South Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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South Lincolnshire, formally called the Southern Division of Lincolnshire or Parts of Kesteven and Holland, was a
county constituency In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons. Within the United Kingdom there are five bodies with members elected by electoral districts called "constituenc ...
in
Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
. It returned two
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(MPs) to the
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of the
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, elected by the bloc vote electoral system.


History

The constituency was created by the
Reform Act 1832 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, Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced major chan ...
for the 1832 general election. It was abolished by the
Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict., c. 23) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons, introducing the concept of equal ...
for the 1885 general election.


Boundaries

1832–1868: The Parts of Kesteven and Holland. 1868–1885: The Wapentakes, Hundreds, or Sokes of Loveden, Flaxwell, Aswardburn, Winnibriggs and Threo, Aveland, Beltisloe, Ness, Grantham Soke, Skirbeck, Kirton and Holland Elloe.


Members of Parliament


Election results


Elections in the 1830s


Elections in the 1840s


Elections in the 1850s

Trollope was appointed
President of the Poor Law Board The Poor Law Board was established in the United Kingdom in 1847 as a successor body to the Poor Law Commission overseeing the administration of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. The new body was headed by a President, and with the Lord President of ...
, requiring a by-election.


Elections in the 1860s

Trollope was elevated to the peerage, becoming Lord Kesteven, causing a by-election.


Elections in the 1870s


Elections in the 1880s

Welby-Gregory resigned, causing a by-election.


See also

*
Stamford (UK Parliament list of constituencies) Stamford was a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency in the county of Lincolnshire of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons for the Parliament of England to 1706 then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to ...


References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lincolnshire South Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1832 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1885