North Riding of Yorkshire | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() North Riding of Yorkshire, within Yorkshire, 1832โ1868 ![]() Location of Yorkshire within England | |
County | North Riding of Yorkshire |
1832โ1885 | |
Seats | Two |
Created from | Yorkshire |
Replaced by | Cleveland, Richmond, Thirsk & Malton and Whitby |
North Riding of Yorkshire was the constituency of the North Riding of Yorkshire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832, when the four-seat Yorkshire constituency was divided in three for the 1832 general election. It was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and replaced for the 1885 general election by the new single-member constituencies of Cleveland, Richmond, Thirsk & Malton and Whitby, most its remaining small boroughs seeing disenfranchisement in 1868 or in 1885.