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Helston (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Helston Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1298 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | 1298–1832: two 1832–1885: one |
Helston was a parliamentary borough centred on the small town of Helston in Cornwall.
It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1832 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, it was abolished with effect from the 1885 general election.
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- 1572: William Killigrew
- 1597: William Cooke
- 1601: William Twysden
- 1628-1629: Sidney Godolphin
- 1640: Sidney Godolphin
- 1640: William Godolphin
- 1640-1643: Sidney Godolphin (Royalist) - killed in battle, February 1643
- 1640-1644: Francis Godolphin (Royalist) - disabled to sit, January 1644
- 1645(?)-1648: John Penrose - not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge, December 1648
- 1645(?)-1648: John Thomas - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648
Helston was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
- 1659: Thomas Juxon
Long Parliament (restored)
- 1659-1660: ?
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | Representation reduced to one member | ||
| 1832 | Sackville Walter Lane-Fox | Conservative | |
| 1835 | Lord James Townshend | Conservative | |
| 1837 | George John Frederick Sackville, Viscount Cantelupe | Conservative | |
| 1840 | John Basset | Conservative | |
| 1841 | Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan | Conservative | |
| 1857 | Charles Trueman | Liberal | |
| 1859 | John Hope Rogers | Conservative | |
| 1865 | Adolphus William Young | Liberal | |
| 1866[4] | Robert Campbell | Liberal | |
| Sir William Baliol Brett | Conservative | ||
| 1868 | Adolphus William Young | Liberal | |
| 1880 | William Napleton Molesworth-St.Aubyn | Conservative | |
| 1885 | constituency abolished | ||
Notes
- ^ Styled Viscount Rialton from 1706
- ^ Sir Stephen Lushington from 1791
- ^ Vansittart was also elected for Old Sarum, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Helston
- ^ At the Helston by-election, 1866, both candidates polled exactly the same number of votes. The mayor, as returning officer, gave his casting vote for the Liberal candidate Robert Campbell. As this vote was given after four o'clock, however, an appeal was lodged, and the House of Commons declared that the returning officer had no right to a casting vote, and that he should have returned the names of both tied candidates. On scrutiny of the votes, one vote was struck off Campbell's total, and the Conservative candidate Sir William Baliol Brett declared duly elected.
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- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- 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)
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
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