| Yorkshire, East Riding, Buckrose Division | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | County |
| Region: | England |
| County: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
Buckrose was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, comprising the northern part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, represented by one Member of Parliament, and was created for the 1885 general election.
Buckrose was abolished for the 1950 general election, when boundary changes reduced the East Riding's number of county constituencies from three to two, the eastern part of the constituency and most of the voters being included in the new Bridlington constituency and the remainder in the Beverley constituency.
1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Bainton Beacon, Buckrose, and Dickering.
1918–1950: The Borough of Bridlington, the Urban Districts of Filey, Great Driffield, and Norton, and the Rural Districts of Bridlington, Driffield, Norton, and Sherburn.
The constituency consisted of the northern third of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The largest town in the seat was Bridlington, but it also included Filey, Driffield, and Norton, as well as numerous villages, and the rural element was predominant. At the time of the 1921 census, almost two-fifths (38%) of the occupied male population were engaged in agriculture.
Buckrose took its name from the wapentake of Buckrose, one of the medieval sub-divisions of the East Riding which, however, had long ceased to have much administrative significance by 1885, and had covered only part of the area of the constituency and a minority of its population. (The constituency also included the whole of the former wapentake of Dickering, which included Bridlington and Filey, and part of the wapentake of Harthill which included Driffield.) The name seems to have been chosen primarily to avoid offending any local sensibilities, and with little regard for comprehensibility (a criticism also levelled at many of the other new constituency names created under the 1885 Reform Act).
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Christopher Sykes | Conservative | ||
| William Alexander McArthur[1] | ||||
| 1886 | Christopher Sykes | Conservative | ||
| Sir Angus Holden | Liberal | |||
| Sir Luke White | Liberal | |||
| 1918 | Algernon Moreing | Coalition Liberal | ||
| Guy Gaunt[2] | Conservative | |||
| Sir Albert Braithwaite | Conservative | |||
| George Wadsworth | Liberal | |||
| 1950 | constituency abolished: see Bridlington and Beverley | |||
General Election 1914–15:Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1914 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
General Election 1939–40:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;