Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)
Dorset | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Dorset |
1290–1885 | |
Number of members | 1290–1832: Two 1832–1885: Three |
Replaced by | North Dorset, South Dorset, East Dorset, West Dorset |
Dorset was a county constituency covering Dorset in southern England, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs), traditionally known as knights of the shire, to the House of Commons of England from 1290 until 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until 1832.
The Great Reform Act increased its representation to three MPs with effect from the 1832 general election, and under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the constituency was abolished for the 1885 election, and replaced by four single-member divisions: North Dorset, South Dorset, East Dorset and West Dorset.
When elections were contested, the bloc vote system was used, but contests were rare. Even after the 1832 Reforms, only three of the nineteen elections before 1885 were contested; in the others, the nominated candidates were returned without a vote.[1]
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History
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Members of Parliament
Before 1640
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MPs 1640–1832
MPs 1832–1885
Election | First member | First party[1] | Second member | Second party[1] | Third member | Third party[1] | |||
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1832 | Lord Ashley | Conservative | William John Bankes | Conservative | Hon. William Ponsonby | Whig | |||
1835 | Henry Sturt | Conservative | |||||||
1837 | Hon. John Fox-Strangways | Whig | |||||||
1841 | George Bankes | Conservative | |||||||
1846 by-election | Henry Ker Seymer | Conservative | John Floyer | Conservative | |||||
1856 by-election | Henry Sturt | Conservative | |||||||
1857 | Hon. Henry Portman | Liberal | |||||||
1864 by-election | John Floyer | Conservative | |||||||
1876 by-election | Hon. Edward Digby | Conservative | |||||||
1885 | Constituency divided among North, South, East, and West Dorset. |
Election results
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Notes
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References
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [1]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Heywood Townshend, Historical Collections:: or, An exact Account of the Proceedings of the Four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth (1680) [2]
- British History Online - 'List of members nominated for Parliament of 1653', Diary of Thomas Burton esq, volume 4: March - April 1659 (1828),
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- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset (historic)
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