Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Template:More footnotes Template:Infobox UK constituency Buckinghamshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885.

Its most prominent member was Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

Boundaries and boundary changes

This county constituency consisted of the historic county of Buckinghamshire, in south-eastern England to the north-west of the modern Greater London region. Its southern boundary was the River Thames. See History of Buckinghamshire for maps of the historic county and details about it.

The county returned two knights of the shire until 1832 and three 1832–1885. The place of election for the county was at the county town of Aylesbury. Aylesbury replaced Buckingham as the county town in 1529.

The county, up to 1885, also contained the borough constituencies of Amersham (originally enfranchised with 2 seats from 1300, revived 1625, disenfranchised 1832), Aylesbury (originally enfranchised with 2 seats from 1302, revived 1554), Buckingham (2 seats from 1529, 1 seat from 1868), Chipping Wycombe (2 seats from 1300, 1 seat from 1868), Great Marlow (2 seats 1625–1868, 1 seat from 1868) and Wendover (2 seats 1625–1832, disenfranchised 1832).

In 1885 the county was split into three single-member county divisions. These were Aylesbury, Buckingham and Wycombe.

Aylesbury, Buckingham, Chipping Wycombe and Great Marlow were disenfranchised as borough constituencies. There were no remaining Parliamentary boroughs in the county from 1885.

Members of Parliament

Constituency created (1265): See Simon de Montfort's Parliament for further details. Knights of the shire are known to have been summoned to most Parliaments from 1290 (19th Parliament of King Edward I of England) and to every one from 1320 (19th Parliament of King Edward II of England).

Knights of the shire 1660–1832

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1656	William Hampden
		April 1660	Thomas Tyrrell		Sir William Bowyer, 1st Bt.
		August 1660	William Tyringham
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="6"|		1679	Hon. Thomas Wharton	Whig	John Hampden
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1681	Richard Hampden			Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1685	Viscount Brackley			Whig
	1689	Sir Thomas Lee, 1st Bt.
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1690	Richard Hampden			Whig
	1695	Sir Richard Atkins, 2nd Bt.
	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"|		February 1696	The Viscount Newhaven		Tory
	December 1696	Henry Neale
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"|	1698	Goodwin Wharton	Whig
	1701			Robert Dormer
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"|	1702			The Viscount Newhaven	Tory
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"|	1704	Sir Richard Temple, 4th Bt.	Whig
	1705			Robert Dormer
	1706			William Egerton
		1708	Sir Edmund Denton, 1st Bt.		Richard Hampden
	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"|	1710			The Viscount Fermanagh	Tory
	1713	John Fleetwood
				1715	Richard Hampden
		1722	Montague Garrard Drake		Sir Thomas Lee, 3rd Bt.
		1727	Sir William Stanhope		Richard Hampden (died 1728)
		1729			Sir Thomas Lee, 3rd Bt.
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"|		1741	Richard Grenville	Whig	Richard Lowndes
		1747	Sir William Stanhope
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"|		1768	The Earl Verney	Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1774	George Grenville			Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1779	Thomas Grenville			Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"|	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"|	1784	William Grenville	Tory	Sir John Aubrey, 6th Bt.	Tory
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"|	June 1790	The Earl Verney			Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"|	December 1790		James Grenville	Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"|	1791	Marquess of Titchfield			Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"|	1797		Earl Temple	Tory
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"|	1810	William Selby Lowndes			Whig
	1813		Thomas Grenville
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"|	1818		Marquess of Chandos	Tory
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1820	Robert Smith			Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1831	John Smith			Whig
		1832	Third member added

