North Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Riding of Yorkshire
North Riding of Yorkshire
Former county constituency; for the House of Commons
	; North Riding of Yorkshire, within Yorkshire, 1832–1868; ; Location of Yorkshire within England
County	North Riding of Yorkshire
1832–1885
Seats	Two
Created from	Yorkshire
Replaced by	Cleveland, Richmond, Thirsk & Malton and Whitby

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 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		Whig^[1]^[2]^[3]
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 3rd 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
	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

^ ^a ^b 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. pp. 138–139. Retrieved 19 August 2018 – via Google Books.
^ 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.
^ "Election Movements". Morning Post. 12 June 1841. pp. 5–6. Retrieved 19 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ ^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.
^ "North-Riding Election". Yorkshire Gazette. 14 March 1857. p. 7. Retrieved 19 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "The North Riding Representation". Yorkshire Gazette. 14 March 1857. p. 8. Retrieved 19 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "The Representation of the North Riding of Yorkshire". Western Daily Press. 9 January 1882. p. 8. Retrieved 23 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "Y"
Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.

[stookssmith-1] 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. pp. 138–139. Retrieved 19 August 2018 – via Google Books.

[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.

[craig1832-4] ^ ^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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