Bristol (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bristol
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1295–1885
Number of memberstwo
Replaced by Bristol East
Bristol North
Bristol South
Bristol West

Bristol was a two-member constituency, used to elect members to the House of Commons in the Parliaments of England (to 1707), Great Britain (1707–1800) and the United Kingdom (from 1801). The constituency existed until Bristol was divided into single member constituencies in 1885.

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Boundaries

The historic port city of Bristol, is located in what is now the South West Region of England. It straddles the border between the historic geographical counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset. It was usually accounted as a Gloucestershire borough in the later part of the 19th and the 20th centuries.

The parliamentary borough of Bristol was represented in Parliament from the 13th century, as one of the most important population centres in the Kingdom. Namier and Brooke comment that in 1754 the city was the second largest in the Kingdom and had the third largest electorate for an urban seat.

From the 1885 United Kingdom general election the city was divided into four single member seats. These were Bristol East, Bristol North, Bristol South and Bristol West.

Members of Parliament

The use of Roman numerals in the list below denotes different politicians of the same name, not that the individuals concerned would have used the Roman numerals as part of their name.

Non Partisan denotes that the politician concerned is not known to have been associated with a party (not necessarily that he was not). Whilst Whig and Tory societies in the city continued to nominate candidates in the last half of the 18th century, the electoral labels used in Bristol had very little to do with what the MPs did in national politics.

