East Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire
Former county constituency; for the House of Commons
	From 1832–1868. Extract from 1837 result: the seaside and riverside 'doubly' blue area.
County	East Riding of Yorkshire
1832–1885
Seats	Two
Created from	Yorkshire
Replaced by	Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire

The East Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency covering the East Riding of Yorkshire, omitting Beverley residents save a small minority of Beverley residents who also qualified on property grounds to vote in the county seat (mainly business-owning forty shilling freeholders). It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. A brief earlier guise of the seat covered the changed franchise of the First Protectorate Parliament and Second Protectorate Parliament during a fraction of the twenty years of England and Wales (Scotland and Ireland) existed as a republic.

First and Second Protectorate parliaments existence 1654-1658

The seat existed for the June 1654 to January 1655 parliament and for that following (July 1656 to September 1656). The East Riding electorate summoned four members simultaneously.

Parliaments of the Protectorate
No.	Summoned	Elected	Assembled	Dissolved	Sessions	Speaker	Note
1st	1 June 1654	1654	3 September 1654	22 January 1655	1	William Lenthall	1st Protectorate Parliament
2nd	10 July 1656	1656	17 September 1656	4 February 1658	2	Thomas Widdrington	2nd Protectorate Parliament
2nd	10 July 1656	1656	17 September 1656	4 February 1658	2	Bulstrode Whitelocke	2nd Protectorate Parliament
3rd	9 December 1658	1658–59	27 January 1659	22 April 1659	1	Chaloner Chute	3rd Protectorate Parliament
						Lislebone Long (Deputy)
						Thomas Bampfylde

Creation and abolition

The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 as the four-seat Yorkshire was divided in three, two-seat divisions for the 1832 general election. The divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. It was replaced for the 1885 general election by single-member seats: Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire.

Summary of results

Candidates were elected unopposed at most of the elections throughout its existence; contested elections took place in 1837, 1868 and 1880. In these contests two Conservative candidates defeated a single Whig or Liberal.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1654–1658 (Protectorate Parliaments)

Election	First member	Second member	Third member	Fourth member
1654	Sir William Strickland	Hugh Bethell	Richard Robinson	Walter Strickland
1656	Robert Lilburne	George Eure, 7th Baron Eure	Richard Darley	Hugh Darley

MPs 1832–1885

Election	1st member		1st party		2nd party
1832	constituency created by division of the Yorkshire constituency
1832		Richard Bethell	Tory^[1]	Paul Thompson	Whig^[1]^[2]
1834			Conservative^[1]	Paul Thompson	Whig^[1]^[2]
1837			Conservative^[1]	Henry Broadley	Conservative^[1]
1841		The Lord Hotham	Conservative^[1]	Henry Broadley	Conservative^[1]
1851 by-election		The Lord Hotham	Conservative^[1]	Hon. Arthur Duncombe	Conservative
1868		Christopher Sykes	Conservative	William Harrison-Broadley	Conservative
1885	constituency abolished: see Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1832: East Riding of Yorkshire (2 seats)^[3]^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Tory	Richard Bethell	Unopposed
	Whig	Paul Thompson	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,559
	Tory win (new seat)
	Whig win (new seat)

General election 1835: East Riding of Yorkshire (2 seats)^[3]^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Richard Bethell	Unopposed
	Whig	Paul Thompson	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,140
	Conservative hold
	Whig hold

General election 1837: East Riding of Yorkshire (2 seats)^[4]^[3]^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Richard Bethell	3,592	36.5
	Conservative	Henry Broadley	3,257	33.1
	Whig	Paul Thompson	2,985	30.4
Majority			272	2.7
Turnout			6,204	86.4
Registered electors			7,180
	Conservative hold
	Conservative gain from Whig

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: East Riding of Yorkshire^[3]^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Beaumont Hotham	Unopposed
	Conservative	Henry Broadley	Unopposed
Registered electors			7,640
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

General election 1847: East Riding of Yorkshire^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Beaumont Hotham	Unopposed
	Conservative	Henry Broadley	Unopposed
Registered electors			7,740
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1850s

Broadley's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 7 October 1851: East Riding of Yorkshire^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Duncombe	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Duncombe was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 9 March 1852: East Riding of Yorkshire^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Duncombe	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election 1852: East Riding of Yorkshire^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Beaumont Hotham	Unopposed
	Conservative	Arthur Duncombe	Unopposed
Registered electors			7,538
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

General election 1857: East Riding of Yorkshire^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Beaumont Hotham	Unopposed
	Conservative	Arthur Duncombe	Unopposed
Registered electors			7,382
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

General election 1859: East Riding of Yorkshire^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Beaumont Hotham	Unopposed
	Conservative	Arthur Duncombe	Unopposed
Registered electors			7,221
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: East Riding of Yorkshire^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Beaumont Hotham	Unopposed
	Conservative	Arthur Duncombe	Unopposed
Registered electors			7,400
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

General election 1868: East Riding of Yorkshire^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Sykes	6,299	43.5	*N/A*
	Conservative	William Harrison-Broadley	5,587	38.6	*N/A*
	Liberal	Benjamin Blaydes Haworth^[5]	2,603	18.0	New
Majority			2,984	20.6	N/A
Turnout			8,546 (est.)	78.9 (est.)	N/A
Registered electors			10,827
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: East Riding of Yorkshire^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Christopher Sykes	Unopposed
	Conservative	William Harrison-Broadley	Unopposed
Registered electors			10,722
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: East Riding of Yorkshire^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Sykes	4,927	37.4	*N/A*
	Conservative	William Harrison-Broadley	4,527	34.4	*N/A*
	Liberal	Henry John Lindley Wood^[6]	3,707	28.2	New
Majority			820	6.2	N/A
Turnout			8,434 (est.)	81.0 (est.)	N/A
Registered electors			10,414
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. p. 138. Retrieved 11 August 2019 – via Google Books.
^ Churton, Edward (1836). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer. p. 169. Retrieved 11 August 2019 – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 488. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
^ *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)
^ "To the Electors of the Eastern Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 21 November 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 24 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "County Constituencies". Yorkshire Gazette. 3 April 1880. p. 4. Retrieved 23 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "Y"

[stookssmith-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. p. 138. Retrieved 11 August 2019 – via Google Books.

[2] Churton, Edward (1836). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer. p. 169. Retrieved 11 August 2019 – via Google Books.

[craig1832-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 488. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.

[4] *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)

[5] "To the Electors of the Eastern Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 21 November 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 24 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[6] "County Constituencies". Yorkshire Gazette. 3 April 1880. p. 4. Retrieved 23 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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