Knights of the shire 1832–1885

Election				First member	First party	Second member	Second party	Third member	Third party
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color"|	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	1832	Richard Temple-Grenville	Tory	John Smith	Whig	Sir George Dashwood, 5th Bt.	Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"|	1834	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="4"|	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |		1835		Sir William Young, 4th Bt	Conservative	James Backwell Praed	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"|	1837 by-election		George Simon Harcourt				Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="9"|	1839 by-election	Caledon Du Pré		Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"|	1841		Charles Scott-Murray				Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"|	1842 by-election				Hon. William FitzMaurice	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1845 by-election		Christopher Tower				Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="6" |		1847		Hon. Charles Cavendish	Whig	Benjamin Disraeli	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1857		William Cavendish		Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1859				Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1863 by-election		Robert Harvey		Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"|	1868		Nathaniel Lambert		Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"|	1874	Sir Robert Harvey, Bt		Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"|	1876 by-election					Hon. Thomas Fremantle	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1880		Rupert Carington		Liberal
			1885	Constituency divided. See Aylesbury, Buckingham and Wycombe

Elections

In multi-member elections the bloc voting system was used. Voters could cast a vote for one or two (or three in three-member elections 1832–1868) candidates, as they chose. The leading candidates with the largest number of votes were elected. In 1868 the limited vote was introduced, which restricted an individual elector to using one or two votes, in elections to fill three seats.

In by-elections, to fill a single seat, the first past the post system applied.

After 1832, when registration of voters was introduced, a turnout figure is given for contested elections. In three-member elections, when the exact number of participating voters is unknown, this is calculated by dividing the number of votes by three (to 1868) and two thereafter. To the extent that electors did not use all their votes this will be an underestimate of turnout.

Where a party had more than one candidate in one or both of a pair of successive elections change is calculated for each individual candidate, otherwise change is based on the party vote.

Candidates for whom no party has been identified are classified as Non Partisan. The candidate might have been associated with a party or faction in Parliament or consider himself to belong to a particular political tradition. Political parties before the 19th century were not as cohesive or organised as they later became. Contemporary commentators (even the reputed leaders of parties or factions) in the 18th century did not necessarily agree who the party supporters were. The traditional parties, which had arisen in the late 17th century, became increasingly irrelevant to politics in the 18th century (particularly after 1760), although for some contests in some constituencies party labels were still used. It was only towards the end of the century that party labels began to acquire some meaning again, although this process was by no means complete for several more generations.'

Sources: The results for elections 1660-1790 were taken from the History of Parliament Trust publications. The results are based on Stooks Smith from 1790 until the 1832 United Kingdom general election and Craig from 1832. Where Stooks Smith gives additional information after 1832 this is indicated in a note.

Elections in the 1660-70s

General election 11 April 1660: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	William Bowyer	Unopposed	N/A
	Non Partisan	Thomas Tyrrell	Unopposed	N/A

• Appointment of Tyrrell as a Judge

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By-election 22 August 1660: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	William Tyringham	Unopposed	N/A

General election 1661: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	William Bowyer	1,499	27.58
	Non Partisan	William Tyringham	1,379	25.37
	Non Partisan	Richard Hampden	1,315	24.20
	Non Partisan	R. Winwood	1,242	22.85

General election 5 February 1679: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	John Hampden	Unopposed	N/A
		Thomas Wharton	Unopposed	N/A

Elections in the 1680-90s

General election 1680: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	John Hampden	Unopposed	N/A
		Thomas Wharton	Unopposed	N/A

General election 2 February 1681: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Richard Hampden	Unopposed	N/A
		Thomas Wharton	Unopposed	N/A

General election 10 April 1685: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Egerton	2,430	44.66
		Thomas Wharton	1,804	33.16
	Non Partisan	T. Hackett	1,207	22.18

General election 10 January 1689: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Thomas Lee	Unopposed	N/A
		Thomas Wharton	Unopposed	N/A

General election 19 February 1690: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Richard Hampden	Unopposed	N/A
		Thomas Wharton	Unopposed	N/A

General election 30 October 1695: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Richard Atkins	Unopposed	N/A
		Thomas Wharton	Unopposed	N/A

• Succession of Wharton as 5th Baron Wharton

By-election 24 February 1696: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Cheyne	Unopposed	N/A
	gain from		Swing	N/A

