Harwich was a parliamentary constituency

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In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

 represented in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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. Until its abolition for the 2010 general election it elected one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

From 1997 to 2010 the Harwich constituency included the towns of Clacton-on-Sea

Clacton-on-Sea

Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town on the Tendring peninsula, in Essex, England and was founded in 1871. It is a seaside resort that attracted many tourists in the summer months between the 1950s and 1970s, but which like many other British sea-side resorts went into decline as a holiday...

, Holland-on-Sea

Holland-on-Sea

Holland-on-Sea is a seaside town in east Essex in the United Kingdom. Located south of the little village of Great Holland and directly north of Clacton-on-Sea, it has bus links to Walton-on-the-Naze and Clacton-on-Sea. It is a short coastal walk down the coastline to Clacton.There are four...

, Frinton-on-Sea

Frinton-on-Sea

Frinton-on-Sea is a small seaside town in the Tendring District of Essex, England. It is part of the Parish of Frinton and Walton.-History:...

, Walton-on-the-Naze

Walton-on-the-Naze

Walton-on-the-Naze is a small town in Essex, England, on the North Sea coast in the Tendring district. It is north of Clacton and south of the port of Harwich. It abuts Frinton-on-Sea to the south, and is part of the parish of Frinton and Walton. It is a resort town, with a permanent population of...

 and Harwich

Harwich

Harwich is a town in Essex, England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east. It is in the Tendring district. Nearby places include Felixstowe to the northeast, Ipswich to the northwest, Colchester to the southwest and Clacton-on-Sea to the south...

 itself. It also included the villages of Beaumont-cum-Moze

Beaumont-cum-Moze

Beaumont-cum-Moze is a civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 352. The parish includes Beaumont and Moze Cross.Beaumont Cut is a derelict canal in the parish....

, Great Holland

Great Holland

Great Holland is a village in Essex, located to the north-east of Holland-on-Sea, and west of Frinton-on-sea. The village is served by a bus service to Clacton-on-Sea to the south and Kirby Cross, to the north. The village is served by two churches, a Methodist church and the parish church, 'All...

, Great Oakley

Great Oakley, Essex

Great Oakley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex. It is a long, narrow parish lying on the top of a low ridge south of Ramsey Creek which drains northeast towards Harwich. The parish extends south to Oakley Creek, a branch of Hamford Water, where stood Great Oakley...

, Jaywick

Jaywick

Jaywick is a small seaside village near Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex on the North Sea coast of England. It was originally intended as a holiday resort for Londoners. Many of the houses were poorly constructed and were only intended for short-term holiday use. As time has passed, more and more people...

, Kirby Cross

Kirby Cross

Kirby Cross is a village in Tendring district, Essex, England. It is situated near to Kirby-le-Soken and Frinton-on-Sea. Historically, Kirby Cross was a hamlet within the parish of Kirby-le-Soken, but since 1934 both settlements have been part of Frinton and Walton civil parish.It is the location...

, Kirby-le-Soken

Kirby-le-Soken

Kirby-le-Soken is a small village in the Tendring District of North East Essex, England, in an agricultural and increasingly residential corner of the county. Although the village has managed to stay distinct and separate from the growing conurbations of Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze , it...

, Little Clacton

Little Clacton

Little Clacton is a small rural village in Essex. It is located on the Tendring Peninsular. Close to Clacton-on-Sea.The village is also within radius of a local weather station, which provides Live Weather Conditions, Live Webcam Image & a 5 Day Weather Forecast for the villages Weeley & Little...

, Little Oakley

Little Oakley, Essex

Little Oakley is a village in Essex, England....

, Parkeston, Ramsey and Thorpe-le-Soken

Thorpe-le-Soken

Thorpe-le-Soken is a village in Essex, located west of Walton-on-the-Naze, Frinton-on-Sea and north of Clacton-on-Sea.-History:Thorpe-le-Soken's history can be traced back to Saxon times....

.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

, the Boundary Commission for England created a new constituency of Clacton

Clacton (UK Parliament constituency)

Clacton is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...

, which is based on the current Harwich seat.

Harwich will be moved into a new constituency

Harwich and North Essex (UK Parliament constituency)

Harwich and North Essex is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....

 called Harwich and North Essex

Harwich and North Essex (UK Parliament constituency)

Harwich and North Essex is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....

.

