Parliamentary representation from Rutland

The historic county of Rutland in the east midlands of England was represented in Parliament from the 13th century. This article provides a list of constituencies constituting the Parliamentary representation from Rutland.

The historic county was a single constituency, for parliamentary purposes, until 1918. From that year the county was linked with a part of a neighbouring historic county, first Lincolnshire and then Leicestershire.

The first part of this article covers the constituency wholly within the area of the historic county of Rutland, before 1918. The second part refers to constituencies mostly in another historic county, which included the historic county of Rutland. The summaries section only refers to the constituencies included in the first section of the constituency list.

List of constituencies

Article names are followed by (UK Parliament constituency). The constituency which existed in 1707 were those previously represented in the Parliament of England.

Key to abbreviations:-

• (Type) BC Borough constituency, CC County constituency.
• (Administrative County in Notes) Le administrative/shire county of Leicestershire, Li administrative/shire county of Lincolnshire, R historic county of Rutland.

Constituency in the historic county

Constituency	Type	From	To	MPs	Notes
Rutland	CC	1290	1918	2 (1290-1885)	R
				1 (1885–1918)

Constituencies mostly in another historic county

Constituency	Type	From	To	MPs	Notes
Rutland and Melton	CC	1983	*	1	R/Le
Rutland and Stamford	CC	1918	1983	1	R/Li

Periods constituencies represented

	1290–1918	1918–1983	1983–*
Rutland	1290–1918
Rutland and Melton			1983–*
Rutland and Stamford		1918–1983

Summaries

Summary of constituencies by type and period

Type	1290-1918
County	1
Total	1

Summary of members of parliament by type and period

Type	1290-1885	1885-1918
County	2	1
Total	2	1

See also

• Wikipedia:Index of article on UK Parliament constituencies in England
• Wikipedia:Index of articles on UK Parliament constituencies in England N-Z
• Parliamentary representation by historic counties
• First Protectorate Parliament
• Unreformed House of Commons

References

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)
• The House of Commons 1509-1558, by S.T. Bindoff (Secker & Warburg 1982)
• The House of Commons 1558-1603, by P.W. Hasler (HMSO 1981)
• The House of Commons 1660-1690, by Basil Duke Henning (Secker & Warburg 1983)
• The House of Commons 1715-1754, by Romney Sedgwick (HMSO 1970)
• The House of Commons 1754-1790, by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964)
• The House of Commons 1790-1820, by R.G. Thorne (Secker & Warburg 1986)
• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973) out of copyright