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North Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Riding of Yorkshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Form 1832-1868 and this area was left intact until 1885. Extract from 1837 result: the central, striped area.
CountyNorth Riding of Yorkshire
1832–1885
Number of membersTwo
Replaced byCleveland, Richmond, Thirsk & Malton and Whitby
Created fromYorkshire

North Riding of Yorkshire was the constituency of the North 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. It was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and replaced for the 1885 general election by the new single-member constituencies of Cleveland, Richmond, Thirsk & Malton and Whitby, most its remaining small boroughs seeing disenfranchisement in 1868 or in 1885.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1654–1658 (Protectorate Parliaments)

Election First member Second member Third member Fourth member
1654 Lord Eure Francis Lascelles Thomas Harrison George Smithson
1656 ? Francis Lascelles Luke Robinson ?

MPs 1832–1885

Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1832 constituency created by division of the Yorkshire constituency
1832 Hon. William Duncombe Conservative Edward Cayley Whig[1][2][3]
1841 by-election Hon. Octavius Duncombe Conservative
1859 Hon. William Duncombe Conservative Liberal
1862 by-election William Morritt Conservative
1865 Frederick Milbank Liberal
1867 by-election Hon. Octavius Duncombe Conservative
1874 Viscount Helmsley Conservative
1882 by-election Hon. Guy Dawnay Conservative
1885 constituency abolished: see Cleveland, Richmond, Thirsk & Malton and Whitby

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1832: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Tory William Duncombe 4,885 41.9
Whig Edward Cayley 3,287 28.2
Whig John Charles Ramsden 2,895 24.8
Whig Martin Stapylton 602 5.2
Turnout 8,581 90.0
Registered electors 9,539
Majority 1,598 13.7
Tory win (new seat)
Majority 392 3.4
Whig win (new seat)
General election 1835: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Duncombe 4,656 35.9 −6.0
Whig Edward Cayley 4,490 34.6 +6.4
Conservative James Walker 3,841 29.6 N/A
Turnout 8,396 88.0 −2.0
Registered electors 9,545
Majority 166 1.3 −12.4
Conservative hold Swing −6.2
Majority 649 5.0 +1.6
Whig hold Swing +6.2
General election 1837: North Riding of Yorkshire[4][1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative William Duncombe Unopposed
Whig Edward Cayley Unopposed
Registered electors 11,738
Conservative hold
Whig hold

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Duncombe Unopposed
Whig Edward Cayley Unopposed
Registered electors 11,361
Conservative hold
Whig hold

Duncombe succeeded to the peerage, becoming 2nd Baron Feversham and causing a by-election.

By-election, 21 September 1841: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Octavius Duncombe Unopposed
Conservative hold
General election 1847: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Octavius Duncombe Unopposed
Whig Edward Cayley Unopposed
Registered electors 11,881
Conservative hold
Whig hold

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Octavius Duncombe Unopposed
Whig Edward Cayley Unopposed
Registered electors 11,319
Conservative hold
Whig hold
General election 1857: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Octavius Duncombe 5,259 37.3 N/A
Whig Edward Cayley 4,641 32.9 N/A
Whig John Dundas[5][6] 4,185 29.7 N/A
Majority 618 4.4 N/A
Turnout 9,672 (est) 79.0 (est) N/A
Registered electors 12,238
Conservative hold
Whig hold
General election 1859: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Octavius Duncombe Unopposed
Liberal Edward Cayley Unopposed
Registered electors 13,479
Conservative hold
Liberal hold

Elections in the 1860s

Cayley's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 17 March 1862: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Morritt 5,507 52.2 N/A
Liberal Frederick Milbank 5,041 47.8 N/A
Majority 466 4.4 N/A
Turnout 10,548 78.9 N/A
Registered electors 13,367
Conservative gain from Liberal
General election 1865: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Frederick Milbank 6,585 35.0 N/A
Conservative William Duncombe 6,362 33.8 N/A
Conservative William Morritt 5,889 31.3 N/A
Majority 223 1.2 N/A
Turnout 12,711 (est) 82.3 (est) N/A
Registered electors 15,438
Liberal hold
Conservative hold

Duncombe was elevated to the peerage, becoming 1st Lord Feversham, and causing a by-election.

By-election, 4 March 1867: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Octavius Duncombe Unopposed
Conservative hold
General election 1868: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Octavius Duncombe 7,689 45.7 +11.9
Liberal Frederick Milbank 7,429 44.1 +9.1
Conservative Edward Stillingfleet Cayley (jnr) 1,721 10.2 −21.1
Turnout 15,118 (est) 78.7 (est) −3.6
Registered electors 19,205
Majority 260 1.6 N/A
Conservative hold Swing +3.9
Majority 5,708 33.9 +32.7
Liberal hold Swing +6.9

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Duncombe Unopposed
Liberal Frederick Milbank Unopposed
Registered electors 19,558
Conservative hold
Liberal hold

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Duncombe Unopposed
Liberal Frederick Milbank Unopposed
Registered electors 20,484
Conservative hold
Liberal hold

Duncombe's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 26 Jan 1882: North Riding of Yorkshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Guy Dawnay 8,135 51.2 N/A
Liberal Samuel Rowlandson[7] 7,749 48.8 N/A
Majority 386 2.4 N/A
Turnout 15,884 79.2 N/A
Registered electors 20,047
Conservative hold

References

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  2. ^ Dod, Charles Roger; Dod, Robert Phipps (1847). Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Volume 15. Dod's Parliamentary Companion. pp. 143–144. Retrieved 19 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Election Movements". Morning Post. 12 June 1841. pp. 5–6. Retrieved 19 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 489–490. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
  5. ^ "North-Riding Election". Yorkshire Gazette. 14 March 1857. p. 7. Retrieved 19 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "The North Riding Representation". Yorkshire Gazette. 14 March 1857. p. 8. Retrieved 19 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "The Representation of the North Riding of Yorkshire". Western Daily Press. 9 January 1882. p. 8. Retrieved 23 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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