1604 to 1660

Parliament	First member	Second member
1604	Sir Thomas Cheek Thomas Cheek Sir Thomas Cheek or Cheke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1604 and 1653....	Edward Grimston
1614	Sir Thomas Cheek Thomas Cheek Sir Thomas Cheek or Cheke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1604 and 1653....	Edward Grimston
1621-1622	Sir Thomas Cheek Thomas Cheek Sir Thomas Cheek or Cheke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1604 and 1653....	Edward Grimston
1624	Sir Nathaniel Rich	Christopher Harris
1625	Sir Edward Sawyer	Christopher Harris
1626	Sir Nathaniel Rich	Christopher Harris
1628-1629	Sir Nathaniel Rich	Christopher Harris
1629–1640	No Parliaments convened
1640 (Apr)	Sir Thomas Cheek Thomas Cheek Sir Thomas Cheek or Cheke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1604 and 1653....	Sir John Jacob, 1st Baronet Sir John Jacob, 1st Baronet Sir John Jacob, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and 1641. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War....
1640 (Nov)	Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1st Baronet Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1st Baronet Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1614 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War....	Sir Thomas Cheek Thomas Cheek Sir Thomas Cheek or Cheke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1604 and 1653....
1645	Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1st Baronet Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1st Baronet Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1614 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War.... , died replaced 1647 by Capel Luckyn Sir Capel Luckyn, 2nd Baronet Sir Capel Luckyn, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1647 and 1679....   who was secluded Dec 1648 in Pride's Purge	Sir Thomas Cheek Thomas Cheek Sir Thomas Cheek or Cheke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1604 and 1653....
1648	Sir Thomas Cheek Thomas Cheek Sir Thomas Cheek or Cheke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1604 and 1653....
1653	Harwich not represented in Barebone's Parliament
1654	Harwich not represented in First Protectorate Parliament
1656	Harwich not represented in Second Protectorate Parliament
1659	John Sicklemore John Sicklemore John Sicklemore was an English politician.Sicklemore was M.P. for Ipswich, between 1661 and his death in 1670. He served with William Blois....	Thomas King

