 108
percentage = 13.30
change = "N/A"
* "Note (1796): Poll 1 day. (Source: Stooks Smith)"

Elections in the 1800s

* "Members of the last Parliament of Great Britain, continued in office for the first Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801"

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title=Co-option 1801: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Charles Bragge
votes = Co-opted
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = The Lord Sheffield
votes = Co-opted
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"
* "Seat vacated on the appointment of Bragge as Treasurer of the Navy"

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title=By-Election November 1801: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Charles Bragge
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box hold with party link
winner = Tory Party
swing = "N/A"

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title=General Election 1802: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Rt Hon. Charles Bragge
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Evan Baillie
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"
* "Note (1802): Sir Frederick Eden was a candidate, but retired before the election. (Source: Stooks Smith)"
* "Seat vacated on the appointment of Bragge as Secretary at War"

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title=By-Election August 1803: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Rt Hon. Charles Bragge
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box hold with party link
winner = Tory Party
swing = "N/A"
* "Bragge changed his surname to Bathurst in 1804"

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title=General Election 1806: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Rt Hon. Charles Bragge Bathurst
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Evan Baillie
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"

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title=General Election 1807: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Rt Hon. Charles Bragge Bathurst
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Evan Baillie
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"

Elections in the 1810s

* "Seat vacated on the appointment of Bathurst as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on 23 June 1812"

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title=By-Election July 1812: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Richard Hart Davis
votes = 1,907
percentage = 89.03
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Radical Party (UK)
candidate = Henry Hunt
votes = 235
percentage = 10.97
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Radical Party (UK)
candidate = William Cobbett
votes = 0
percentage = 0.00
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 1,672
percentage = 78.06
change = "N/A"Election box hold with party link
winner = Tory Party
swing = "N/A"
* "Note (1812 by-election): Poll 13 days; 2,142 electors voted. (Source: Stooks Smith)"

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title=General Election 1812: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Richard Hart Davis
votes = 2,910
percentage = 39.24
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Edward Protheroe I
votes = 2,435
percentage = 32.84
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Sir Samuel Romilly
votes = 1,615
percentage = 21.78
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Radical Party (UK)
candidate = Henry Hunt
votes = 455
percentage = 6.14
change = "N/A"
* "Note (1812): Poll 10 days; 4,389 electors cast 7,415 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)"

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title=General Election 1818: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Richard Hart Davis
votes = 3,377
percentage = 46.13
change = +6.89Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Edward Protheroe I
votes = 2,259
percentage = 30.86
change = -1.98Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Hugh Duncan Baillie
votes = 1,684
percentage = 23.01
change = +23.01
* "Note (1818): Poll 5 days; 4,121 electors cast 7,320 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)"

Elections in the 1820s

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title=General Election 1820: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Henry Bright
votes = 2,975
percentage = 50.45
change = +50.45Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Richard Hart Davis
votes = 2,795
percentage = 47.40
change = +1.27Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Hugh Duncan Baillie
votes = 127
percentage = 2.15
change = -20.86

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title=General Election 1826: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Richard Hart Davis
votes = 3,887
percentage = 48.14
change = +0.74Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Henry Bright
votes = 2,314
percentage = 28.66
change = -21.79Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Edward Protheroe I
votes = 1,874
percentage = 23.21
change = +23.21

Elections in the 1830s

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title=General Election 1830: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Tory Party
candidate = Richard Hart Davis
votes = 5,012
percentage = 44.59
change = -3.55Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = James Evan Baillie
votes = 3,378
percentage = 30.05
change = +30.05Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Edward Protheroe II
votes = 2,842
percentage = 25.28
change = +25.28Election box candidate with party link
party = Radical Party (UK)
candidate = James Acland
votes = 8
percentage = 0.07
change = +0.07
* "Note (1830): Poll 4 days; 6,311 electors cast 11,240 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)"

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title=General Election 1831: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = James Evan Baillie
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = British Whig Party
candidate = Edward Protheroe II
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"

