- Source: Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)
Cumberland is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. It was divided between the constituencies of Cumberland East and Cumberland West in 1832.
Mike Jenkinson, Conservative, served as the local MP in Workington from 2019 until the dissolution of parliament in 2024.
Members of Parliament
Constituency created 1290
= MPs 1290–1640
== MPs 1640–1832
=Constituency abolished (1832)
Notes
Elections
The county franchise, from 1430, was held by the adult male owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more. Each elector had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings, which took place in the town of Cockermouth. The expense and difficulty of voting at only one location in the county, together with the lack of a secret ballot contributed to the corruption and intimidation of electors, which was widespread in the unreformed British political system.
The expense, to candidates, of contested elections encouraged the leading families of the county to agree on the candidates to be returned unopposed whenever possible. Contested county elections were therefore unusual.
Election results
Election results taken from the History of Parliament Trust series.
= Elections in the 18th century
=Note: James Lowther succeeded his brother as baronet in 1731
Death of Pennington
incomplete
On petition, Fletcher returned in place of Lowther, 16 December 1768
incomplete
See also
List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
Unreformed House of Commons
References
D. Brunton & D. H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by F. W. S. Craig – Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
House of Commons records at British History Online [1]
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)
- East Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)
- West Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)
- North Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)
- Penrith and The Border (UK Parliament constituency)
- Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency)
- Battersea (UK Parliament constituency)
- Penrith and Cockermouth (UK Parliament constituency)
- Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)
- Penrith and Solway (UK Parliament constituency)
