County Staffordshire Number of members 2 | Created from South Staffordshire Replaced by South Staffordshire | |
East Staffordshire or Staffordshire East (formally the Eastern division of Staffordshire) was a county constituency in the county of Staffordshire. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.
History
The constituency was first created by the Second Reform Act for the 1868 general election, and abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election.
References
East Staffordshire (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA