Elections
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| Yarmouth | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Isle of Wight |
| Major settlements | Yarmouth |
| 1584–1832 | |
| Seats | Two |
| Created from | Hampshire |
| Replaced by | Isle of Wight |
Yarmouth was a borough constituency of the House of Commons of England then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two members of parliament (MPs), elected by the bloc vote system.
The constituency was abolished by the Reform Act 1832, and from the 1832 general election its territory was included in the new county constituency of Isle of Wight.
The constituency was a Parliamentary borough on the Isle of Wight, part of the historic county of Hampshire. Its boundaries were coterminous with the parish of Yarmouth. At the time that it was disfranchised, there were 114 houses in the borough and town, and a population of only 586.
The borough was seen as a rotten borough and in the late eighteenth century was managed, together with the other Isle of Wight boroughs of Newtown and Newport by Thomas Holmes. [1]
| Parliament | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1584 | Arthur Gorges | William Stubbs |
| 1586 | Thomas West | John Duncombe |
| 1588 | Daniel Hills | John Howe |
| 1593 | Robert Dillington | Robert Crosse |
| 1597 | Benedict Barnham | John Snow |
| 1601 | William Cotton | Stephen Theobald |
| 1604 | Thomas Cheeke | Arthur Bromfield |
| 1614 | Arthur Bromfield | Sir Thomas Cheeke |
| 1621–1622 | Arthur Bromfield | Thomas Risley |
| 1624 | Thomas Risley | William Beeston |
| 1625 | Edward Clarke sat for Hythe replaced by Sir John Suckling | John Oglander |
| 1626 | Sir Edward Conway | Sir John Oglander |
| 1628–1629 | Edward Dennis | Sir John Oglander |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned |
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Great Yarmouth is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since the 2024 general election by Rupert Lowe of Reform UK.
Isle of Wight was a constituency that was last represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2017 until 2024 by Bob Seely, a Conservative.
Newtown was a parliamentary borough located in Newtown on the Isle of Wight, which was represented in the House of Commons of England until 1707, then in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two members of parliament (MPs), elected by the bloc vote system.
Newport was a parliamentary borough located in Newport, which was abolished in for the 1885 general election. It was occasionally referred to by the alternative name of Medina.
Aldborough was a parliamentary borough located in the West Riding of Yorkshire, abolished in the Great Reform Act of 1832.
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Weymouth and Melcombe Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset represented in the English House of Commons, later in that of Great Britain, and finally in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was formed by the Union of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Act 1571 which amalgamated the existing boroughs of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Until 1832, the combined borough continued to elect the four Members of Parliament (MPs) to which its constituent parts had previously been entitled; the Great Reform Act reduced its representation to two Members, and the constituency was abolished altogether in 1885, becoming part of the new South Dorset constituency.
Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes was a British politician who was Vice-Admiral and Governor of the Isle of Wight (1763–4) and sat in the House of Commons between 1727 and 1774. He managed elections in the government interest in the Isle of Wight during the 1750s and 1760s.
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