Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)
Former parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom
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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.
| 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 |
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.
Boundaries
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.
History
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]