1660–1868

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1660		Sir Capel Luckyn, Bt Sir Capel Luckyn, 2nd Baronet Sir Capel Luckyn, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1647 and 1679....			Sir Henry Wright, Bt Sir Henry Wright, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Wright, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1664.Wright was the son of Laurence Wright MD...
1661		Thomas King
1664					Sir Capel Luckyn, Bt Sir Capel Luckyn, 2nd Baronet Sir Capel Luckyn, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1647 and 1679....
February 1679		Sir Anthony Dean Anthony Dean (mayor) Sir Anthony Deane was a 17th century mayor of Harwich, naval architect, shipbuilder and member of Parliament.There is some doubt as to his origins. The Dictionary of National Biography states that he was born circa 1638 and was elder son of Anthony Deane, mariner of Harwich. There was an Anthony...			Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man...
August 1679		Sir Philip Parker, Bt Sir Philip Parker, 1st Baronet Sir Philip Parker, 1st Baronet , was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1679 and 1687.Parker was the son of Sir Philip Parker of Erwarton and his wife Dorothy Gawdy, daughter of Sir Robert Gawdy of Claxton, Norfolk.Parker was created a Baronet of Arwarton in the County of...			Sir Thomas Middleton Thomas Middleton (disambiguation) Thomas Middleton was an English playwright.Thomas Middleton may also refer to:*Thomas Middleton , Anglican bishop in India...
1685		Sir Anthony Dean Anthony Dean (mayor) Sir Anthony Deane was a 17th century mayor of Harwich, naval architect, shipbuilder and member of Parliament.There is some doubt as to his origins. The Dictionary of National Biography states that he was born circa 1638 and was elder son of Anthony Deane, mariner of Harwich. There was an Anthony...			Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man...
1689		Sir Thomas Middleton Thomas Middleton (disambiguation) Thomas Middleton was an English playwright.Thomas Middleton may also refer to:*Thomas Middleton , Anglican bishop in India...			John Eldred John Eldred -Early life:Eldred was born in 1552 at New Buckenham in Norfolk, where his father had moved from Knattishail in Suffolk. It seems probable that he went to London while still young, devoted himself to business and prospered. He was already a well-to-do merchant when 'upon Shrove Monday 1583' he...
1690					The Viscount Newhaven Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1698....
1695					Sir Thomas Davall
1698		Samuel Atkinson
1699		Sir Thomas Middleton Thomas Middleton (disambiguation) Thomas Middleton was an English playwright.Thomas Middleton may also refer to:*Thomas Middleton , Anglican bishop in India...
1701		Dennis Lydell
1702		John Ellis John Ellis (official) -Life:Born in or about 1643, he was the eldest son of John Ellis, author of Vindiciæ Catholicæ, by his wife Susannah, daughter of William Welbore of Cambridge. He received his education at Westminster School, and was elected student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1664. At college he met Humphrey...
May 1708		Sir John Leake John Leake Sir John Leake was an English Admiral in the Royal Navy and a politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1715.Leake was born at Rotherhithe, the second son of Richard Leake, Master Gunner of England....			Thomas Frankland Sir Thomas Frankland, 3rd Baronet Sir Thomas Frankland, 3rd Baronet , of Thirkelby in Yorkshire, was an English Member of Parliament.He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd Baronet, and entered Jesus College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1700. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 30 October...
December 1708		Kenrick Edisbury
1713		Carew Harvey Mildmay			Sir Thomas Davall
May 1714					Thomas Heath
June 1714					Benedict Calvert Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, 10th Proprietary Governor of Maryland was an English nobleman and politician. He was the second son of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore by Jane Lowe. He became his father's heir upon the death of his elder brother, Cecil in 1681...
1715		Sir Philip Parker-a-Morley-Long, Bt Sir Philip Parker-a-Morley-Long, 3rd Baronet Sir Philip Parker-a-Morley-Long, 3rd Baronet was an English politician.-Early life:Born at Arwarton, Suffolk, the son of Sir Philip Parker, 2nd Baronet, and Mary Fortrey, he took the name of Long on inheriting the estate of Whaddon in Wiltshire from his cousin Sir Walter Long...			Thomas Heath
1722					Humphrey Parsons
1727					The Viscount Perceval John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont PC, FRS , known as Sir John Perceval, 5t, from 1691 to 1715, as The Lord Perceval from 1715 to 1722 and as The Viscount Perceval from 1722 to 1733, was an Anglo-Irish politician....
1734		Carteret Leathes			Charles Stanhope
1741		John Phillipson			Hill Mussenden
1747					Viscount Coke Edward Coke, Viscount Coke Edward Coke, Viscount Coke , styled The Hon. Edward Coke from 1728 to 1744, was a British Member of Parliament....
1753					Wenman Coke
1756		Viscount Duncannon William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough PC PC was an Irish and English peer and member of the House of Lords, styled Hon. William Ponsonby from 1723 to 1739 and Viscount Duncannon from 1739 to 1758...
1758		Thomas Sewell Thomas Sewell Sir Thomas Sewell was an English judge and Member of Parliament, and Master of the Rolls from 1764 to 1784.Sewell was a member of Middle Temple, called to the bar in 1734, and practised in the Chancery courts. He became a bencher of his inn and King's Counsel in 1754, and Treasurer of the Inn in...
1761		Charles Townshend Charles Townshend Charles Townshend was a British politician. He was born at his family's seat of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, the second son of Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend, and Audrey , daughter and heiress of Edward Harrison of Ball's Park, near Hertford, a lady who rivalled her son in...			John Roberts
1767		Thomas Bradshaw
1768		Edward Harvey Edward Harvey (British Army officer) Lieutenant General Edward Harvey was an Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Harvey was commissioned as a cornet in the 10th Dragoons in 1741.He served as Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Culloden in 1746....
1772					Charles Jenkinson Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool PC , known as the Lord Hawkesbury between 1786 and 1796, was a British statesman. He was the father of Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool....
1774					John Robinson
