Bradford (UK Parliament constituency) explained

Bradford
Parliament:uk
Year:1832
Abolished:1885
Type:Borough
Elects Howmany:Two
Region:England
Towns:Bradford

Bradford was a parliamentary constituency in Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until it was abolished for the 1885 general election.

It was then split into three new constituencies: Bradford Central, Bradford East, and Bradford West.

Boundaries

The constituency was based upon the town of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was enfranchised as a two-member parliamentary borough from 1832. Before 1832 the area was only represented as part of the county constituency of Yorkshire. After 1832 the non-resident Forty Shilling Freeholders of the area continued to qualify for a county vote (initially in the West Riding of Yorkshire seat, and from 1865 in a division of the West Riding).

Bradford, as a new parliamentary borough, had no voters enfranchised under the ancient rights preserved by the Reform Act 1832. All voters qualified under the new uniform, borough householder franchise.

The area was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1847, covering the parishes of Bradford, Horton and Manningham. Bradford was expanded in 1882 to include Allerton, Bolton, Bowling, Heaton, Thornbury and Tyersall. However the parliamentary boundaries were not affected until the redistribution of 1885.

After the expanded borough was divided into three single member seats in 1885, Bradford became a county borough with the passing of the Local Government Act 1888. The county borough was granted city status by Letters Patent in 1897.

Members of Parliament

Two MPs were elected at each general election. The table below shows the election years in which one or both of the MPs changed.[1]

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1832Whig[2] [3] [4] Whig[5]
1835Conservative
1837Whig[6] [7] [8]
1841ConservativeWhig[9] [10]
Whig
1847Radical[11] [12] [13] [14]
Whig[15] [16] [17]
1852Conservative[18] [19]
1857Peelite[20] [21] Radical[22]
1859Liberal
Liberal
1867 by-election
1868
Liberal
1874Conservative
1880
1885constituency divided: see Bradford Central, Bradford East, and Bradford West

Elections

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1850s

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1880s

Notes and References

  1. Book: Craig, F. W. S. . F. W. S. Craig . British electoral facts, 1832-1987 . 1989 . Dartmouth . 978-0-900178-30-6.
  2. Book: Stooks Smith . Henry . The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive . 1845 . Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. . London . 144–145 . . 28 October 2018.
  3. News: The Yorkshire Elections . 28 October 2018 . Leeds Times . 15 July 1837 . 4 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
  4. Book: Peacock . A. J. . Bradford Chartism: 1838-1840 . 1969 . St. Anthony's Press . York . 978-0900701030 . 9 . . 28 October 2018.
  5. Book: Peacock . A. J. . Bradford Chartism: 1838–1840 . 1969 . St. Anthony's Press . York . 090070103X . 9 . . 9 September 2019.
  6. Book: Richard Bartholomew Mosse. The parliamentary guide, a concise biography of the members of both houses of parliament. 13 March 2013. 1837. 142.
  7. Book: Koditschek. Theodore. Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford 1750-1850. 1990. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 978-0521327718. 513. https://books.google.com/books?id=o74Qn5KxqpcC&pg=PA513. 17 April 2018. The challenge of Chartism.
  8. News: Bradford Election. 17 April 2018. Leeds Intelligencer. 31 July 1847. 4. British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
  9. News: Latest Election Intelligence . 28 October 2018 . Morning Post . 1 July 1841 . 3 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
  10. News: Elections Decided . 28 October 2018 . Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser . 10 July 1841 . 6 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
  11. Thompson, Thomas Perronet. 56. Henry James. Robinson .
  12. Turner. Michael J.. Radical Opinion in an Age of Reform: Thomas Perronet Thompson and the "Westminster Review". History. January 2001. 86. 281. 18–40. 24425286. 10.1111/1468-229X.00175.
  13. Turner. Michael J.. "Raising up Dark Englishmen": Thomas Perronet Thompson, Colonies, Race, and the Indian Mutiny. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 2005. 6. 1. 10.1353/cch.2005.0025. 162384082.
  14. Turner. Michael J.. 'Setting the captive free': Thomas Perronet Thompson, British Radicalism and the West Indies, 1820s–1860s. Slavery & Abolition. 2005. 26. 1. 115–132. 10.1080/01440390500058921. 143566796.
  15. Cox. Sheila. The Travelling Scotchmen: The Milligans of Dumfriesshire and Yorkshire. The Bradford Antiquary. 1987. 3. 27–38. 17 April 2018. Third. https://web.archive.org/web/20061015021234/http://www.bradfordhistorical.org.uk/antiquary/third/vol03/milligan.html. 15 October 2006.
  16. News: Bradford Election. 17 April 2018. Leeds Times. 25 October 1851. 6. British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
  17. News: Notices to Correspondents. 17 April 2018. Bradford Observer. 2 October 1851. 4. British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
  18. News: Nominations and Re-Elections. 17 April 2018. Elgin Courant, and Morayshire Advertiser. 9 July 1852. 3. British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
  19. News: Summary. 17 April 2018. Falkirk Herald. 8 July 1852. 2. British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
  20. News: Bradford. 17 April 2018. Jersey Independent and Daily Telegraph. 21 March 1857. 2. British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
  21. News: Election News. 17 April 2018. Lancaster Gazette. 4 April 1857. 3. British Newspaper Archive. subscription.
  22. Web site: Milgate. Murray. Thomas Perronet Thompson. Economists at Queens'. 1999. Queens' College, Cambridge. 17 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20060925031129/http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Record/1999/History/Economists.html. 25 September 2006.

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