Year1st Member1st Party2nd Member2nd Party
1295 John le Taverner [1]
1298 John le Taverner John de Cheddre [1]
1301 John de Malmesbury [1]
1305 Thomas Welishote John Hasard [1]
1306 John le Taverner Robert de Holhurst [1]
1307 (Jan) Geoffrey Comper Nicholas Coker [1]
1309 Stephen de Bello Monte Robert Martyn [1]
1311 (Aug) Richard Colpeck John Fraunceys [1]
1311 (Nov) John Haszard John le Lun [1]
1313 (Mar) John de Wellescoten John Methelan [1]
1313 (Sep) John Fraunceys John Tropyn [1]
1315 Robert Wyldemersh Thomas le Spicer [1]
1316 (Jan) Nicholas de Roubergwe John Veys [1]
1318 Gilbert Pickering Richard de Woodhall [1]
1319 Thomas de Salop Robert de Lyncoln [1]
1320 John le Hunte John Welishote [1]
1321 John de Romeneye William de Hanyngfeld [1]
1322 (May) William de Clyf John Fraunceys jnr (son of 1311) [1]
1322 (Nov) John le Taverner John Fraunceys jnr [1]
1324 (Jan) John de Axebridge John Fraunceys jnr [1]
1325 John de Axebridge John Fraunceys jnr [1]
1327 John de Axebridge John de Romeneye [1]
1328 (Feb) Richard de Panes Hugh le Hunte [1]
1328 (Apr) William de Trowbridge Hugh de Langebridge [1]
1330 (Mar) John Fraunceys Hugh le Hunte [1]
1330 (Nov) Hugh le Hunte Richard de Panes [1]
1332 (Mar) John de Romeneye John de Axebridge [1]
1332 (Sep) Hugh de Langebridge John de Axebridge [1]
1332 (Dec) Richard de Chelreye John Fraunceys snr [1]
1334 (Feb) John Otery John de Strete [1]
1334 (Sep) Robert Gyene or Gwyen [1]
1335 Hugh de Langebridge John de Strete [1]
1336 (Mar) Robert de Gyn or de Gyeyn John Franceys [1]
1336 (Sep) John Fraunceys jnr Thomas Tropin [1]
1336 (Dec) Hugh de Langebridge John le Spycer
William le Haukare [1]
1337 (Jan) Robert de Gyene John de Strete [1]
1338 (Jan) Everard le Fraunceys Philip de Torynton [1]
1338 (Jul) Everard le Fraunceys Philip de Torynton [1]
1339 (Jan) Everard le Fraunceys John de Strete [1]
1340 (Jan) Thomas Tropyn John le Spicer [1]
1341 Robert Guyene Philip de Toryton [1]
1344 Roger Turtle John de Horncastle [1]
1346 (Sep) John de Wycoumbe John Neel [1]
1348 (Jan) Everard Fraunceys or le Freynshe John de Strete [1]
1348 (Mar) Everard le Fraunceys Thomas de Lodelawe [1]
1351John de Colyngton or Cobbington John Seymour [1]
1353 Thomas Babbecary William Coumbe [1]
1354 Richard le Spicer Reginald le French [1]
1358 Reginald French Richard Brompton [1]
1360 Thomas Babbecari Galfridus Beauflour (Geoffrey Beauflower) [1]
1361 Reginald le French William Yonge [1]
1362 Walter Frompton Edmund Blanket [1]
1363 John Serjaunt John Stoke [1]
1365 William Haye William Cannings [1]
1366 William Somerwell Thomas Denbaud [1]
1368 Richard Chaimburleyn Richard Sydenham [1]
1369 Robert Cheddre Edmund Blanket [1]
1371 (Jun) John Bathe [1]
1372 Walter Derby John Stoke [1]
1373 Walter Derby Thomas Beaupyne or Beaupenny [1]
1377 (Jan) Ehas Spelly Thomas Beaupyne or Beaupenny [1]
1378 Thomas Beaupyne Walter de Frompton [1]
1381 Elias Spelly John Stokes [1]
1382 (May) Thomas Beaupyne John Viell [1]
1382 (Oct) Walter Derby John Fullbroke [1]
1383 (Feb) William I Canynges(d.1396) John Candavere [1]
1383 (Oct) John Canynges(d.1405) William Frome [1]
1384 (Apr) William I Canynges(d.1396) William Somerwell [1]
1384 (Nov) Elias Spelly Walter Tedistill (Tyddeley?) [1]
1385 Elias Spelly Thomas Knapp [1]
1386 Elias Spelly William I Canynges (d.1396) [1]
1388 (Feb) Thomas Beaupyne Thomas Knapp [1]
1388 (Sep) Robert Gardiner John Fulbrook [1]
1390 (Jan) John Viell William Frome [1]
1391 William Frome John Stephens [1]
1393 Thomas Beaupyne John Stephens [1]
1397 (Jan) William Frome John Banbury [1]
1399 Thomas Norton Richard Pavys or Pannys [1]
1402 Thomas Norton John Droyes [1]
1406 Henry Bokerell Gilbert Joce [1]
1407 (Oct) John Droys, merchant John Newton, merchant [1]
1411 (Oct) Thomas Norton David Dudbroke [1]
1413 (Apr) Thomas Norton John Leycester [1]
1414 (Jan) Thomas Young John Spyne [1]
1414 (Oct) Thomas Blount, merchant John Clyve, merchant [1]
1416 (Feb) Robert Russell Robert Colville [1]
1417 (Oct) Thomas Norton John Burton [1]
1419 (Sep) Robert Russell Mark William [1]
1420 (Nov) Thomas Norton John Spyne [1]
1421 (Mar) Thomas Norton Henry Gildeney [1]
1421 (Nov) Mark William Richard Trenode [1]
1422 (Oct) John Burton Roger Lyveden or Lavindon [1]
1423 (Oct) John Burton Roger Leveden or Lavindon [1]
1425 (Mar) Richard Trenode Walter Power or Powell [1]
1426 (Feb) Henry Gildeney John Langley [1]
1427 (Sep) John Burton Henry Gildeney [1]
1429 (Sep) Richard Trenode John Sharp [1]
1430 (Dec) Thomas Fish Walter Power or Powell [1]
1432 (Apr) John Burton John Sharp [1]
1433 (Jun) Robert Russell Walter Power [1]
1435 (Sep) Thomas Fisshe Thomas Young(d.1476) [1]

[2]