1778		George North George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford , known as the Honourable George North until 1790 and as Lord North from 1790 to 1792, was a British politician....
1784		Thomas Orde Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton PC was born Thomas Orde, son of John Orde of Morpeth, Northumberland. He was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, graduating Master of Arts in 1773....	Tory Tory Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...
1796		Richard Hopkins
1799		Henry Dillon-Lee Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, 13th Viscount Dillon was an Irish peer, writer and MP for Harwich and for County Mayo.His daughter Henrietta Maria married Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley.- Biography :...
1802		Thomas Myers
January 1803					John Hiley Addington John Hiley Addington John Hiley Addington was a British Tory Party politician.-Background and education:Addington was the second son of Anthony Addington and his wife Mary, daughter of Haviland John Hiley. His older brother was Henry Addington, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and under whose...	Tory
April 1803		James Adams
1806		William Henry Fremantle William Henry Fremantle Sir William Henry Fremantle GCH, PC was a British courtier and politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household from 1826 to 1837.-Background:...
March 1807		James Adams
May 1807		William Huskisson William Huskisson William Huskisson PC was a British statesman, financier, and Member of Parliament for several constituencies, including Liverpool...	Tory Tory Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...
1812		Nicholas Vansittart Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley PC, FRS, FSA was an English politician, and one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer in British history.-Background and education:...
1818					Charles Bathurst Charles Bathurst Charles Bathurst PC , known as Charles Bragge from 1754 to 1804, was a British politician of the early 19th century.-Background and education:...
1823		George Canning George Canning George Canning PC, FRS was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and briefly Prime Minister.-Early life: 1770–1793:...	Tory Tory Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...		John Charles Herries John Charles Herries John Charles Herries PC , known as J. C. Herries, was a British politician and financier and a frequent member of Tory and Conservative cabinets in the early to mid 19th century.-Background and education:...	Tory Tory Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...
1826		Nicholas Conyngham Tindal Nicholas Conyngham Tindal Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal was a celebrated English lawyer who successfully defended Queen Caroline at her trial for adultery in 1820...	Tory Tory Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...
1827		Sir William Rae, Bt
1830		George Robert Dawson George Robert Dawson George Robert Dawson PC , was an Anglo-Irish Tory politician.-Background and education:Dawson was born at Castledawson, County Londonderry, Ireland, the son of Arthur Dawson, who represented Banagher, Midleton and Newtownards in the Irish Parliament, and Catherine Tyrone...
1832		Christopher Thomas Tower
1835		Francis Robert Bonham Francis Robert Bonham Francis Robert Bonham was a British party agent and politician. He was the only surviving son of Francis Warren Bonham, a landowner from Kildare who had moved to London with his wife Dorothea...
1837		Alexander Ellice
1841		John Attwood			William Beresford William Beresford William Beresford was a British Conservative politician.-Background:He was the only son of Marcus Beresford and his wife Frances Arabella, daughter of Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown. Beresford was educated at St Mary Hall, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1819 and a...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1847					John Bagshaw John Bagshaw John Bagshaw was a British Whig politician.He was elected at the 1835 general election as Member of Parliament for Sudbury, having unsuccessfully contested the seat at a by-election in July 1834. At the 1837 general election, he did not stand again in Sudbury, but contested Kidderminster...
1848		Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bt John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton GCB, PC, FRS , known as Sir John Hobhouse, Bt, from 1831 to 1851, was a British politician and memoirist.-Background and education:...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
March 1851		Henry Thoby Prinsep
May 1851		Robert Wigram Crawford Robert Wigram Crawford Robert Wigram Crawford was a British East India merchant and Governor of the Bank of England and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1874....
April 1852		Sir Fitzroy Kelly Fitzroy Kelly Sir Fitzroy Edward Kelly PC, KC , was an English commercial lawyer, Tory politician and judge.-Background and education:...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
May 1852		Isaac Butt Isaac Butt Isaac Butt Q.C. M.P. was an Irish barrister, politician, Member of Parliament , and the founder and first leader of a number of Irish nationalist parties and organisations, including the Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society in 1836, the Home Government Association in 1870 and in 1873 the Home...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
July 1852		George Montagu Warren Sandford George Montagu Warren Sandford George Montagu Warren Sandford , known until 1886 as George Montagu Warren Peacocke, was a British Conservative Party politician....	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...		David Waddington David Waddington (Essex) David Waddington was an English Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Maldon from 1847 to 1852, for Harwich from 1852 to 1856- References:**- External links :...
1853		John Bagshaw John Bagshaw John Bagshaw was a British Whig politician.He was elected at the 1835 general election as Member of Parliament for Sudbury, having unsuccessfully contested the seat at a by-election in July 1834. At the 1837 general election, he did not stand again in Sudbury, but contested Kidderminster...
March 1857					George Drought Warburton
December 1857					Robert John Bagshaw
March 1859		Henry Jervis-White-Jervis Henry Jervis-White-Jervis Henry Jervis-White-Jervis was a British army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1880....
May 1859					Hon. William Campbell William Campbell, 2nd Baron Stratheden and Campbell William Frederick Campbell, 2nd Baron Stratheden, 2nd Baron Campbell , was a British peer and Liberal politician.-Background:...
1860					Richard Thomas Rowley
1865					John Kelk
1868	Constituency reduced to one member

