Liverpool (UK Parliament constituency)

The borough of Liverpool exercised the privilege of sending two members to Parliament in 1295 and 1307, but then for 240 years the right was wholly suspended. In the first Parliament of Edward VI, which met 4 November 1547, though Elective Franchise was restored to the two Lancashire boroughs of Liverpool and Wigan and has since continued almost without further interruption. Representation was increased to three Members in 1868 and the constituency abolished in 1885, to be replaced by the nine new constituencies of Abercromby, East Toxteth, Everton, Exchange, Kirkdale, Scotland, Walton, West Derby and West Toxteth. ==Members of Parliament==

1295–1640 1640–1868 1868–1885 • Constituency increased to three Members (1868) ==Elections==

Pre-1832 Huskisson's death caused a by-election. • The by-election was declared void but no new writ was issued before dissolution Denison was also elected for Nottinghamshire and chose to sit there, causing a by-election. 1832–1868 Cresswell resigned after being appointed a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, causing a by-election. Election declared void on petition, due to bribery and treating by Mackenzie and Turner, causing a by-election. Liddell succeeded to the peerage, becoming 2nd Baron Ravensworth and causing a by-election. 1868–1885 Seat increased to three members Graves' death caused a by-election. Ryder was appointed Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education, requiring a by-election. Torr's death caused a by-election. Ramsay succeeded to the peerage, becoming Earl of Dalhousie, causing a by-election. Ryder succeeded to the peerage, becoming Earl of Harrowby, causing a by-election. ==Notes and references==

Notes References • Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [https://archive.org/details/achronologicalr00beatgoog ] • D. Brunton & 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) • F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989) • J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949) •