South Nottinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Nottinghamshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Nottinghamshire
1832–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Rushcliffe, Newark
Created from	Nottinghamshire

South Nottinghamshire, formally the "Southern Division of Nottinghamshire" was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election.

History

The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, when the two-seat Nottinghamshire constituency was replaced by the Northern and Southern divisions, each of which elected two MPs.

Both divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when they were replaced by four new single-seat constituencies: Bassetlaw, Mansfield, Newark and Rushcliffe.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		The Earl of Lincoln	Tory		Evelyn Denison	Whig
1834			Conservative
1837					Lancelot Rolleston	Conservative
1846 by-election		Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard	Conservative
1849 by-election					Robert Bromley	Conservative
1851 by-election					William Hodgson Barrow	Conservative
1852		Viscount Newark	Conservative
1860 by-election		Lord Stanhope	Conservative
1866 by-election		Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard	Conservative
1874					George Storer	Conservative
1885	Redistribution of Seats Act: constituency abolished

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 440. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.