1436 (Dec) Thomas Young(d.1476) Thomas Norton jnr [1]
1439 William II Canynges(d.1474) [3]
1442 (Jan) Thomas Young(d.1476) John Sharp [1]
1447 (Jan) Thomas Young(d.1476) John Sharp, jnr (son of John Sharp 1429) [1]
1449 (Jan) Thomas Young(d.1476) John Sharp, jnr [1]
1449 (Nov) Thomas Young(d.1476) John Sharp, jnr [1]
1450 (Oct) Thomas Young(d.1476) William II Canynges(d.1474) [1]
1453 (Feb) John Shipward William Pa(vy?) [1]
1455 (Jul) Thomas Young(d.1476) William II Canynges(d.1474) [1]
1459 (Nov) John Shipward Philip Mede [1]
1460 (Sep) John Shipward Philip Mede [1]
1462 Thomas Meede [4]
1467 (Apr) William Spencer John Bagot [1]
1472 (Aug) John Twynyho John Bagot [1]
1478 (Jan) John Hawkes Edmund Westcote [1]
1483 (Jan) Edmund Westcote William Wykam [1]
1484 (Jan) John Twynyho Robert Strange [1]
1485 (Oct) John Esterfield Robert Strange (MP for Bristol) [1]
1487 (Oct) John Esterfield Henry Vaughan [1]
1490 (Jan) William Toker John Fisher [1]
1491 (Oct) John Syram™ (or Seymour?) John Pynke [1]
1495 (Oct) Henry Vaughan Philip Kingston [1]
1505 Henry Dale Thomas Snigg [1]
1510 )Jan) Richard Vaughan Henry Dale [1]
1512 (Jan) Thomas Smith Richard Hobby [1]
1523 (Apr) Robert Thorn Richard Hobby [1]
1529 Thomas Jubbes Richard Abingdon
1536 Nicholas Thorn Roger Coke
1539 Thomas White David Broke 1
1541 David Broke Robert Elyot
1545 Robert Keilway John Drewes
1553 John Walshe David Harris
1554 Thomas Lansden
1555 William Chester
1558 William Tyndall Robert Butler
1559 John Walshe William Carr
1563 John Walshe, made judge,
repl. by
Thomas Chester
William Carr
1571 John Popham Philip Langley
1584 Thomas Hanham Richard Cole
1586 Thomas Aldworth
1588 William Saltern
1593 Richard Cole
1597 George Snigge
made Baron of the Court of Exchequer
and replaced 1605 by John Whitson
William Ellys
1601 John Hopkins Non Partisan
1604 Thomas James Non Partisan
1614 John Whitson Non Partisan Thomas James Non Partisan
1621 John Barker Non-Partisan John Guy Non Partisan
1624 John Barker Non Partisan John Guy Non Partisan
1625 Nicholas Hyde Non Partisan John Whitson Non Partisan
1626 John Whitson Non Partisan John Doughty Non Partisan
1628 John Doughty Non Partisan John Barker Non Partisan
1640 (Mar) John Glanville Non Partisan Humphrey Hooke Non Partisan
1640 (Oct) Humphrey Hooke Non Partisan Richard Longe Non Partisan
1642 John Glanville Non Partisan John Tailer Non Partisan
1646 Richard Aldworth Non Partisan Luke Hodges Non Partisan
1654 Richard Aldworth Non Partisan Miles Jackson Non Partisan
1656 Robert Aldworth Non Partisan John Dodderidge
Miles Jackson
Non Partisan
1659 Robert Aldworth Non Partisan Joseph Jackson Non Partisan
1660 John Stephens Non Partisan Sir John Knight Non Partisan
1661 The Earl of Ossory 2Non Partisan
1666 Sir Humphrey Hooke 3Non Partisan
1678 Sir Robert Cann Non Partisan
1681 Thomas Earle Non Partisan
1681 Sir Richard Hart Non Partisan
1685 Sir John Churchill 4Non Partisan Sir Richard Crumpe Non Partisan
1685 Sir Richard Hart Non Partisan
1689 Sir John Knight II Non Partisan
1695 Sir Thomas Day Non Partisan Robert Yate Non Partisan
1701 Sir William Daines Non Partisan
1710 Edward Colston Tory Joseph Earle Non Partisan
1713 Thomas Edwards Non Partisan
1715 Sir William Daines Non Partisan
1722 Sir Abraham Elton, Bt I Non Partisan
1727 John Scrope Non Partisan Sir Abraham Elton, Bt II 6Non Partisan
1734 Thomas Coster 5Non Partisan
1739 Edward Southwell Non Partisan
1742 Robert Hoblyn Non Partisan
1754 Robert Craggs-Nugent
(later The Viscount Clare)
8
Whig Richard Beckford 7 Tory
1756 Jarrit Smith Tory
1768 Matthew Brickdale Tory
1774 Henry Cruger Whig Edmund Burke Whig
1780 Matthew Brickdale Tory [5] Sir Henry Lippincott, Bt 9 Tory [5]
1781 George Daubeny Tory [5]
1784 Henry Cruger Whig [5]
1790 Marquess of Worcester Tory The Lord Sheffield 10 Whig [5]
1796 Charles Bragge
(later Charles Bragge Bathurst)
11
Tory [5]
1802 Evan Baillie Whig [5]
1812 Richard Hart Davis Tory [5]
1812 Edward Protheroe I Whig [5]
1820 Henry Bright Whig [5] [6]
1830 James Evan Baillie Whig [5] [7]
1831 Edward Protheroe II Whig [5] [8]
1832 Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt Tory [5]
1834 Conservative [5]
1835 Philip John Miles Conservative [5]
1837 Philip William Skinner Miles Conservative [5] Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley 13 Radical [9] [10] [11]
1852 Henry Gore-Langton Whig [10]
1859 Liberal Liberal
1865 Sir Morton Peto 12 Liberal
1868 John Miles Conservative
1868 Samuel Morley Liberal
1870 Elisha Smith Robinson 14 Liberal
1870 Kirkman Hodgson 12 Liberal
1878 Lewis Fry Liberal
1885 constituency divided. See Bristol East, Bristol North, Bristol South and Bristol West.