• Note (February 1696): The William Cheyne succeeded his father as the 2nd Viscount Newhaven, a Scottish peerage, in 1698.
• Death of Atkins

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By-election 31 December 1696: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Henry Neale	Unopposed	N/A

General election 27 August 1698: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Cheyne	Unopposed	N/A
		Goodwin Wharton	Unopposed	N/A

Elections in the 1700-10s

General election February 1701: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Cheyne	Unopposed	N/A
		Goodwin Wharton	Unopposed	N/A

General election 10 December 1701: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Robert Dormer	Unopposed	N/A
		Goodwin Wharton	Unopposed	N/A

General election 22 July 1702: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Cheyne	Unopposed	N/A
		Goodwin Wharton	Unopposed	N/A

• Death of Wharton

By-election 8 November 1704: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Richard Temple	Unopposed	N/A
	gain from		Swing	N/A

General election 24 May 1705: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Robert Dormer	Unopposed	N/A
		Richard Temple	Unopposed	N/A

• Appointment of Dormer as a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas

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By-election 27 February 1706: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	William Egerton	Unopposed	N/A

General election 18 May 1708: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Edmund Denton	Unopposed	N/A
	Non Partisan	Richard Hampden	Unopposed	N/A

• Note (1708): Possible classification - Hampden (W)

General election 4 October 1710: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Edmund Denton	Unopposed	N/A
		John Verney	Unopposed	N/A

General election 2 September 1713: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Verney	Unopposed	N/A
	Non Partisan	John Fleetwood	Unopposed	N/A

• Note (1713): Possible classification - Fleetwood (T)

General election 2 February 1715: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	John Fleetwood	Unopposed	N/A
	Non Partisan	Richard Hampden	Unopposed	N/A

• Note (1715): Possible classification - Fleetwood (T), Hampden (W)
• Appointment of Hampden as a Teller of the Exchequer

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By-election 4 July 1716: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Richard Hampden	Unopposed	N/A

• Note (1716): Possible classification - Hampden (W)
• Appointment of Hampden as Treasurer of the Navy

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By-election 9 April 1717: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Richard Hampden	Unopposed	N/A

• Note (1717): Possible classification - Hampden (W)

Elections in the 1720-30s

General election 4 April 1722: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Montague Garrard Drake	2,441	37.21
	Non Partisan	Thomas Lee	2,415	36.81
	Non Partisan	Fleetwood Dormer	1,704	25.98

• Note (1722): Possible classification - Drake (T), Lee & Dormer (W)

General election 16 August 1727: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Hon. William Stanhope	2,310	39.39
	Non Partisan	Richard Hampden	1,903	32.45
	Non Partisan	William Gore	1,651	28.16

• Note (1727): Possible classification - Stanhope & Hampden (W), Gore (T)
• Death of Hampden

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By-election 29 January 1729: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Thomas Lee	Unopposed	N/A

• Note (1729): Possible classification - Lee (W)

General election 1734: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	William Stanhope	2,414	43.96
	Non Partisan	Thomas Lee	1,763	32.11
	Non Partisan	Richard Lowndes	1,314	23.93

• Note (1734): Possible classification - Stanhope & Lee (W), Lowndes (T)

Elections in the 1740-50s

General election 6 May 1741: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Richard Grenville	Unopposed	N/A
	Non Partisan	Richard Lowndes	Unopposed	N/A

• Note (1741): Possible classification - Lowndes (T)

General election 6 July 1747: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Richard Lowndes	Unopposed	N/A
	Non Partisan	Hon. William Stanhope	Unopposed	N/A

• Note (1747): Possible classification - Lowndes (T), Stanhope (W)

General election 17 April 1754: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Richard Lowndes	Unopposed	N/A
	Non Partisan	William Stanhope	Unopposed	N/A

• Note (1754): Possible classification - Lowndes (T), Stanhope (W)

