Cinque ports parliament constituencies

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Until the Reform Act 1832, there were eight constituencies in the Parliament of England and its successors related to the Cinque Ports. [1] The cinque port constituencies were slightly different from parliamentary boroughs. The 1832 Act abolished most such distinctions, and disfranchised some of the cinque ports as rotten.

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The eight constituencies were:

Peculiarities

The ways in which the cinque ports differed from parliamentary boroughs included:

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  1. ↑ Porritt & Porritt 1903, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Porritt & Porritt 1903, p. 166.
  3. ↑ Porritt & Porritt 1903, p. 502.
  4. 1 2 Porritt & Porritt 1903, p. 547.
  5. ↑ Porritt & Porritt 1903, p. 44.
  6. ↑ "William and Mary, 1689: An Act to Declare the Right and Freedome of Election of Members to serve in Parlyament for the CinquePorts. [Chapter VII. Rot. Parl. pt. 1. nu. 9.]". The Statutes of the Realm . Vol. 6, 1685–94. Record Commission. 1819. p. 170. Retrieved 3 February 2022– via British History Online.

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