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title=General Election 14 December 1832: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt
votes = 3,697
percentage = 29.28
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = James Evan Baillie
votes = 3,159
percentage = 25.02
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Edward Protheroe II
votes = 3,030
percentage = 24.00
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = John Williams
votes = 2,741
percentage = 21.71
change = "N/A"Election box turnout
votes = 12,627
percentage = 64.29
change = "N/A"Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 10,315
* "Note (1832): Candidates classified as Tory (Vyvyan) and Whig (Baillie, Protheroe and Williams). 6,631 electors voted (used to calculate turnout). (Source: Stooks Smith)"

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title=General Election 9 January 1835: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Philip John Miles
votes = 3,709
percentage = 32.68
change = +32.68Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt
votes = 3,313
percentage = 29.19
change = -0.09Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = James Evan Baillie
votes = 2,518
percentage = 22.19
change = -2.83Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Rt Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bt
votes = 1,808
percentage = 15.93
change = +15.93Election box turnout
votes = 11,348
percentage = 56.99
change = -7.30Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 10,100
* "Note (1835): Candidates classified as Tory (Miles and Vyvyan) and Whig (Baillie and Hobhouse). 10,112 registered electors (difference from Craig +12); 5,879 electors voted (used to calculate turnout, with Craig's electorate figure). (Source: Stooks Smith)"

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title=General Election 22 July 1837: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Philip William Skinner Miles
votes = 3,839
percentage = 37.61
change = +37.61Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley
votes = 3,212
percentage = 31.47
change = +31.47Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = William Fripp
votes = 3,156
percentage = 30.92
change = +30.92Election box turnout
votes = 10,207
percentage = 63.80
change = +6.81Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 9,992
* "Note (1837): Candidates classified as Tory (Miles and Fripp) and Whig (Berkeley). 3,837 votes for Miles (difference from Craig -2); 6,375 electors voted (used to calculate turnout). (Source: Stooks Smith)"

Elections in the 1840s

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title=General Election 28 June 1841: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Philip William Skinner Miles
votes = 4,193
percentage = 36.10
change = -1.51Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley
votes = 3,739
percentage = 32.19
change = +0.72Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = William Fripp
votes = 3,684
percentage = 31.71
change = +0.79Election box turnout
votes = 11,616
percentage = 52.09
change = -11.71Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 11,150
* "Note (1841): Candidates classified as Tory (Miles and Fripp) and Whig (Berkeley). 11,112 registered electors (difference from Craig -38); number voted unspecified (division of votes by two used to calculate an estimated minimum turnout). (Source: Stooks Smith)"

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title=General Election 1847: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley
votes = 4,381
percentage = 45.53
change = +13.34Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Philip William Skinner Miles
votes = 2,595
percentage = 26.97
change = -9.13Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = William Fripp
votes = 2,476
percentage = 25.73
change = -5.98Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Apsley Pellatt
votes = 171
percentage = 1.78
change = +1.78Election box turnout
votes = 9,623
percentage = 62.66
change = +10.57Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 11,032
* "Note (1847): Candidates classified as Tory (Miles and Fripp), Whig (Berkeley) and Radical (Pellatt). 6,913 voted (used to calculate turnout). (Source: Stooks Smith)"

Elections in the 1850s

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title=General Election 10 July 1852: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley
votes = 4,681
percentage = 36.45
change = -9.08Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = William Henry Gore-Langton
votes = 4,531
percentage = 35.28
change = +35.28Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Foster Alleyne McGeachy
votes = 3,632
percentage = 28.28
change = +28.28Election box turnout
votes = 12,844
percentage = 51.18
change = -11.48Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 12,548
* "Note (1852): From this election the number of electors who voted is unknown, so the number of votes cast is divided by two, and the resultant figure is used to calculate an estimated minimum turnout. To the extent that electors did not cast both their possible votes the turnout figure will be an underestimate."

Election box begin
title=General Election 27 March 1857: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = William Henry Gore-Langton
votes = Unopposed
percentage = "N/A"
change = "N/A"Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 12,612

Election box begin
title=General Election 30 April 1859: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley
votes = 4,432
percentage = 36.45
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = William Henry Gore-Langton
votes = 4,285
percentage = 35.28
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = F.W. Slade
votes = 4,205
percentage = 28.28
change = "N/A"Election box turnout
votes = 12,922
percentage = 49.97
change = "N/A"Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 12,929

