South Nottinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Nottinghamshire
South Nottinghamshire
Former county constituency; for the House of Commons
County	Nottinghamshire
1832–1885
Seats	Two
Created from	Nottinghamshire
Replaced by	Rushcliffe, Newark

South Nottinghamshire, formally the "Southern Division of Nottinghamshire" was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election.

Boundaries

1832–1885: The Hundreds of Rushcliffe, Bingham, Newark and Thurgarton.^[1]

The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, when the two-seat Nottinghamshire constituency was replaced by the Northern and Southern divisions, each of which elected two MPs.

Both divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when they were replaced by four new single-seat constituencies: Bassetlaw, Mansfield, Newark and Rushcliffe.

Election	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1832		The Earl of Lincoln	Tory^[2]	Evelyn Denison	Whig^[2]^[3]
1834			Conservative^[2]	Evelyn Denison	Whig^[2]^[3]
1837			Conservative^[2]	Lancelot Rolleston	Conservative^[2]
1846 by-election		Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard	Conservative	Lancelot Rolleston	Conservative^[2]
1849 by-election				Robert Bromley	Conservative
1851 by-election				William Hodgson Barrow	Conservative
1852		Viscount Newark	Conservative
1860 by-election		Lord Stanhope	Conservative
1866 by-election		Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard	Conservative
1874		Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard	Conservative	George Storer	Conservative
1885	Redistribution of Seats Act: constituency abolished

By-election, 20 September 1841: South Nottinghamshire^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Pelham-Clinton	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Pelham-Clinton was appointed Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 27 February 1846: South Nottinghamshire^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard	1,736	62.3	*N/A*
	Conservative	Henry Pelham-Clinton	1,049	37.7	N/A
Majority			687	24.6	N/A
Turnout			2,785	80.3	N/A
Registered electors			3,469
	Conservative hold

Rolleston resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

By-election, 17 April 1849: South Nottinghamshire^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Bromley	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Bromley's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 17 February 1851: South Nottinghamshire^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Hodgson Barrow	1,493	50.2	*N/A*
	Conservative	Sydney Pierrepont	1,482	49.8	N/A
Majority			11	0.4	N/A
Turnout			2,975	78.3	N/A
Registered electors			3,482
	Conservative hold

Pierrepont succeeded to the peerage, becoming Earl Manvers and causing a by-election.

By-election, 18 December 1860: South Nottinghamshire^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Stanhope	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Stanhope succeeded to the peerage, becoming 7th Earl of Chesterfield and causing a by-election.

By-election, 18 June 1866: South Nottinghamshire^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election 1880: South Nottinghamshire^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Storer	2,491	40.4	*N/A*
	Conservative	Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard	2,227	36.1	*N/A*
	Liberal	Samuel Bristowe	1,445	23.4	New
Majority			782	12.7	N/A
Turnout			3,804 (est)	78.0 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			4,879
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3)
Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 440. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.

South Nottinghamshire
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
County	Nottinghamshire
1832–1885
Seats	Two
Created from	Nottinghamshire
Replaced by	Rushcliffe, Newark