Notes:-

Elections

During the existence of this constituency, Bristol was a city with the status of being a county of itself. That meant that the city was not subject to the administration of the officials of the geographic counties in which it was situated. In electoral terms it meant that the voters for the parliamentary borough included those qualified on the same 40 shilling freeholder franchise as that for a county constituency. Other electors qualified as freemen of the borough. These were the ancient right franchises, applicable to Bristol, preserved by the Reform Act 1832, which also introduced a broader occupation franchise for all borough constituencies.

Bristol was a fairly partisan constituency in the eighteenth century with two rival clubs - the Union Club for the Whigs and the Steadfast Society for the Tories. [12]

The bloc vote electoral system was used in two seat elections and first past the post for single member by-elections. Each voter had up to as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings (until the secret ballot was introduced in 1872).

Namier and Brooke, in The House of Commons 1754-1790, estimated the electorate of Bristol to number about 5,000. [13] When registration of electors was introduced in 1832 the city had 10,315 names on the electoral register.

Note on percentage change calculations: Where there was only one candidate of a party in successive elections, for the same number of seats, change is calculated on the party percentage vote. Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote.

Note on sources: The information for the election results given below is taken from Sedgwick 1715–1754, Namier and Brooke 1754–1790, Stooks Smith 1790-1832 and from Craig thereafter. Where Stooks Smith gives additional information or differs from the other sources this is indicated in a note after the result.

