East Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)
East Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency covering the East Riding of Yorkshire, omitting Beverley residents save a small minority of Beverley residents who also qualified on property grounds to vote in the county seat. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament. A brief earlier guise of the seat covered the changed franchise of the First Protectorate Parliament and Second Protectorate Parliament during a fraction of the twenty years of England and Wales as a republic.
First and Second Protectorate parliaments existence 1654-1658
The seat existed for the June 1654 to January 1655 parliament and for that following. The East Riding electorate summoned four members simultaneously.| No. | Summoned | Elected | Assembled | Dissolved | Sessions | Speaker | Note |
| 1st | 1 June 1654 | 1654 | 3 September 1654 | 22 January 1655 | 1 | William Lenthall | 1st Protectorate Parliament |
| 2nd | 10 July 1656 | 1656 | 17 September 1656 | 4 February 1658 | 2 | Thomas Widdrington | 2nd Protectorate Parliament |
| 2nd | 10 July 1656 | 1656 | 17 September 1656 | 4 February 1658 | 2 | Bulstrode Whitelocke | 2nd Protectorate Parliament |
| 3rd | 9 December 1658 | 1658/59 | 27 January 1659 | 22 April 1659 | 1 | Chaloner Chute | 3rd Protectorate Parliament |
| 3rd | 9 December 1658 | 1658/59 | 27 January 1659 | 22 April 1659 | 1 | Lislebone Long | 3rd Protectorate Parliament |
| 3rd | 9 December 1658 | 1658/59 | 27 January 1659 | 22 April 1659 | 1 | Thomas Bampfylde | 3rd Protectorate Parliament |
Creation and abolition
The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 as the four-seat Yorkshire was divided in three, two-seat divisions for the 1832 general election. The divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. It was replaced for the 1885 general election by single-member seats: Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire.Summary of results
Candidates were elected unopposed at most of the elections throughout its existence; contested elections took place in 1837, 1868 and 1880. In these contests two Conservative candidates defeated a single Whig or Liberal.Members of Parliament
MPs 1654–1658 (Protectorate Parliaments)
MPs 1832–1885
Election results
Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s
Elections in the 1850s
Broadley's death caused a by-election.Duncombe was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, requiring a by-election.