County Gloucestershire Number of members 2 | Created from Gloucestershire Replaced by Gloucestershire | |
East Gloucestershire, formally the Eastern division of Gloucestershire and often referred to as Gloucestershire Eastern, was a parliamentary constituency in Gloucestershire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) using the bloc vote system.
Contents
- Boundaries
- Elections off the 1830s
- Election of 5 July 1841
- Election of 27 February 1847
- Election of 1852
- By election of 9 January 1854
- By election of 19 December 1854
- Election of 1857
- Election of 1859
- By election of 12 July 1864
- Election of 1865
- By election of 11 March 1872
- Election of 1874
- Election of 1880
- References
The constituency was created when the Great Reform Act split Gloucestershire into eastern and western divisions, with effect from the 1832 general election.
Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, East Gloucestershire was abolished from the 1885 election, when the former eastern and western divisions were replaced by five new single-seat county constituencies: Cirencester, Forest of Dean, Stroud, Tewkesbury, and Thornbury.
Boundaries
The Hundreds of Crowthorne and Minety, Brightwell's Barrow, Bradley, Rapsgate, Bisley, Longtree, Whitstone, Kiftsgate, Westminster, Deerhurst, Slaughter, Cheltenham, Cleeve, Tibaldston, Tewkesbury, and Dudstone and King's Barton, and also the City and County of Gloucester and the Borough of Cirencester.
The constituency was the eastern division of the historic county of Gloucestershire, in South West England.
The place of election was at Gloucester. This was where the hustings were situated and electors voted by spoken declaration in public, before the secret ballot was introduced in 1872.
The qualification to vote in county elections, in the period when this constituency operated, was to be a 40 shilling freeholder.
The parliamentary borough constituencies of Cheltenham, Cirencester, Gloucester, Stroud, and Tewkesbury were all located in East Gloucestershire. Qualified freeholders from those boroughs could vote in the county division. Bristol was a "county of itself", so its freeholders qualified to vote in the borough, not in any county division.
Elections off the 1830s
Election of 10 January 1835