Kingston upon Hull, often simply referred to as Hull, was a
parliamentary constituency
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other poli ...
in Yorkshire, electing two members of parliament to the
House of Commons
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of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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, from 1305 until 1885. Its MPs included the anti-slavery campaigner,
William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce (24 August 175929 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becom ...
, and the poet
Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell (; 31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend ...
.
History
Kingston upon Hull was a
borough constituency in the town (later city) of
Hull. Until the
Great Reform Act
The Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced major changes to the electo ...
of 1832, it consisted only of the parish of St Mary's, Hull and part of Holy Trinity, Hull, entirely to the west of the River Hull. This excluded parts of the urban area which had not been originally part of the town, but some of these – the rest of Holy Trinity parish,
Sculcoates,
Drypool
Drypool (''archaic'' DripoleAlso Dritpole, Dritpol, Dripold, Dripol, Dridpol) is an area within the city of Kingston upon Hull, England.
Historically Drypool was a village, manor and later parish on the east bank of the River Hull near the con ...
, Garrisonside and part of
Sutton-on-Hull – were brought into the constituency by boundary changes in 1832. This increased the population of the borough from around 16,000 to almost 50,000.
The borough sent its first two known Members to the Parliament of 1305 and thereafter with fair regularity from 1334. Until the Reform Act, the right to vote in Hull was vested in the
freemen of the city, which made the constituency one of the larger and more competitive ones. At the
general election of 1831, 2,174 voters went to the polls.
The Hull constituency was abolished for the
1885 general election, the city being divided into three single-member constituencies,
Kingston upon Hull Central,
Kingston upon Hull East
Kingston upon Hull East is a borough constituency for the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years by the first-past-the-post electoral system. The constitu ...
and
Kingston upon Hull West.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1305–1640
MPs 1640–1885
Election results
Elections in the 1830s
Carruthers' death caused a by-election.
* On petition, Wilberforce's election was declared void and Hutt was declared elected in 1838.
Elections in the 1840s
Baines was appointed
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, requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1850s
After an election petition committee found evidence of bribery and treating, both members were unseated and the writ was suspended in March 1853. A by-election was then held in August 1854.
Watson resigned after being appointed a
Baron of the Exchequer, causing a by-election.
Hoare was unseated after an election petition committee found evidence of corruption, causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s
Elections in the 1870s
Clay's death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1880s
Notes
References
External links
*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)*F. W. S. Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
*J. Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales" (New Haven:
Yale University Press
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, Yale Universi ...
, 1965)
*Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig – Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
*Frederic A. Youngs, jr., "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II" (London:
Royal Historical Society
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Origins
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, 1991)
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Politics of Kingston upon Hull
Parliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (historic)
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1305
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1885