East Gloucestershire
Former parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom
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East Gloucestershire, formally the Eastern division of Gloucestershire and often referred to as Gloucestershire Eastern, was a parliamentary constituency in Gloucestershire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) using the bloc vote system.
| East Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
| Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Gloucestershire |
| 1832–1885 | |
| Seats | Two |
| Created from | Gloucestershire |
| Replaced by | Tewkesbury Cirencester Stroud Thornbury |
The constituency was created when the Great Reform Act split Gloucestershire into eastern and western divisions, with effect from the 1832 general election.
Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, East Gloucestershire was abolished from the 1885 election, when the former eastern and western divisions were replaced by five new single-seat county constituencies: Cirencester, Forest of Dean, Stroud, Tewkesbury, and Thornbury.
Boundaries
1832–1885: The Hundreds of Crowthorne and Minety, Brightwell's Barrow, Bradley, Rapsgate, Bisley, Longtree, Whitstone, Kiftsgate, Westminster, Deerhurst, Slaughter, Cheltenham, Cleeve, Tibaldston, Tewkesbury, and Dudstone and King's Barton, and also the City and County of Gloucester and the Borough of Cirencester.[1]
The constituency was the eastern division of the historic county of Gloucestershire, in South West England.
The place of election was at Gloucester. This was where the hustings were situated and electors voted by spoken declaration in public, before the secret ballot was introduced in 1872.
The qualification to vote in county elections, in the period when this constituency operated, was to be a 40 shilling freeholder.
The parliamentary borough constituencies of Cheltenham, Cirencester, Gloucester, Stroud, and Tewkesbury were all located in East Gloucestershire. Qualified freeholders from those boroughs could vote in the county division. Bristol was a "county of itself", so its freeholders qualified to vote in the borough, not in any county division.
Members of Parliament
| Election | 1st member | 1st party | 2nd member | 2nd party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1832, 21 December | Sir Berkeley Guise, Bt[2] | Whig[3] | Hon. Henry Reynolds-Moreton | Whig[3] | ||
| 1834, 7 August | Sir Christopher William Codrington[4] | Tory[3] | ||||
| 1835, 10 January | Conservative[3] | Hon. Augustus Moreton | Whig[3][5] | |||
| 1841, 5 July | Hon. Francis Charteris | Conservative[3] | ||||
| 1846, 27 February | Henry Somerset[6] | Conservative | ||||
| 1854, 9 January | Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt[7] | Conservative | ||||
| 1854, 19 December | Robert Stayner Holford[8] | Conservative | ||||
| 1864, 12 July | Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt | Conservative | ||||
| 1872, 11 March | John Yorke | Conservative | ||||
| 1885 | constituency abolished | |||||
Election results
Elections in the 1880s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Hicks Beach | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
- Caused by Hicks Beach's appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Hicks Beach | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative | John Yorke | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 8,579 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
Elections in the 1870s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Hicks-Beach | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
- Caused by Hicks-Beach's appointment as Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Hicks-Beach | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative | John Yorke | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 9,157 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Yorke | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
- Caused by Holford's resignation.
Elections in the 1860s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Hicks-Beach | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative | Robert Stayner Holford | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 8,858 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Hicks-Beach | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative | Robert Stayner Holford | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 7,515 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Hicks-Beach | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
- Caused by Codrington's death.
Elections in the 1850s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Christopher William Codrington | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative | Robert Stayner Holford | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 7,816 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Christopher William Codrington | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative | Robert Stayner Holford | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 7,891 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Robert Stayner Holford | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
- Caused by Hicks-Beach's death.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Hicks-Beach | 3,363 | 58.9 | N/A | |
| Whig | Edward Holland[10] | 2,344 | 41.1 | New | |
| Majority | 1,019 | 17.8 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 5,707 | 72.2 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 7,906 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
- Caused by Henry Somerset's succession to the Peerage as 8th Duke of Beaufort
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Christopher William Codrington | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative | Henry Somerset | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 7,986 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
Elections in the 1840s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Christopher William Codrington | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative | Henry Somerset | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 7,803 | −2.1 | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Henry Somerset | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
- Resignation of Charteris
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Francis Charteris | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative | Christopher William Codrington | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 7,971 | +4.9 | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Conservative gain from Whig | |||||
Elections in the 1830s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Christopher William Codrington | Unopposed | |||
| Whig | Augustus Morton | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 7,598 | +16.5 | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Whig hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Christopher William Codrington | Unopposed | |||
| Whig | Augustus Morton | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 6,521 | −0.7 | |||
| Conservative gain from Whig | |||||
| Whig hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tory | Christopher William Codrington | 2,779 | 50.6 | +21.5 | |
| Whig | Thomas Leigh[11] | 2,709 | 49.4 | −21.4 | |
| Majority | 70 | 1.2 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 5,488 | 83.5 | −5.9 | ||
| Registered electors | 6,569 | +2.1 | |||
| Tory gain from Whig | |||||
- Death of Guise
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whig | Berkeley Guise | 3,311 | 36.1 | ||
| Whig | Henry Reynolds-Moreton | 3,184 | 34.7 | ||
| Tory | Christopher William Codrington | 2,672 | 29.1 | ||
| Majority | 512 | 5.6 | |||
| Turnout | 5,753 | 89.4 | |||
| Registered electors | 6,437 | ||||
| Whig win (new seat) | |||||
| Whig win (new seat) | |||||