1710s1720s1730s1740s1750s1760s1770s1780s1790s1800s1810s1820s1830s1840s1850s1860s1870s1880s

Elections in the 1710s

General election 9 February 1715: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig William Daines 1,93624.87N/A
Whig Joseph Earle 1,87924.14N/A
Tory Philip Freke 1,99125.58N/A
Tory Thomas Edwards 1,97825.41N/A

Elections in the 1720s

General election 28 March 1722: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Joseph Earle 2,14137.22+13.08
Whig Abraham Elton 1,86932.49N/A
Tory William Hart 1,74330.30N/A
General election 8 September 1727: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig John Scrope UnopposedN/AN/A
Whig Abraham Elton UnopposedN/AN/A

Elections in the 1730s

General election 24 May 1734: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Abraham Elton 2,42838.15N/A
Tory Thomas Coster 2,07132.54N/A
Whig John Scrope 1,86629.32N/A
By-Election 12 December 1739: Bristol
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Edward Southwell 2,65154.61N/A
Non Partisan Henry Combe 2,20345.39N/A
Majority4489.23N/A
Whig gain from Tory Swing N/A

Elections in the 1740s

General election 13 May 1741: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Abraham Elton UnopposedN/AN/A
Whig Edward Southwell UnopposedN/AN/A
By-Election 24 November 1742: Bristol
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Robert Hoblyn UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory gain from Whig Swing N/A
General election 1 July 1747: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Edward Southwell UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory Robert Hoblyn UnopposedN/AN/A

Elections in the 1750s

General election 1 May 1754: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Robert Nugent 2,59237.04N/A
Tory Richard Beckford 2,24532.09N/A
Tory John Philipps 2,16030.87N/A
By-Election 18 March 1756: Bristol
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Jarrit Smith 2,41850.75N/A
Whig John Spencer 2,34749.25N/A
Majority711.49N/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
By-Election 26 December 1759: Bristol
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Robert Nugent UnopposedN/AN/A
Whig hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1760s

General election 27 March 1761: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Robert Nugent UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory Jarrit Smith UnopposedN/AN/A
By-Election 16 December 1766: Bristol
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Robert Nugent UnopposedN/AN/A
Whig hold Swing N/A
General election 16 March 1768: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Robert Nugent UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory Matthew Brickdale UnopposedN/AN/A
By-Election 27 June 1768: Bristol
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Robert Nugent UnopposedN/AN/A
Whig hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1770s

General election 3 November 1774: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Henry Cruger 3,56539.56N/A
Whig Edmund Burke 2,70730.04N/A
Tory Matthew Brickdale 2,45627.26N/A
Whig Robert Nugent 2833.14N/A

Elections in the 1780s

General election 20 September 1780: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Matthew Brickdale 2,77137.62+10.36
Tory Henry Lippincott 2,51834.18N/A
Whig Henry Cruger 1,27117.2522.31
Whig Samuel Peach 78810.70N/A
Whig Edmund Burke 180.2429.80
By-Election 26 February 1781: Bristol
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory George Daubeny 3,14353.15N/A
Whig Henry Cruger 2,77146.85N/A
Majority3726.29N/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
General election 10 May 1784: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Matthew Brickdale 3,45835.052.57
Whig Henry Cruger 3,05230.93+13.68
Tory George Daubeny 2,98430.24N/A
Whig Samuel Peach 3733.736.97

Elections in the 1790s

General election 1790: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Henry Somerset 54449.54N/A
Whig John Baker-Holroyd 53748.91N/A
Non Partisan -. Lewis121.09N/A
Non Partisan William Cunningham 50.46N/A
General election 1796: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Charles Bragge 36444.834.71
Whig John Baker-Holroyd 34041.877.04
Whig Benjamin Hobhouse 10813.30N/A

Elections in the 1800s

Co-option 1801: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Charles Bragge Co-opted N/AN/A
Whig John Baker-Holroyd Co-opted N/AN/A
By-Election November 1801: Bristol
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Charles Bragge Unopposed N/AN/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
General election 1802: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Charles Bragge Unopposed N/AN/A
Whig Evan Baillie Unopposed N/AN/A
By-Election August 1803: Bristol
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Charles Bragge Unopposed N/AN/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
General election 1806: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Charles Bathurst Unopposed N/AN/A
Whig Evan Baillie Unopposed N/AN/A
General election 1807: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Charles Bathurst Unopposed N/AN/A
Whig Evan Baillie Unopposed N/AN/A

