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The historic county of
Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
in south-west England was represented in Parliament from the 13th century. This article provides a list of constituencies constituting the Parliamentary representation from Cornwall. In 1889 an administrative county of Cornwall was created. Unlike many other counties there has been no major change between the historic and administrative county boundaries. The first part of this article covers the constituencies wholly or predominantly within the area of the historic county. The second part refers to constituencies mostly in another historic county, which included some territory from the historic county of Cornwall (if any). The summaries section only refers to the constituencies included in the first section of the constituency list.


List of constituencies

The constituencies which existed in 1707 were those previously represented in the
Parliament of England The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised t ...
. Key to abbreviations:- * (Type) BC Borough constituency, CC County constituency.


Constituencies wholly or predominantly in the historic county


Constituencies mostly in another historic county


Periods constituencies represented


Summaries


Summary of Constituencies by Type and Period

Note: Dates of representation prior to 1509 are provisional.


Summary of members of parliament by Type and Period


See also

* Members of Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall * Wikipedia:Index of article on UK Parliament constituencies in England * Wikipedia:Index of articles on UK Parliament constituencies in England N-Z *
Parliamentary representation by historic counties The Parliamentary representation by historic counties is summarised in this article, with links to the articles about the representation of each of the historic counties in the House of Commons of the Parliaments of England (to 1707), Great Brita ...
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First Protectorate Parliament The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the Ho ...
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Unreformed House of Commons "Unreformed House of Commons" is a name given to the House of Commons of Great Britain and (after 1800 the House of Commons of the United Kingdom) before it was reformed by the Reform Act 1832, the Irish Reform Act 1832, and the Scottish Reform ...
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Politics of Cornwall Cornwall is administered as a Counties of England, county of South West England whose politics are influenced by a number of issues that make it distinct from the general political scene in the wider United Kingdom, and the political trends of ...
* Cornish rotten boroughs *
Mebyon Kernow Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall (, MK; Cornish for ''Sons of Cornwall'') is a Cornish nationalist, centre-left political party in Cornwall, in southwestern Britain. It currently has five elected councillors on Cornwall Council, and s ...
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Constitutional status of Cornwall The constitutional status of Cornwall has been a matter of debate and dispute. In modern times, Cornwall is an administrative county of England. In ethnic and cultural terms, until around 1700, Cornwall and its inhabitants were regarded as a ...


Further reading

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Edwin Jaggard Edwin K. G. "Ed" Jaggard (born 1942) is an honorary professor at the School of Arts and Humanities in the Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, who specialised in the study of local history, in the study of surf lifesaving in Australia and i ...
''Cornwall politics in the age of reform 1790–1855'', Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, (1999),


References

* ''Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972) * ''British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium'', by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984) * ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977) * ''The House of Commons 1509–1558'', by S.T. Bindoff (Secker & Warburg 1982) * ''The House of Commons 1558–1603'', by P.W. Hasler (HMSO 1981) * ''The House of Commons 1660–1690'', by Basil Duke Henning (Secker & Warburg 1983) * ''The House of Commons 1715–1754'', by Romney Sedgwick (HMSO 1970) * ''The House of Commons 1754–1790'', by Sir
Lewis Namier Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (; 27 June 1888 – 19 August 1960) was a British historian of Polish-Jewish background. His best-known works were ''The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III'' (1929), ''England in the Age of the Ameri ...
and John Brooke (HMSO 1964) * ''The House of Commons 1790–1820'', by R.G. Thorne (Secker & Warburg 1986) * ''The Parliaments of England'' by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973) ''out of copyright'' {{Cornwall Cornwall, Historic county of Parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall (historic) Politics of Cornwall