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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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20 December 1832		18,056
George William Frederick Howard, Viscount Morpeth	Whig	Unopposed
George Strickland	Whig	Unopposed

17 January 1835		18,061
George William Frederick Howard, Viscount Morpeth	Whig	Unopposed
Sir George Strickland	Whig	Unopposed

22 April 1835 Resignation of Viscount Morpeth on appointment as Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

6 May 1835		15,325/18,061	84.85
George William Frederick Howard, Viscount Morpeth	Whig	9,066	59.16
Hon John Stuart-Wortley	Conservative Party	6,259	40.84
Majority		2,807	18.32

7 August 1837		23,708/29,346	80.79
George William Frederick Howard, Viscount Morpeth	Whig	12,576	53.05
Sir George Strickland, bt	Whig	11,892	50.16
Hon John Stuart-Wortley	Conservative Party	11,489	48.46
Majority		403	1.70

12 July 1841		25,273/31,215	80.96
Hon John Stuart-Wortley	Conservative Party	13,165	52.09
Edmund Beckett Denison	Conservative Party	12,780	50.57
William Thomas Spencer Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton	Whig	12,080	47.80
George William Frederick Howard, Viscount Morpeth	Whig	12,031	47.60
Majority		700	2.77

19 December 1845 Succession of Hon John Stuart-Wortley to the Peerage - 2nd Baron Wharncliffe.

4 February 1846
George William Frederick Howard, Viscount Morpeth	Whig	Unopposed

1846 Resignation of Viscount Morpeth on appointment as First Commissioner of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings.

18 July 1846
George William Frederick Howard, Viscount Morpeth	Whig	Unopposed

7 August 1847		36,165
George William Frederick Howard, Viscount Morpeth	Whig	Unopposed
Richard Cobden	Radical	Unopposed

7 October 1848 Succession of Viscount Morpeth to the Peerage - 7th Earl of Carlisle.

11 December 1848		26,538/35,280	75.22
Edmund Beckett Denison	Conservative Party	14,743	55.55
Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, Bt	Whig	11,795	44.45
Majority		2,948	11.11

17 July 1852		37,319
Richard Cobden	Radical	Unopposed
Edmund Beckett Denison	Conservative Party	Unopposed

30 March 1857		37,513
Edmund Beckett Denison	Conservative Party	Unopposed
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Viscount Goderich	Whig	Unopposed

28 January 1859 Succession of Viscount Goderich to the Peerage - 2nd Earl of Ripon.

21 February 1859
Sir John William Ramsden, Bt	Whig	Unopposed

7 May 1859		29,326/36,645	80.03
Sir John William Ramsden, Bt	Liberal Party	15,978	54.48
Francis Crossley	Liberal Party	15,401	52.52
Hon James Archibald Stuart-Wortley	Conservative Party	13,636	46.50
Majority		1,765	6.02