Elections in the 1810s

By-Election July 1812: Bristol
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Richard Hart Davis1,90789.03N/A
Radical Henry Hunt 23510.97N/A
Radical William Cobbett 00.00N/A
Majority1,67278.06N/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
General election 1812: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Richard Hart Davis2,91039.24N/A
Whig Edward Protheroe2,43532.84N/A
Whig Samuel Romilly 1,61521.78N/A
Radical Henry Hunt 4556.14N/A
General election 1818: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Richard Hart Davis3,37746.13+6.89
Whig Edward Protheroe2,25930.861.98
Whig Hugh Duncan Baillie 1,68423.01+23.01

Elections in the 1820s

General election 1820: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Henry Bright 2,97550.45+50.45
Tory Richard Hart Davis2,79547.40+1.27
Whig Hugh Duncan Baillie 1272.1520.86
General election 1826: Bristol (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Richard Hart Davis3,88748.14+0.74
Whig Henry Bright 2,31428.6621.79
Whig Edward Protheroe1,87423.21+23.21

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Bristol (2 seats) [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Richard Hart Davis 5,012 44.6
Whig James Evan Baillie 3,378 30.1
Whig Edward Davis Protheroe 2,84225.3
Radical James Acland80.0N/A
Turnout 6,311N/A
Majority1,63414.5
Tory hold Swing
Majority3,37030.1N/A
Whig hold Swing
General election 1831: Bristol (2 seats) [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig James Evan Baillie Unopposed
Whig Edward Davis Protheroe Unopposed
Whig hold
Whig gain from Tory
General election 14 December 1832: Bristol (2 seats) [5] [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Richard Vyvyan 3,697 29.3 New
Whig James Evan Baillie 3,159 25.0 N/A
Whig Edward Davis Protheroe 3,03024.0N/A
Whig John Williams2,74121.7N/A
Majority5384.3N/A
Turnout 6,63164.3N/A
Registered electors 10,315
Tory gain from Whig Swing N/A
Whig hold Swing N/A
General election 9 January 1835: Bristol (2 seats) [5] [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip John Miles 3,709 32.7 +18.1
Conservative Richard Vyvyan 3,313 29.2 +14.6
Whig James Evan Baillie 2,51822.248.5
Radical John Hobhouse [15] 1,80815.9N/A
Majority7957.0+2.7
Turnout 5,87958.26.1
Registered electors 10,100
Conservative hold Swing +21.2
Conservative gain from Whig Swing +19.4
General election 22 July 1837: Bristol (2 seats) [5] [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip William Skinner Miles 3,839 37.6 +4.9
Radical Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley 3,212 31.5 +15.6
Conservative William Fripp3,15630.9+1.7
Turnout 6,37563.8+5.6
Registered electors 9,992
Majority6276.10.9
Conservative hold Swing 1.5
Majority560.6N/A
Radical gain from Conservative Swing +4.5

Elections in the 1840s

General election 28 June 1841: Bristol (2 seats) [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip William Skinner Miles 4,193 36.1 1.5
Radical Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley 3,739 32.2 +0.7
Conservative William Fripp3,68431.7+0.8
Turnout 5,808 (est)52.1 (est)11.7
Registered electors 11,150
Majority4543.92.2
Conservative hold Swing +0.9
Majority550.5-0.1
Radical hold Swing +0.7
General election 1847: Bristol (2 seats) [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Radical Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley 4,381 45.5 +29.4
Conservative Philip William Skinner Miles 2,595 27.0 9.1
Conservative William Fripp2,47625.76.0
Radical Apsley Pellatt 1711.814.3
Turnout 6,91362.7+10.6
Registered electors 11,032
Majority1,78618.5+18.0
Radical hold Swing +18.5
Majority2,42425.0+21.1
Conservative hold Swing 8.3

