East Riding of Yorkshire | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | East Riding of Yorkshire |
1832–1885 | |
Seats | Two |
Created from | Yorkshire |
Replaced by | Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire |
The East Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency covering the East Riding of Yorkshire, omitting Beverley residents save a small minority of Beverley residents who also qualified on property grounds to vote in the county seat (mainly business-owning forty shilling freeholders). It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. A brief earlier guise of the seat covered the changed franchise of the First Protectorate Parliament and Second Protectorate Parliament during a fraction of the twenty years of England and Wales (Scotland and Ireland) existed as a republic.