Brighton | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | 1832โ1888: Sussex 1888โ1950: East Sussex |
Major settlements | Brighton |
1832โ1950 | |
Seats | Two |
Created from | Sussex |
Replaced by | Brighton Kemptown, Brighton Pavilion and Hove |
Brighton was a parliamentary constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until it was divided into single-member seats from the 1950 United Kingdom general election. Covering the seaside towns of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, it elected two Members of Parliament (MP) by the block vote system of election.