East Essex (UK Parliament constituency)
East Essex | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Essex |
1868–1885 | |
Number of members | Two |
Replaced by | Saffron Walden (east part of), Maldon, Harwich, Colchester, South East Essex |
Created from |
North Essex (6 hundreds of) South Essex (took Dengie hundred away from) |
East Essex was a county constituency in the county of Essex, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.
Notes on status
Its county constituency (CC) status at the time determined its sub-category of eligible male electorate — see parliamentary franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918. Today the CC versus borough constituency distinction is trivial as it increases permitted election expenses marginally and changes the rank of the returning officer at the count of votes.
Creation, boundaries and extinguishment
It was created by the Reform Act 1867 for the 1868 general election as one of three compass-point divisions of Essex, complementing the borough seats; as the south division shed approximately half of its one half of the county to other seats and the north county seat was abolished - divided among newly-created East Essex and West Essex dual-member constituencies.
It was defined as North East Essex at first.[1] The place for "holding of courts for election of members" from 1867 became Braintree under the 1867 Act.[1] Its composition was the ancient hundreds (chief places mentioned):-
- Hinckford (Foxearth and Halstead to Braintree)
- Lexden (extends from Dedham to Colchester to Coggeshall)
- Tendring (Brightlingsea to Clacton to Harwich)
- Witham (Witham)
- Winstree (Witley) (equivalent to a half-hundred)
- Thurstable (Tollesbury to Great Totham) (equivalent to a half-hundred)
- Dengie (Maldon to Burnham and Tillingham)
Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 it was abolished for the 1885 general election, when it was divided into new and revised single-member constituencies.[2]
Members of Parliament
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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1868 | James Round | Conservative | Samuel Ruggles-Brise | Conservative | ||
1883 by-election | Charles Hedley Strutt | Conservative | ||||
1885 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | James Round | 2,861 | 28.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Samuel Ruggles-Brise | 2,816 | 28.1 | N/A | |
Liberal | Thomas Western | 2,224 | 22.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | Thomas Abdy | 2,134 | 21.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 592 | 5.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,018 (est) | 76.4 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 6,564 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | James Round | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Samuel Ruggles-Brise | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 6,453 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | James Round | 2,691 | 35.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Samuel Ruggles-Brise | 2,561 | 33.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Charles Page Wood[4] | 2,369 | 31.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 192 | 2.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,060 (est) | 79.3 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 6,380 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Brise's resignation caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Charles Hedley Strutt | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 385. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- Specific
- 1 2 "Representation of the People Act 1867, Schedule D at scanned page 26 of 36 of the Act" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ↑ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. https://archive.org/stream/publicgeneralac01walegoog#page/n155/mode/2up
- 1 2 3 4 Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book)
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(help) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 383. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3. - ↑ "East Essex Division". East Anglian Daily Times. 15 March 1880. p. 2. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).