Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)

Surrey is one of the historic counties of England, located south of the River Thames, in south east England. The constituency comprised the whole county but had six towns which were boroughs for some of when it was a constituency: Bletchingley, Gatton, Guildford, Haslemere, Reigate and Southwark - each of which elected two MPs in their own right, these were not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the boroughs could confer a vote at the county election.)

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Notes

The county franchise, from 1430, was held by the owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more. Each voter had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings, which took place in the county town of Guildford. The expense and difficulty of voting at only one location in the county, together with the lack of a secret ballot contributed to the corruption and intimidation of voters, which was widespread in the unreformed British political system.

The expense, to candidates, of contested elections encouraged the leading families of the county to agree on the candidates to be returned unopposed whenever possible. Contested county elections were therefore unusual.

Where there was only one candidate of a party in successive elections, for the same number of seats, change is calculated on the party vote. Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote.

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|title=General election 1802: Surrey (2 seats)}}

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|candidate = Lord William Russell

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|candidate = Sir John Frederick, Bt

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• Seat vacated on appointment of Russell as a Lord of the Admiralty 10 February 1806

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|title=By-election 22 February 1806: Surrey}}

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|candidate = Lord William Russell

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• Note (1806 by-election): (Source: The Times edition of 24 February 1806)

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|title=General election 1806: Surrey (2 seats)}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Whig (British political party)

|candidate = Lord William Russell

|votes = 315

|percentage = 43.45

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = Samuel Thornton

|votes = 246

|percentage = 33.93

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|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = Sir John Frederick, Bt

|votes = 164

|percentage = 22.62

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{{Election box majority

|votes = 69

|percentage = 9.52

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|votes = 725

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• Note (1806): Poll 2 days. "Although Mr. Thornton had lost his election for Hull, he resigned on the second day in favour of Sir J. Frederick, who was last on the poll". (Source: Stooks Smith)

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|title=General election 1807: Surrey (2 seats)}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = Samuel Thornton

|votes = 1,471

|percentage = 52.48

|change = +18.55

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = George Holme Sumner

|votes = 994

|percentage = 35.46

|change = +35.46

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{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Whig (British political party)

|candidate = Lord William Russell

|votes = 338

|percentage = 12.06

|change = -31.39

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{{Election box majority

|votes = 956

|percentage = 23.40

|change = N/A

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|votes = 2,803

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{{Election box begin

|title=General election 1812: Surrey (2 seats)}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = George Holme Sumner

|votes = 1,924

|percentage = 40.66

|change = +5.20

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = Thomas Sutton (MP)|Sir Thomas Sutton

|votes = 1,791

|percentage = 37.85

|change = +37.85

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|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Baronet

|votes = 1,017

|percentage = 21.49

|change = +21.49

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{{Election box majority

|votes = 774

|percentage = 16.36

|change = -6.96

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|votes = 4,732

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• Note (1807): Poll 9 days; 3,296 freeholders cast 4,732 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)
• Death of Sutton

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|title=By-election November 1813: Surrey}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = Samuel Thornton

|votes = 1,133

|percentage = 69.04

|change = N/A

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|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Baronet

|votes = 508

|percentage = 30.96

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{{Election box majority

|votes = 625

|percentage = 38.08

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|votes = 1,641

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|winner = Tories (British political party)

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• Note (1813 by-election): Poll 4 days; 1,641 freeholders voted. (Source: Stooks Smith)

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|title=General election 1818: Surrey (2 seats)}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = George Holme Sumner

|votes = Unopposed

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Whig (British political party)

|candidate = William Joseph Denison

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|change = New

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{{Election box begin

|title=General election 1820: Surrey (2 seats)}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = George Holme Sumner

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Whig (British political party)

|candidate = William Joseph Denison

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{{Election box begin

|title=General election 1826: Surrey (2 seats)}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Whig (British political party)

|candidate = William Joseph Denison

|votes = 2,309

|percentage = 40.23

|change = N/A

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Whig (British political party)

|candidate = Charles Nicholas Pallmer

|votes = 2,056

|percentage = 35.82

|change = N/A

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{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = George Holme Sumner

|votes = 1,375

|percentage = 23.95

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{{Election box majority

|votes = 681

|percentage = 12.87

|change = N/A

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|votes = 5,740

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• Note (1826): Poll 5 days; 3,743 freeholders cast 5,740 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)

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|title=General election 1830: Surrey (2 seats)}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Whig (British political party)

|candidate = William Joseph Denison

|votes = 2,159

|percentage = 44.08

|change = +3.85

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Whig (British political party)

|candidate = John Ivatt Briscoe

|votes = 1,487

|percentage = 30.36

|change = +30.36

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{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Tories (British political party)

|candidate = Hylton Jolliffe

|votes = 1,252

|percentage = 25.56

|change = +1.61

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{{Election box majority

|votes = 235

|percentage = 4.80

|change = -8.07

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{{Election box turnout

|votes = 4,898

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• Note (1830): Poll 3 days; 2,977 freeholders cast 4,898 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)

{{Election box begin

|title=General election 1831: Surrey (2 seats)}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Whig (British political party)

|candidate = William Joseph Denison

|votes = Unopposed

|percentage = N/A

|change = N/A

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = Whig (British political party)

|candidate = John Ivatt Briscoe

|votes = Unopposed

|percentage = N/A

|change = N/A

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• Constituency abolished - county split into two divisions (1832)

• List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

• Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Gh2wKY2rkDUC&q=Return+of+Members+of+Parliament]
• D. Brunton and D. H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
• Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9GqTX0uoT8C&pg=PR9]
• J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
• J. Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England, 1st edition published in three volumes (1844–50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F. W. S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973) out of copyright
• Frederic A Youngs, Jr., Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979)
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Category:Parliamentary constituencies in Surrey (historic)

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