- North Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency)
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North Leicestershire Former County constituency for the House of Commons County Leicestershire 1832–1885 Number of members Two Replaced by Loughborough and Melton Created from Leicestershire North Leicestershire, formally the "Northern Division of Leicestershire", was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election.
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Boundaries
History
The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, when the two-seat Leicestershire constituency was replaced by the Northern and Southern divisions, each of which elected two MPs.
Both divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when they were replaced by four new single-seat constituencies: Bosworth, Harborough, Loughborough and Melton.
Members of Parliament
Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party 1832 Lord Robert Manners Conservative Charles March Phillipps Whig 1835 by-election Lord Charles Manners Conservative 1837 Edward Basil Farnham Conservative 1852 The Marquess of Granby Conservative 1857 by-election Lord John Manners Conservative 1859 Edward Bourchier Hartopp Conservative 1868 Samuel William Clowes Conservative 1880 Edwyn Sherard Burnaby Conservative 1883 by-election Hon. Montagu Curzon Conservative 1885 Redistribution of Seats Act: constituency abolished Election results
References
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)
Categories:- Parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1832
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1885
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