Elections in the 1860s

Election box begin
title=General Election 15 July 1865: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley
votes = 5,296
percentage = 35.80
change = -0.65Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Bt
votes = 5,228
percentage = 35.34
change = +35.34Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Thomas Francis Fremantle
votes = 4,269
percentage = 28.86
change = +0.58Election box turnout
votes = 14,793
percentage = 65.44
change = +15.47Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 11,303
* "Resignation of Peto"

Election box begin
title=By-Election 30 April 1868: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = John William Miles
votes = 5,173
percentage = 50.97
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Samuel Morley
votes = 4,977
percentage = 49.03
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 196
percentage = 1.93
change = "N/A"Election box turnout
votes = 10,150
percentage = 89.80
change = "N/A"Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 11,303Election box gain with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
loser = Liberal Party (UK)
swing = "N/A"
* "McCalmont reports that Miles was unseated on petition, but that no new writ was issued before the 1868 general election."

Election box begin
title=General Election 16 November 1868: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley
votes = 8,759
percentage = 36.24
change = +0.44Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Samuel Morley
votes = 8,714
percentage = 36.06
change = +36.06Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = John William Miles
votes = 6,694
percentage = 27.70
change = -1.16Election box turnout
votes = 24,167
percentage = 57.12
change = -8.32Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 21,153

Elections in the 1870s

* "Death of Berkeley"

Election box begin
title=By-Election 29 March 1870: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Elisha Smith Robinson
votes = 7,882
percentage = 52.55
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = S.V. Hare
votes = 7,062
percentage = 47.45
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 760
percentage = 5.11
change = "N/A"Election box turnout
votes = 14,884
percentage = 70.36
change = "N/A"Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 21,153Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Party (UK)
swing = "N/A"
* "Election of Robinson declared void on petition"

Election box begin
title=By-Election 27 June 1870: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Kirkham Daniel Hodgson
votes = 7,816
percentage = 51.92
change = -0.63Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = S.V. Hare
votes = 7,238
percentage = 48.08
change = +0.63Election box majority
votes = 578
percentage = 3.84
change = -1.27Election box turnout
votes = 15,054
percentage = 71.17
change = +0.81Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 21,153Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Party (UK)
swing = +0.63
* "Swing from Liberal to Conservative"

Election box begin
title=General Election 5 February 1874: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Kirkham Daniel Hodgson
votes = 8,888
percentage = 26.30
change = +26.30Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Samuel Morley
votes = 8,732
percentage = 25.84
change = -10.22Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = S.V. Hare
votes = 8,552
percentage = 25.30
change = +25.30Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = G.H. Chambers
votes = 7,626
percentage = 22.56
change = +22.56Election box turnout
votes = 33,798
percentage = 73.90
change = +16.78Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 22,867
* "Resignation of Hodgson"

Election box begin
title=By-Election 16 December 1878: BristolElection box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Lewis Fry
votes = 9,342
percentage = 54.51
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, Bt
votes = 7,795
percentage = 45.49
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 1,547
percentage = 9.03
change = "N/A"Election box turnout
votes = 17,137
percentage = 68.96
change = "N/A"Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 24,851Election box hold with party link
winner = Liberal Party (UK)
swing = "N/A"

Elections in the 1880s

Election box begin
title=General Election April 1880: Bristol (2 seats)Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Samuel Morley
votes = 10,704
percentage = 31.24
change = +5.40Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Lewis Fry
votes = 10,070
percentage = 29.39
change = +29.39Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, Bt
votes = 9,395
percentage = 27.42
change = +27.42Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Elisha Smith Robinson
votes = 4,100
percentage = 11.96
change = +11.96Election box turnout
votes = 34,269
percentage = 73.76
change = -0.14Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 23,229
* "Constituency abolished - city split into four divisions (1885)"

ee also

*List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
*Unreformed House of Commons

References

* "Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972", compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
* "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885", compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)
* "McCalmont's Parliamentary Poll Book: British Election Results 1832-1918" (8th edition, The Harvester Press 1971)
* "The House of Commons 1509-1558", by S.T. Bindoff (Secker & Warburg 1982)
* "The House of Commons 1558-1603", by P.W. Hasler (HMSO 1981)
* "The House of Commons 1715-1754", by Romney Sedgwick (HMSO 1970)
* "The House of Commons 1754-1790", by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964)
* "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) "out of copyright"
* "Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885", edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)

*Rayment