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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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13 December 1832		528/634	83.28
John Sayer Poulter	Whig	318	60.23
Edward Penrhyn	Whig	210	39.77
Majority		108	20.45

8 January 1835		385/554	69.49
John Sayer Poulter	Whig	237	61.56
Hon William Samuel Best	Conservative Party	148	38.44
Majority		89	23.12

26 July 1837		443/496	89.31
John Sayer Poulter	Whig	224	50.56
George Benvenuto Mathew	Conservative Party	219	49.44
Majority		5	1.13

3 April 1838 Petition - John Poulter unseated and George Mathew declared elected.

2 July 1841		421/497	84.71
Henry Howard, Baron Howard	Whig	219	52.02
George Benvenuto Mathew	Conservative Party	202	47.98
Majority		17	4.04

13 February 1845 Succession of Baron Howard to the Peerage - 2nd Earl of Effingham.

5 March 1845
Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Whig	Unopposed

31 July 1847		389/484	80.37
Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Whig	213	54.76
Richard Bethell	Conservative Party	176	45.24
Majority		37	9.51

9 July 1852		509
Hon William Henry Berkeley Portman	Whig	Unopposed

27 April 1857		540
George Grenfell Glyn	Whig	Unopposed

29 April 1859		515
George Grenfell Glyn	Liberal Party	Unopposed

11 July 1865		461
George Grenfell Glyn	Liberal Party	Unopposed

16 November 1868		1,311
George Grenfell Glyn	Liberal Party	Unopposed

24 July 1873 Succession of Hon George Glyn to the Peerage - 2nd Baron Wolverton.

30 August 1873		1,137/1,311	86.73
Vere Fane Benett-Stanford	Conservative Party	603	53.03
Henry Danby Seymour	Liberal Party	534	46.97
Majority		69	6.07

4 February 1874		1,153/1,286	89.66
Vere Fane Benett-Stanford	Conservative Party	591	51.26
Henry Danby Seymour	Liberal Party	562	48.74
Majority		29	2.52

2 April 1880		1,270/1,388	91.50
Hon Sidney Carr Glyn	Liberal Party	652	51.34
Vere Fane Benett-Stanford	Conservative Party	618	48.66
Majority		34	2.68