North Nottinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Nottinghamshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Nottinghamshire
1832–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Bassetlaw, Mansfield
Created from	Nottinghamshire

North Nottinghamshire, formally the "Northern Division of Nottinghamshire" 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 block vote system of election.

History

The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, when the two-seat Nottinghamshire 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: Bassetlaw, Mansfield, Newark and Rushcliffe.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Viscount Lumley	Liberal		Thomas Houldsworth	Tory
1834						Conservative
1835		Henry Gally Knight	Conservative
1846 by-election		Lord Henry Bentinck	Conservative
1852					Lord Robert Pelham-Clinton	Liberal
1857		Sir Evelyn Denison	Liberal
1865					Lord Edward Pelham-Clinton	Liberal
1868					Frederick Chatfield Smith	Conservative
1872 by-election		Hon. George Monckton-Arundell[1]	Conservative
1880					Cecil Foljambe	Liberal
1885	Redistribution of Seats Act: constituency abolished

Election results

General Election 1880: North Nottinghamshire (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cecil Foljambe	2,814	25.72
	Conservative	Hon. George Monckton-Arundell	2,745	25.09
	Liberal	?	2,735	25.00
	Conservative	?	2,646	24.19
Turnout			5,470	81.65
Registered electors			6,699

Notes

1. Succeeded as Viscount Galway in 1876, an Irish peerage meaning he did not have to resign his seat in the House of Commons.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 438. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.