Elections in the 1760-70s

General election 4 April 1761: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Richard Lowndes	Unopposed	N/A
	Non Partisan	Hon. William Stanhope	Unopposed	N/A

• Note (1761): Possible classification - Lowndes (T), Stanhope (W)

General election 28 March 1768: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Richard Lowndes	Unopposed	N/A
		Ralph Verney	Unopposed	N/A

• Note (1768): Possible classification - Lowndes (T)

General election 19 October 1774: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		George Grenville	Unopposed	N/A
		Ralph Verney	Unopposed	N/A

• Succession of Grenville as 3rd Earl Temple

By-election 25 October 1779: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Thomas Grenville	Unopposed	N/A
	hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1780-90s

General election 13 September 1780: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Thomas Grenville	Unopposed	N/A
		Ralph Verney	Unopposed	N/A

General election 21 April 1784: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Grenville	2,261	39.55
	Non Partisan	John Aubrey	1,740	30.44
		Ralph Verney	1,716	30.02

• Note (1784): Poll 13 days. 3,548 voted. Possible classification for Aubrey (T). (Source: Stooks Smith)
• An alternative interpretation is that Aubrey was a supporter of Pitt (who called himself a Whig, although retrospectively usually classified as a Tory). Aubrey had very clearly identified himself with the opposition to the Fox-North coalition. (Source: Davis)
• Appointment of Grenville as Secretary of State for the Home Department

By-election 19 June 1789: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Grenville	Unopposed	N/A
	hold		Swing	N/A

General election 22 June 1790: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Bentinck	Unopposed	N/A
		Ralph Verney	Unopposed	N/A

• Death of Verney

By-election 27 December 1790: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	James Grenville	Unopposed	N/A
	gain from		Swing	N/A

General election 1 June 1796: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	James Grenville	Unopposed	N/A
		William Bentinck	Unopposed	N/A

• Resignation of Grenville

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By-election 30 June 1797: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Earl Temple	Unopposed	N/A

Elections in the 1800-10s

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General election July 1802: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Bentinck	Template:Replace	N/A

• Note (1802): Identifying a definitive party label for Temple and Titchfield is difficult. Stooks Smith considered Temple a Tory and Titchfield a Whig, but he may not be reliable for Bucks candidates allegiances before about 1818. Both knights of the shire were members of traditional Whig families and were closely related to one or more Whig Prime Ministers. Temple was a member of the Grenville family, which had supported their cousin William Pitt the Younger during his first premiership 1783-1801. Former Bucks MP (and uncle of Earl Temple) William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville had become closer to Charles James Fox and his faction of opposition Whigs since leaving office with Pitt in 1801. This may have affected the political position of his relatives like Earl Temple. Titchfield was the son of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland who had been the Whig Prime Minister of the Fox-North Coalition, in office before Pitt. However Portland had split his Whig faction and broken with the pre-eminent opposition Whig leader in the House of Commons, Charles James Fox, over the attitude to be taken to the French Revolution. Portland joined Pitt's cabinet in 1794. Pitt called himself a Whig, although his followers came from both traditional Whig and Tory families. Titchfield, when he was first elected for the county in 1791, had been brought forward as a candidate by the Buckinghamshire Independent Club. This club had supported the late Earl Verney, and were definitely a Whig organisation. At that time Titchfield's father was the leader of the largest Whig faction in opposition to Pitt's Ministry. However Davis does imply that Titchfield himself was a Tory, which is how he has been classified in this article. In the absence of a clear indication of whether Temple considered himself a Whig or Tory at this stage of his career, he has been classified as a Non Partisan member for this article.

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General election 1806: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Bentinck	Template:Replace	N/A

• Note (1806): As for 1802 save that following Pitt's death William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, who had not joined Pitt's second Ministry in 1804, become Prime Minister of the Ministry of All the Talents in 1806. This may have led the Grenvilles, in retrospect, to continue to be regarded as Whig when Pitt and other groups of his supporters came to be called Tory after Pitt's death.

