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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1832		1,519/1,575	96.44
William Ewart Gladstone	Tory	887	58.39
William Farnworth Handley	Tory	798	52.53
Thomas Wilde	Whig	726	47.79
Majority		72	4.74

5 January 1835		1,273
William Ewart Gladstone	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Thomas Wilde	Whig	Unopposed

24 July 1837		1,221
William Ewart Gladstone	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Thomas Wilde	Whig	Unopposed

1839 Resignation of Thomas Wilde on appointment as Solicitor-General.

25 January 1840		1,073/1,130	94.96
Sir Thomas Wilde	Whig	541	50.42
Frederick Thesiger	Conservative Party	532	49.58
Majority		9	0.84

30 June 1841		1,004/1,116	89.96
William Ewart Gladstone	Conservative Party	633	63.05
Lord John James Robert Manners	Conservative Party	630	62.75
Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse	Whig	394	39.24
Majority		236	23.51

3 September 1841 Resignation of William Gladstone on appointment as Vice President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint.

14 September 1841		1,116
William Ewart Gladstone	Conservative Party	Unopposed

23 December 1845 Resignation of William Gladstone on appointment as Secretary of State for the Colonies.

29 January 1846
John Stuart	Conservative Party	Unopposed

30 July 1847		772/951	81.18
John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton	Conservative Party	614	79.53
John Stuart	Conservative Party	487	63.08
George Hussey Packe	Conservative Party	443	57.38
Majority		44	5.70

9 July 1852		693/867	79.93
Granville Edward Harcourt Vernon	Peelite	545	78.64
John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton	Conservative Party	479	69.12
Montague Merryweather Turner	Radical	362	52.24
Majority		117	16.88

27 March 1857		763
Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln	Peelite	Unopposed
John Handley	Peelite	Unopposed

30 April 1859		670/763	87.81
Grosvenor Hodgkinson	Liberal Party	489	72.99
John Handley	Liberal Party	435	64.93
Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln	Conservative Party	416	62.09
Majority		19	2.84

11 July 1865		710
Grosvenor Hodgkinson	Liberal Party	Unopposed
Lord Arthur Pelham-Clinton	Liberal Party	Unopposed

18 November 1868		1,466/1,803	81.31
Grosvenor Hodgkinson	Liberal Party	1,089	74.28
Edward Denison	Liberal Party	1,017	69.37
Philip H Handley	Independent Liberal	826	56.34
Majority		191	13.03

26 January 1870 Death of Edward Denison.

1 April 1870
Samuel Boteler Bristowe	Liberal Party	827	53.98
William Campbell Sleigh	Conservative Party	653	42.62
Sir George Grey	Liberal Party	52	3.39
Majority		174	11.36

3 February 1874		1,761/1,974	89.21
Thomas Earp	Liberal Party	973	55.25
Samuel Boteler Bristowe	Liberal Party	912	51.79
Edward Field	Conservative Party	824	46.79
Henry Eyre	Conservative Party	813	46.17
Majority		88	5.00

1 April 1880		2,017/2,297	87.81
Thomas Earp	Liberal Party	1,073	53.21
William Newman Nicholson	Conservative Party	993	49.24
Hon Murray Edward Gordon Finch-Hatton	Conservative Party	985	48.85
Samuel Boteler Bristowe	Liberal Party	982	48.70
Majority		8	0.40