New Shoreham | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Sussex (now West Sussex) |
Major settlements | Shoreham-by-Sea |
1295–1885 | |
Seats | Two |
Replaced by | Lewes |
New Shoreham, sometimes simply called Shoreham, was a parliamentary borough centred on the town of Shoreham-by-Sea in what is now West Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England from 1295 to 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and finally to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until it was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, with effect from the 1885 general election.
A modern constituency called Shoreham existed from 1974 to 1997.