North Leicestershire, formally the "Northern Division of Leicestershire", 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 West Goscote, East Goscote and Framland, and the two detached portions of the Hundred of Gartree situated on the east of the Hundred of East Goscote (the parishes of Baggrave, Burrough, Knossington, Marefield, Pickwell-cum-Leesthorpe, Ouston, and Newbold-Saucey).
History The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, when the two-seat Leicestershire 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: Bosworth, Harborough, Loughborough and Melton.
Members of Parliament Election1st Member1st Party2nd Member2nd Party 1832 Lord Robert Manners Tory Charles March-Phillipps Radical 1834 Conservative 1835 by-election Lord Charles Manners Conservative 1837 Edward Basil Farnham Conservative 1852 Marquess of Granby Conservative 1857 by-election Lord John Manners Conservative 1859 Edward Bourchier Hartopp Conservative 1868 Samuel Clowes Conservative 1880 Edwyn Burnaby Conservative 1883 by-election Hon. Montagu Curzon Conservative1885 Redistribution of Seats Act: constituency abolished
Election results Elections in the 1830s
Manners' death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1840s
Elections in the 1850s
Manners succeeded to the peerage, becoming 6th Duke of Rutland and causing a by-election.
Manners was appointed First Commissioner of Works, requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s
Manners was appointed First Commissioner of Works, requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1870s
Manners was appointed Postmaster General of the United Kingdom, requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1880s
Burnaby's death caused a by-election.
Manners was appointed Postmaster General of the United Kingdom, requiring a by-election.
References
Sources F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)