East Sussex (UK Parliament constituency)

East Sussex
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
18321885
Number of members two
Replaced by Rye
Eastbourne
East Grinstead
Lewes
Created from Sussex

East Sussex (formally the Eastern division of Sussex) was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Sussex, which returned two Members of Parliament 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, when the existing Sussex constituency was divided into two. It consisted of the rapes of Lewes, Pevensey and Hastings, an area broadly similar to but not identical with the modern county of East Sussex. The "place of election", where nominations were taken and the result declared, was Lewes.

East Sussex was abolished for the 1885 general election, being divided between four new single-member county constituencies, Rye, Eastbourne, East Grinstead and Lewes. (Lewes and Rye also absorbed the voters from the abolished boroughs of the same names.)

Members of Parliament

Year1st Member1st Party2nd Member2nd Party
1832 Hon. Charles Cavendish Whig Herbert Barrett Curteis Whig
1837 George Darby Conservative
1841 Augustus Fuller Conservative
1846 by-election Charles Frewen Conservative
March 1857 by-election Viscount Pevensey Conservative
April 1857 John George Dodson Whig
1859 Liberal
1865 Lord Edward Cavendish Liberal
1868 George Burrow Gregory Conservative
1874 Montagu Scott Conservative
1885 constituency abolished

References


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