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General election 11 May 1807: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Bentinck	Template:Replace	N/A

• Note (1807): As before save that in 1807 the Duke of Portland had formed a Tory administration (although he claimed to be the Whig Prime Minister of a Tory Ministry). In retrospect Portland has been regarded as a Tory at the time of his second Ministry.
• Succession of Titchfield as 4th Duke of Portland

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By-election 3 January 1810: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%

• Note (1810): Possible party for Selby Lowndes is Whig (source: Stooks Smith), but given his conservative religious views and support for Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth's anti-dissenter policy it may be best to regard him as a member of a traditional Whig family who was moving towards being a nineteenth century Tory. He has been classified as Non Partisan for the purpose of this article.

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General election 1812: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%

• Succession of Temple as 2nd Marquess of Buckingham

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By-election 6 March 1813: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%

• Note (1813): Grenville was the uncle of the 2nd Marquess of Buckingham (formerly Earl Temple MP). The same factors noted for Temple lead to Thomas Grenville being classified as Non Partisan for the purpose of this article. Stooks Smith however classifies him as Tory and he was of the same generation as his brother William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville classified by Stooks Smith as a Tory and in this article as a Whig.

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General election 22 June 1818: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Earl Temple	Template:Replace	N/A

Elections in the 1820-30s

General election 13 March 1820: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Robert Smith	Template:Replace	N/A
		Richard Temple-Grenville	Template:Replace	N/A

• From 1822 Temple was known by the courtesy title of Marquess of Chandos, as his father was created 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

General election 1826: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Richard Temple-Grenville	Template:Replace	N/A
		Robert Smith	Template:Replace	N/A

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General election 1830: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
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General election 9 May 1831: Buckinghamshire (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
		Richard Temple-Grenville		42.2
		John Smith (Buckinghamshire MP)		34.0
		Pascoe Grenfell		23.8
Turnout			2,593	c. 64.8
Majority			310	8.2
	hold
Majority			383	10.2
	hold

• Note (1831): Chandos 1,287 plumpers, 287 split with Smith, 18 split with Grenfell; Smith 191 plumpers, 806 split with Grenfell; Grenfell 2 plumpers. Total voters 2,593. (Source: Davis). Poll: 4 days.

General election 17 December 1832: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Richard Temple-Grenville	Template:Replace	33.8
		John Smith (Buckinghamshire MP)	Template:Replace	28.5
		George Dashwood	Template:Replace	19.5
		Charles Scott-Murray	1,536	18.2
Turnout			4,189	78.9
Registered electors			5,306
Majority			454	5.3
	hold		Swing	+8.8
Majority			866	10.3
	hold		Swing	−5.2
	win (new seat)

General election 10 January 1835: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Richard Temple-Grenville	Template:Replace	28.9
		William Young	Template:Replace	22.4
		James Backwell Praed	Template:Replace	20.4
		George Dashwood	1,672	15.6
		John Lee	1,365	12.8
Majority			507	4.8
Turnout			3,946	73.5
Registered electors			5,371
	hold		Swing	+9.1
	gain from		Swing	+5.8
	gain from		Swing	+4.8

• Death of Praed

By-election, 20 February 1837: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		George Simon Harcourt	Template:Replace	69.5
		George Dashwood	982	30.5
Majority			1,251	39.0
Turnout			3,215	55.8
Registered electors			5,760
	hold		Swing	−2.2

General election 1837: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Richard Temple-Grenville	Template:Replace	28.8
		George Simon Harcourt	Template:Replace	26.0
		William Young	Template:Replace	25.3
		George Robert Smith	2,071	19.9
Majority			562	5.4
Turnout			4,464	77.5
Registered electors			5,760
	hold		Swing	+1.4
	hold		Swing	+3.2
	hold		Swing	+3.9

• Succession of Chandos as 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

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By-election, 18 February 1839: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	hold

