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10 December 1832		3,322/5,220	63.64
Sir Ronald Crauford Ferguson	Whig	2,399	72.22
John William Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon	Whig	2,349	70.71
James Edward Gordon	Tory	976	29.38
Majority		1,373	41.33

19 July 1834 Resignation of Viscount Duncannon on appointment as Secretary of State for the Home Department, and being elevated to the Peerage as Baron Duncannon.

23 July 1834		2,157/5,166	41.75
Rt Hon Sir John Cam Hobhouse, bt	Radical	1,591	73.76
William Eagle	Radical	566	26.24
Majority		1,025	47.52

5 January 1835		4,454
Sir Ronald Crauford Ferguson	Whig	Unopposed
Rt Hon Sir John Cam Hobhouse, bt	Radical	Unopposed

23 April 1835 Resignation of Rt Hon Sir John Cam Hobhouse, bt on appointment as President of the Board of Control for the Affairs of India.

24 April 1835		4,454
Rt Hon Sir John Cam Hobhouse, bt	Radical	Unopposed

24 July 1837		3,728/5,475	68.09
Sir Ronald Crauford Ferguson	Whig	2,056	55.15
Rt Hon Sir John Cam Hobhouse, bt	Radical	2,052	55.04
William Henry Chicheley Plowden	Conservative Party	1,397	37.47
Horace Twiss	Conservative Party	1,396	37.45
Majority		655	17.57

10 April 1841 Death of Sir Ronald Ferguson.

26 April 1841		3,728/4,678	79.69
John Walter	Conservative Party	1,983	53.19
George Gerard de Hochepied Larpent	Whig	1,745	46.81
Majority		238	6.38

28 June 1841		671/4,678	14.34
George Gerard de Hochepied Larpent	Whig	529	78.84
Rt Hon Sir John Cam Hobhouse, bt	Radical	527	78.54
John Walter	Conservative Party	144	21.46
Thomas Broughton Charlton	Conservative Party	142	21.16
Majority		383	57.08

1841 Petition - dismissed.

John Walter and Thomas Charlton retired half an hour after the polls had opened.

5 May 1842 Resignation of Sir George Larpent, bt. (Chiltern Hundreds)

4 August 1842
John Walter	Conservative Party	1,885	51.14
Joseph Sturge	Radical	1,801	48.86
Majority		84	2.28

5 April 1843		3,567/5,172	68.97
Thomas Gisborne	Whig	1,839	51.56
John Walter	Conservative Party	1,728	48.44
Majority		111	3.11

1843 Petition - dismissed.

23 March 1843 Petition - election declared void.

July 1846 Resignation of Rt Hon Sir John Hobhouse, bt on appointment as President of the Board of Control.

8 July 1846
Rt Hon Sir John Cam Hobhouse, bt	Radical	Unopposed

28 July 1847		2,416/5,148	46.93
John Walter	Conservative Party	1,683	69.66
Feargus Edward O'Connor	Chartist	1,257	52.03
Thomas Gisborne	Whig	999	41.35
Rt Hon Sir John Cam Hobhouse, bt	Radical	893	36.96
Majority		258	10.68

1847 Petition - withdrawn.

6 July 1852		2,168/5,260	41.22
Rt Hon Edward Strutt	Whig	1,960	90.41
John Walter	Peelite	1,863	85.93
Charles Sturgeon	Chartist	512	23.62
Majority		1,351	62.32

December 1852 Resignation of Rt Hon Edward Strutt on appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

1 January 1853
Rt Hon Edward Strutt	Whig	Unopposed

25 July 1856 Resignation of Rt Hon Edward Strutt. (Hempholme)

30 July 1856
Charles Paget	Radical	Unopposed

26 March 1857		2,422/5,650	42.87
Charles Paget	Radical	2,393	98.80
John Walter	Peelite	1,836	75.81
Ernest Charles Jones	Chartist	614	25.35
Majority		1,222	50.45

28 April 1859		3,312/6,012	55.09
Charles Paget	Liberal Party	2,456	74.15
John Mellor	Liberal Party	2,181	65.85
Thomas Bromley	Conservative Party	1,836	55.43
Ernest Charles Jones	Chartist	151	4.56
Majority		345	10.42

1861 Resignation of John Mellor on appointment as a judge.

26 December 1861		3,635/6,533	55.64
Sir Robert Juckes Clifton, Bt	Independent Liberal	2,513	69.13
Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln	Liberal Party	1,122	30.87
Majority		1,391	38.27

12 July 1865		4,657/5,934	78.48
Samuel Morley	Liberal Party	2,393	51.39
Sir Robert Juckes Clifton, Bt	Independent Liberal	2,352	50.50
Charles Paget	Liberal Party	2,327	49.97
Alfred George Marten	Conservative Party	2,242	48.14
Majority		25	0.54

20 April 1866 Petition - Samuel Morley and Sir Robert Clifton, Bt unseated.

11 May 1866
Ralph Bernal Osborne	Independent Liberal	2,518	51.74
John Russell, Viscount Amberley	Liberal Party	2,494	51.24
Sir George Samuel Jenkinson, Bt	Conservative Party	2,411	49.54
Handel Cossham	Liberal Party	2,307	47.40
David Faulkner	Independent Liberal	3	0.06
Majority		83	1.71

18 November 1868		11,609/14,168	81.94
Sir Robert Juckes Clifton, Bt	Independent Liberal	5,285	45.53
Charles Ichabod Wright	Conservative Party	4,591	39.55
Charles Seely	Liberal Party	4,004	34.49
Peter William Clayden	Liberal Party	2,716	23.40
Ralph Bernal Osborne	Independent Liberal	2,031	17.50
Majority		587	5.06

30 May 1869 Death of Sir Robert Clifton, Bt.

16 June 1869		9,144/14,168	64.54
Charles Seely	Liberal Party	4,627	50.60
William Digby Seymour	Independent Liberal	4,517	49.40
Majority		110	1.20

29 July 1869 Petition - dismissed.

16 February 1870 Resignation of Ichabod Wright. (Chiltern Hundreds)

24 February 1870
Prof Hon Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert	Liberal Party	4,971	51.53
William Digby Seymour	Independent Liberal	4,675	48.47
Majority		296	3.07

4 February 1874		10,581/16,154	65.50
William Evelyn Denison	Conservative Party	5,268	49.79
Saul Isaac	Conservative Party	4,790	45.27
Robert Laycock	Liberal Party	3,732	35.27
Henry du Pre Labouchere	Liberal Party	3,545	33.50
David William Heath	Liberal/Labour	2,752	26.01
Richard Birkin	Independent Liberal	1,074	10.15
Majority		1,058	10.00

1 April 1880		13,591/18,699	72.68
Charles Seely	Liberal Party	8,499	62.53
John Skirrow Wright	Liberal Party	8,055	59.27
Saul Isaac	Conservative Party	5,575	41.02
William John Gill	Conservative Party	5,052	37.17
Majority		2,480	18.25

15 April 1880 Petition - withdrawn following the death of John Wright.

15 April 1880 Death of John Wright.

8 May 1880		18,699
Arnold Morley	Liberal Party	Unopposed