Mid Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK constituency Mid Somerset was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Somerset, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.
It was created for the 1868 general election,[1] and abolished for the 1885 general election, when Somerset was divided into several new single-member constituencies: Bridgwater, Frome, East Somerset, North Somerset, South Somerset, Wellington and Wells.
Members of Parliament
| Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1868 | rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Richard Paget | Conservative | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Ralph Neville-Grenville[2] | Conservative |
| 1878 by-election | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | William Gore-Langton[3][2] | Conservative | |||
| 1885 by-election | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | John Wingfield Digby[2] | Conservative | |||
| 1885 | constituency abolished | |||||
Election results
Elections in the 1860s
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Francis Tagart[5] | 2,151 | 18.7 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Edward Augustus Freeman[6] | 2,018 | 17.6 | ||
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Elections in the 1870s
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Elections in the 1880s
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References
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