North Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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| North Northamptonshire County constituency |
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| Created: | 1832 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two until 1885, then one |
North Northamptonshire was a county constituency in Northamptonshire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election, when it was merged into Peterborough.
[edit] Members of Parliament
From 1832 until 1885, the constituency returned two Members of Parliament elected by the bloc vote system. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, with effect from the 1885 general election, its area was reduced and representation reduced to one member, elected by the first past the post voting system.
[edit] 1832 - 1885
| Year | Senior Member (1) | Party | Junior Member (2) | Party | ||
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| 1832 | Viscount Milton | Whig | Lord Brudenell | Tory (then Conservative) | ||
| 1833 | Lord Brudenell | Conservative | Viscount Milton | Whig | ||
| 1835 | Lord Brudenell | Conservative | Thomas Philip Maunsell | Conservative | ||
| 1837 | Thomas Philip Maunsell | Conservative | Viscount Maidstone | Conservative | ||
| 1841 | Thomas Philip Maunsell | Conservative | Augustus Stafford O'Brien-Stafford | Conservative | ||
| 1857 | George Ward Hunt | Conservative | Lord Burghley | Conservative | ||
| 1867 | George Ward Hunt | Conservative | Sackville George Stopford-Sackville | Conservative | ||
| 1877 | Sackville George Stopford-Sackville | Conservative | Lord Burghley | Conservative | ||
| 1880 | Lord Burghley | Conservative | Hon Charles Robert Spencer | Liberal | ||
(1) Refers to the longest-serving member for North Northamptonshire at that time.
(2) Refers to the shortest-serving member for North Northamptonshire at that time.
[edit] 1885 - 1918
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Lord Burghley | Conservative | |
| 1895 | Edward Philip Monckton | Conservative | |
| 1900 | Sackville George Stopford-Sackville | Conservative | |
| 1906 | George Nicholls | Conservative | |
| 1910 | Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey | Conservative | |
| 1918 | constituency abolished | ||
[edit] Election results
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