Former parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom
Rye was aparliamentary constituency centred on the town ofRye inEast Sussex . It returned twoMembers of Parliament to the Parliament of England before 1707, Parliament of Great Britain until 1801 and theHouse of Commons of theParliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was halved under theReform Act 1832 .
From the1832 general election , Rye returned oneMember of Parliament until its abolition for the1950 general election , when the town of Rye itself was transferred to the redrawnHastings constituency.
The constituency was re-created for the1955 general election , and abolished again for the1983 general election when it was largely replaced by theBexhill and Battle parliamentary constituency .[ 1]
1885–1918 : The Municipal Boroughs of Hastings and Rye, the Sessional Divisions of Battle, Burwash, Frant, Hastings, and Rye, the ancient town of Winchelsea, and the Liberty of the Sluice and Petit Iham.
1918–1950 : The Municipal Boroughs of Bexhill and Rye, the Urban District of Battle, the Rural Districts of Battle, Hastings, Rye, and Ticehurst, and in the Rural District of Hailsham the civil parishes of Heathfield, Herstmonceux, Hooe, Ninfield, Warbleton, and Wartling.
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1955–1983 : The Municipal Boroughs of Bexhill and Rye, the Rural District of Battle, and part of the Rural District of Hailsham.
Members of Parliament [ edit ] Elections in the 1830s [ edit ] Bonham resigned, causing a by-election.
15 votes for De Lacy Evans were rejected but, after petition, he was declared elected on 17 May 1830 and Pusey's election was declared void.[ 7] [ 16] 200 inhabitants voted for Evans and Smith, but these were rejected[ 7] A riot broke out during the poll and it was then agreed that Pusey withdrew from the contest on the condition that De Lacy Evan's party would protect the peace of the town. Just three electors polled on the second day.[ 7] Elections in the 1840s [ edit ] Curteis' death caused a by-election.
Curteis' election was declared void on petition on 27 March 1848, due to insufficient notice being given of the election, causing a by-election.[ 19]
Elections in the 1850s [ edit ] Mackinnon was unseated when his election was declared void on petition due to bribery and treating, causing a by-election.[ 21] [ 22]
Elections in the 1860s [ edit ] Elections in the 1870s [ edit ] Elections in the 1880s [ edit ] Inderwick Elections in the 1890s [ edit ] Elections in the 1900s [ edit ] Hutchinson Elections in the 1910s [ edit ] Elections in the 1920s [ edit ] Elections in the 1930s [ edit ] Elections in the 1940s [ edit ] General Election 1939–40 :Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
Elections in the 1950s [ edit ] Elections in the 1960s [ edit ] Elections in the 1970s [ edit ] ^a b " .ElectionWeb Project . Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived fromthe original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved24 March 2016 .^ LUNCEFORD, Simon (d.c.1390), of Rye, Suss. and New Romney, Kent. | History of Parliament Online ^a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai "History of Parliament" . History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved30 November 2011 .^a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament" . History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved30 November 2011 .^ Expelled 1641 for being a tobacco monopolist ^ Styled Lord Hawkesbury from 1796 ^a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq Stooks Smith, Henry (1845).The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive 90– 92. Retrieved29 November 2018 – viaGoogle Books . ^ Arbuthnot was also elected forSt Germans , which he chose to represent, and never sat for Rye ^ Pusey was originally declared elected, but by an order of the House of Commons on 17 May 1830 his name was erased from the return and that of De Lacy Evans was substituted ^ Crosby, George (1843).Crosby's Political Record of Parliamentary Elections in Great Britain and Ireland: With Select Biographical Notices and Speeches of Distinguished Statesmen . Retrieved7 July 2018 . ^ "The Late Failures" Bell's Weekly Messenger 4– 5. Retrieved7 July 2018 – viaBritish Newspaper Archive .^ Dod, Charles Roger ; Dod, Robert Phipps (1847).Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Volume 15 Dod's Parliamentary Companion . p. 153. Retrieved29 November 2018 – viaGoogle Books .^ "John Stewart" .Legacies of British Slave-ownership . University College London. Retrieved21 May 2018 .^ "The New Parliament" Reading Mercury . 7 August 1847. p. 2. Retrieved21 May 2018 – viaBritish Newspaper Archive .^ Roberts, David (2016).Paternalism in Early Victorian England ISBN 978-1-315-61965-1 . Retrieved21 May 2018 . ^a b c d Fisher, David R."Rye" .The History of Parliament . Retrieved22 April 2020 . ^a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Craig, F. W. S. , ed. (1977).British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press.ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3 ^ "English Cities and Boroughs" Globe . 20 August 1847. p. 1. Retrieved30 November 2018 – viaBritish Newspaper Archive .^ "Election Committees" Morning Post . 27 March 1848. p. 2. Retrieved29 November 2018 – viaBritish Newspaper Archive .^ "Sussex Advertiser" 4– 5. Retrieved7 July 2018 – viaBritish Newspaper Archive .^ "Rye" Shipping and Mercantile Gazette . 20 May 1853. p. 8. Retrieved7 July 2018 – viaBritish Newspaper Archive .^ Morning Chronicle 3 March 1854 ^ "Rye" Brighton Guardian . 19 July 1865. p. 7. Retrieved17 March 2018 – viaBritish Newspaper Archive .^ "Rye" Brighton Gazette . 19 November 1868. p. 7. Retrieved17 March 2018 – viaBritish Newspaper Archive .^ "Albert Fytche" Hastings and St Leonards Observer . 7 February 1874. p. 8. Retrieved18 January 2018 – viaBritish Newspaper Archive .^a b c d e f g British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig) ^a b British parliamentary election results 1885-1918, Craig, F.W.S. ^a b c d e f g h British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 (Craig) ^ Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, 22 July 1939 ^a b c British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig ^a b F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973 ^a b British parliamentary election results, 1974-1977 by FWS Craig Robert Beatson,A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)[1] D Brunton & D H Pennington,Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)titles A-Z F W S Craig,British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (Aldershot, UK: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989, 2nd edition) J E Neale,The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949) J Holladay Philbin,Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965) Robert Walcott,English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956) Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
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