South Hampshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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

South Hampshire (formally the Southern 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		The Viscount Palmerston	Liberal[1]		Sir George Staunton, Bt	Liberal
1835		John Willis Fleming	Conservative		Henry Combe Compton	Conservative
1842 by-election		Lord Charles Wellesley	Conservative
1852		Lord William Cholmondeley	Conservative
1857		Sir Jervoise Clarke-Jervois, Bt	Liberal		Hon. Ralph Dutton	Conservative
1865					Henry Hamlyn-Fane	Conservative
1868		Hon. William Temple	Liberal		Lord Henry Montagu-Douglas-Scott	Conservative
1880		Francis Compton	Conservative
1884 by-election					Sir Frederick Fitzwygram, Bt	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