1868–2010

Election		Member	Party
1868 Reform Act 1867 The Representation of the People Act 1867, 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102 was a piece of British legislation that enfranchised the urban male working class in England and Wales....		Representation reduced to one member
	1868 United Kingdom general election, 1868 The 1868 United Kingdom general election was the first after passage of the Reform Act 1867, which enfranchised many male householders, thus greatly increasing the number of men who could vote in elections in the United Kingdom...	Henry Jervis-White-Jervis Henry Jervis-White-Jervis Henry Jervis-White-Jervis was a British army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1880....	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	1880 United Kingdom general election, 1880 -Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...	Henry Whatley Tyler Henry Whatley Tyler Sir Henry Whatley Tyler was a British Inspector of Railways, Railway Company director and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1892.-Early life:...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 -Seats summary:-See also:*List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885*Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918*Representation of the People Act 1884*Redistribution of Seats Act 1885-References:...	James Round James Round James Round JP was an English first-class cricketer and Conservative politician.Round was born at Colchester, the son of Rev. James Thomas Round and his wife Louisa Barlow. His father was Rector of St. Runwald's and St. Nicholas, Colchester, and prebendary of Broomesbury. Round was educated at...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1906*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**...	Arthur Levy Lever	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1910	Harry Newton Sir Harry Newton, 2nd Baronet Sir Harry Kottingham Newton, 2nd Baronet , was a British Conservative politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Harwich in 1910, a seat he held until 1922. He died in June 1951, aged 76.-References:...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	1922 United Kingdom general election, 1922 The United Kingdom general election of 1922 was held on 15 November 1922. It was the first election held after most of the Irish counties left the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State, and was won by Andrew Bonar Law's Conservatives, who gained an overall majority over Labour, led by John...	Albert Ernest Hillary Albert Ernest Hillary Albert Ernest Hillary was an English chocolate manufacturer and Liberal politician.-Family:Hillary was the son of John Hillary of Dans Castle, Tow Law, County Durham. In 1897 he married Annie Maud Mary Bartleet of Sparkhill. They had one son and a daughter...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1924 United Kingdom general election, 1924 - Seats summary :- References :* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* - External links :* * *...	Sir Frederick Gill Rice	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	1929 United Kingdom general election, 1929 -Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987*-External links:***...	Sir Percy John Pybus	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1931 United Kingdom general election, 1931 The United Kingdom general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. It was also the last election, and the only one under universal suffrage, where one party received an absolute majority of the votes cast.The 1931 general election was the...		National Liberal National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
	1935 United Kingdom general election, 1935 The United Kingdom general election held on 14 November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Conservative Stanley Baldwin. The greatest number of MPs, as before, were Conservative, while the National Liberal vote held steady...	Sir Stanley Holmes Stanley Holmes, 1st Baron Dovercourt Joseph Stanley Holmes, 1st Baron Dovercourt was a British chartered accountant, businessman and National Liberal Party politician.-Background and education:...	National Liberal National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
	1954	Julian Ridsdale Julian Ridsdale Sir Julian Errington Ridsdale, CBE was a British National Liberal and later Conservative Party politician and long-serving Member of Parliament for the constituency of Harwich in Essex...	National Liberal National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
	1966 United Kingdom general election, 1966 The 1966 United Kingdom general election on 31 March 1966 was called by sitting Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Wilson's decision to call an election turned on the fact that his government, elected a mere 17 months previously in 1964 had an unworkably small majority of only 4 MPs...		Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	1992 United Kingdom general election, 1992 The United Kingdom general election of 1992 was held on 9 April 1992, and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party. This election result was one of the biggest surprises in 20th Century politics, as polling leading up to the day of the election showed Labour under leader Neil...	Iain Sproat Iain Sproat Iain MacDonald Sproat was a British Conservative Member of Parliament . He was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford. He worked as a publisher and journalist....	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...	Ivan Henderson Ivan Henderson Ivan John Henderson is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Harwich from 1997 to 2005.-Early life:...	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
	2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005 The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, but with a majority of 66, reduced from 160....	Douglas Carswell Douglas Carswell John Douglas Wilson Carswell is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Clacton, having been first elected as MP for Harwich in 2005....	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	2010	Constituency abolished: see Clacton Clacton (UK Parliament constituency) Clacton is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...  and Harwich and North Essex Harwich and North Essex (UK Parliament constituency) Harwich and North Essex is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....

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