| East Riding of Yorkshire | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1832 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | county |
| Elects Howmany: | Two |
| Region: | England |
| County: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
The East Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency covering the East Riding of Yorkshire, omitting Beverley residents save a small minority of Beverley residents who also qualified on property grounds to vote in the county seat (mainly business-owning forty shilling freeholders). It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. A brief earlier guise of the seat covered the changed franchise of the First Protectorate Parliament and Second Protectorate Parliament during a fraction of the twenty years of England and Wales (Scotland and Ireland) existed as a republic.
The seat existed for the June 1654 to January 1655 parliament and for that following (July 1656 to September 1656). The East Riding electorate summoned four members simultaneously.
| +Parliaments of the Protectorate | No. | Summoned | Elected | Assembled | Dissolved | Sessions | Speaker | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 June 1654 | 1654 | 3 September 1654 | 22 January 1655 | 1 | 1st Protectorate Parliament | |||
| 10 July 1656 | 1656 | 17 September 1656 | 4 February 1658 | 2 | 2nd Protectorate Parliament | |||
| 9 December 1658 | 1658–59 | 27 January 1659 | 22 April 1659 | 1 | 3rd Protectorate Parliament | |||
| Lislebone Long (Deputy) | ||||||||
The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 as the four-seat Yorkshire was divided in three, two-seat divisions for the 1832 general election. The divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. It was replaced for the 1885 general election by single-member seats: Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire.
Candidates were elected unopposed at most of the elections throughout its existence; contested elections took place in 1837, 1868 and 1880. In these contests two Conservative candidates defeated a single Whig or Liberal.
| Election | First member | Second member | Third member | Fourth member |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1654 | Sir William Strickland | Hugh Bethell | Richard Robinson | Walter Strickland |
| 1656 | Robert Lilburne | George Eure, 7th Baron Eure | Richard Darley | Hugh Darley |
| Election | 1st member | 1st party | 2nd member | 2nd party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | constituency created by division of the Yorkshire constituency | ||||||
| 1832 | Richard Bethell | Tory[1] | Paul Thompson | Whig[2] | |||
| 1834 | Conservative | ||||||
| 1837 | Henry Broadley | Conservative | |||||
| 1841 | The Lord Hotham | Conservative | |||||
| 1851 by-election | Hon. Arthur Duncombe | Conservative | |||||
| 1868 | Christopher Sykes | Conservative | William Harrison-Broadley | Conservative | |||
| 1885 | constituency abolished: see Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire | ||||||
Broadley's death caused a by-election.
Duncombe was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, requiring a by-election.