Elections in the 1850s

General election 10 July 1852: Bristol (2 seats) [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Radical Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley 4,681 36.4 10.9
Whig Henry Gore-Langton 4,531 35.3 N/A
Conservative Foster Alleyne McGeachy3,63228.324.4
Turnout 6,422 (est)51.2 (est)11.5
Registered electors 12,548
Majority1501.117.4
Radical hold Swing +6.8
Majority8997.0N/A
Whig gain from Conservative Swing N/A
General election 27 March 1857: Bristol (2 seats) [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Radical Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley Unopposed
Whig Henry Gore-Langton Unopposed
Registered electors 12,612
Radical hold
Whig hold
General election 30 April 1859: Bristol (2 seats) [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley 4,432 34.3 N/A
Liberal Henry Gore-Langton 4,285 33.2 N/A
Conservative Frederick William Slade [16] 4,20532.5New
Majority800.7N/A
Turnout 6,461 (est)50.0 (est)N/A
Registered electors 12,929
Liberal hold Swing N/A
Liberal hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1860s

General election 15 July 1865: Bristol (2 seats) [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley 5,296 35.8 +1.5
Liberal Morton Peto 5,228 35.3 +2.1
Conservative Thomas Fremantle 4,26928.93.6
Majority9596.5+5.8
Turnout 9,531 (est)84.3 (est)+34.3
Registered electors 11,303
Liberal hold Swing +1.7
Liberal hold Swing +2.0
By-Election 30 April 1868: Bristol [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Miles 5,173 51.0 +22.1
Liberal Samuel Morley 4,97749.022.1
Majority1962.0N/A
Turnout 10,15089.8+5.5
Registered electors 11,303
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +22.1
General election 16 November 1868: Bristol (2 seats) [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley 8,759 36.2 +0.4
Liberal Samuel Morley 8,714 36.1 +0.8
Conservative John Miles 6,69427.71.2
Majority2,0208.4+1.9
Turnout 15,431 (est)72.9 (est)11.4
Registered electors 21,153
Liberal hold Swing +0.5
Liberal hold Swing +0.7

Elections in the 1870s

By-Election 29 March 1870: Bristol [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Elisha Smith Robinson 7,882 52.7 19.6
Conservative Sholto Vere Hare [17] 7,06247.3+19.6
Majority8205.52.9
Turnout 14,94470.62.3
Registered electors 21,153
Liberal hold Swing 19.6
By-Election 27 June 1870: Bristol [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Kirkman Hodgson 7,816 51.9 20.4
Conservative Sholto Vere Hare [17] 7,23848.1+20.4
Majority5783.84.6
Turnout 15,05471.21.7
Registered electors 21,153
Liberal hold Swing 20.4
General election 5 February 1874: Bristol (2 seats) [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Kirkman Hodgson 8,888 26.3 9.9
Liberal Samuel Morley 8,732 25.8 10.3
Conservative Sholto Vere Hare [17] 8,55225.3+11.4
Conservative George Henry Chambers [18] 7,62622.6+8.7
Majority1800.57.9
Turnout 16,899 (est)73.9 (est)+1.0
Registered electors 22,867
Liberal hold Swing 9.4
Liberal hold Swing 9.5
By-Election 16 December 1878: Bristol [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Lewis Fry 9,342 54.5 +2.4
Conservative Ivor Guest 7,79545.52.4
Majority1,5479.0+8.5
Turnout 17,13769.04.9
Registered electors 24,851
Liberal hold Swing +2.4

Elections in the 1880s

General election April 1880: Bristol (2 seats) [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Samuel Morley 10,704 31.2 +5.4
Liberal Lewis Fry 10,070 29.4 +3.1
Conservative Ivor Guest 9,39527.4+2.1
Liberal Elisha Smith Robinson 4,10012.0N/A
Majority6752.0N/A
Turnout 17,135 (est)73.8 (est)0.1
Registered electors 23,229
Liberal hold Swing +2.2
Liberal hold Swing +1.0

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