Elections in the 1840-50s

General election 5 July 1841: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Young	Template:Replace	29.8
		Caledon Du Pré	Template:Replace	29.8
		Charles Scott-Murray	Template:Replace	29.5
		John Lee	495	5.7
		Henry Morgan Vane	450	5.2
Majority			2,052	23.7
Turnout			3,071	49.9
Registered electors			6,156
	hold		Swing	+4.6
	hold		Swing	+2.9
	hold		Swing	+4.2

• Death of Young

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By-election, 15 July 1842: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	hold

• Resignation of Scott-Murray by accepting the office of Steward of the Manor of Hempholme

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By-election, 21 February 1845: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	hold

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General election 4 August 1847: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Registered electors			5,798
	gain from
	hold
	hold

• Appointment of Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer

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By-election 12 March 1852: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	hold

General election 1852: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Caledon Du Pré	Template:Replace	33.2
		Benjamin Disraeli	Template:Replace	32.7
		Charles Cavendish	Template:Replace	23.3
		John Lee	656	10.9
Majority			570	9.4
Turnout			3,016 (est)	53.3 (est)
Registered electors			5,659
	hold		Swing	N/A
	hold		Swing	N/A
	hold		Swing	N/A

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General election 1857: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Registered electors			5,353
	hold
	hold
	hold

• Creation of Cavendish as 1st Baron Chesham

By-election 28 December 1857: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Cavendish	Template:Replace	52.7
		Charles Baillie-Hamilton	1,454	47.3
Majority			163	5.4
Turnout			3,071	57.4
Registered electors			5,353
	hold		Swing	N/A

• Appointment of Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer

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By-election 8 March 1858: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	hold

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General election 1859: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Registered electors			5,343
	hold
	hold
	hold

Elections in the 1860-80s

• Succession of Cavendish as 2nd Baron Chesham

By-election 29 December 1863: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Robert Harvey	Template:Replace	88.1
		John Lee	313	11.9
Majority			1,998	76.2
Turnout			2,624	45.0
Registered electors			5,836
	gain from		Swing	N/A

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General election 1865: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Registered electors			6,126
	hold
	hold
	gain from

• Appointment of Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer

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By-election 13 July 1866: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	hold

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General election 19 November 1868: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Registered electors			7,894
	hold
	hold
	hold

General election 14 February 1874: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Benjamin Disraeli	Template:Replace	38.6
		Robert Harvey	Template:Replace	37.3
		Nathaniel Lambert	Template:Replace	22.1
		William Talley	151	1.9
Turnout			4,822 (est)	65.4 (est)
Registered electors			7,368
	hold		Swing	N/A
	hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			1,182	15.2
	hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			1,569	20.2

• Talley was a Slough solicitor who contested the seat as a "Progressive Conservative". (Source: Davis)
• Appointment of Disraeli as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury

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By-election 17 March 1874: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	hold

• Creation of Disraeli as 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

By-election 22 September 1876: Buckinghamshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Thomas Fremantle	Template:Replace	51.8
		Rupert Carington	2,539	48.2
Majority			186	3.5
Turnout			5,264	72.4
Registered electors			7,273
	hold		Swing	−25.1

General election 10 April 1880: Buckinghamshire (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Robert Harvey	Template:Replace	31.7
		Thomas Fremantle	Template:Replace	29.9
		Rupert Carington	Template:Replace	29.9
		Frederick Charsley	796	8.5
Turnout			5,746 (est)	70.8 (est)
Registered electors			8,114
	hold		Swing	−4.8
	hold		Swing	−6.3
Majority			0	0.0
	hold		Swing	+11.1
Majority			1,994	21.4

• Constituency divided in the 1885 redistribution

See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons
• List of parliaments of England

References

• The History and Antiquities of Buckinghamshire, Vol. 1, by George Lipscomb (1847)
• The House of Commons 1754-1790, by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964)
• Political Change and Continuity 1760-1885: A Buckinghamshire Study, by Richard W. Davis (David & Charles 1972)
• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F. W. S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)