North Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Leicestershire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Leicestershire
1832–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Loughborough and Melton
Created from	Leicestershire

North Leicestershire, formally the "Northern Division of Leicestershire", was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election.

History

The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, when the two-seat Leicestershire constituency was replaced by the Northern and Southern divisions, each of which elected two MPs.

Both divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when they were replaced by four new single-seat constituencies: Bosworth, Harborough, Loughborough and Melton.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Lord Robert Manners	Conservative		Charles March Phillipps	Whig
1835 by-election		Lord Charles Manners	Conservative
1837					Edward Basil Farnham	Conservative
1852		The Marquess of Granby	Conservative
1857 by-election		Lord John Manners	Conservative
1859					Edward Bourchier Hartopp	Conservative
1868					Samuel William Clowes	Conservative
1880					Edwyn Sherard Burnaby	Conservative
1883 by-election					Hon. Montagu Curzon	Conservative
1885		Redistribution of Seats Act: constituency abolished

References

• F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)