North Hampshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Hampshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Hampshire
1832–1885
Number of members	Two
Created from	Hampshire

North Hampshire (formally the Northern division of Hampshire) was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Hampshire, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.

It was created under the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, and abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Charles Shaw-Lefevre	Liberal[1]		James Winter Scott	Liberal Party
1837					Sir William Heathcote, Bt	Conservative
1849 by-election					Melville Portal	Conservative
1857		William Wither Bramston Beach	Conservative		George Sclater-Booth	Conservative
1885	constituency abolished

Sources

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 393. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.

Notes and references

1. Craig does not distinguish between Whigs, Radical and Liberals. They are all labelled as Liberals