- Source: Cricklade (UK Parliament constituency)
Cricklade was a parliamentary constituency named after the town of Cricklade in Wiltshire.
From 1295 until the general election of 1885, Cricklade was a parliamentary borough, returning two members of parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, previously to the House of Commons of England and House of Commons of Great Britain.
Initially this consisted of only the town of Cricklade, but from 1782 the vote was extended to the surrounding countryside as a punishment for the borough's corruption. The extended area came to include the village of Swindon, which later grew into a large town with the coming of the railways in the 19th century.
From the 1885 general election the borough was abolished, but the name was transferred to a county division of Wiltshire covering much the same area, and electing a single MP. This constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election: Cricklade joined the Chippenham constituency and a new Swindon constituency was created.
Boundaries
1832–1885: The hundreds of Highworth, Cricklade, Staple, Kingsbridge and Malmesbury, except the parliamentary borough of Malmesbury.
1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Cricklade and Swindon.
Members of Parliament
= 1295-1640
=Constituency created 1295
= 1640-1885
== 1885-1918
=Elections
= Elections in the 1830s
=Gordon was appointed a Commissioner for the Affairs of India, causing a by-election.
= Elections in the 1840s
== Elections in the 1850s
== Elections in the 1860s
== Elections in the 1870s
== Elections in the 1880s
=Costelloe contested previous general election as Conservative
= Elections in the 1890s
== Elections in the 1900s
== Elections in the 1910s
=General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
Liberal: Richard Cornthwaite Lambert
Unionist:
Notes
References
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) [2]
F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
Edward Porritt and Annie G Porritt, The Unreformed House of Commons (Cambridge University Press, 1903)
Frederic A Youngs, jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Cricklade (UK Parliament constituency)
- Cricklade
- North Wiltshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency)
- Swindon North (UK Parliament constituency)
- South Cotswolds (UK Parliament constituency)
- William Plomer (disambiguation)
- William Badger (disambiguation)
- List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies (1801–1832)
- History of local government in Swindon
