The part of the Municipal Borough of Sudbury in the county of Suffolk;
The Sessional Divisions of Boxford, Cosford, Melford, and Risbridge; and
Parts of the Sessional Divisions of Newmarket, and Thingoe and Thedwestry.[7]
The county division was formed from part of the abolished Western Division and included the towns of Sudbury, Hadleigh and Haverhill.
1918–1950
The Municipal Borough of Sudbury;
The Urban Districts of Glemsford, Hadleigh, and Haverhill;
The Rural Districts of Clare, Cosford, and Melford; and
Parts of the Rural Districts of Moulton and Thingoe.[8]
Marginal changes to boundaries.
On abolition, western and northern parts, including Haverhill, transferred to Bury St Edmunds. Central, southern and western parts, including Sudbury and Hadleigh, formed part of the new county constituency of Sudbury and Woodbridge.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1559–1640
MPs 1640–1844
MPs 1885–1950
Elections
Elections in the 1830s
Taylor's death caused a by-election.
Both candidates received the same number of votes, but the mayor's vote was added in favour of Barnes
After an election petition was lodged, a Royal Commission found proof of extensive bribery and the writ was suspended in 1844. The constituency was absorbed into West Suffolk.
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Heaton-Armstrong
Elections in the 1910s
Hirst
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 and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
* some records describe Hicks as an 'Agriculture' candidate
Elections in the 1920s
compared to combined 1922 Liberal vote.
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1940s
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;
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^M.C. Rintoul (1993). Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction. Taylor & Francis. p. 872. ISBN 9780415059992.
^Great Britain, Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. The public general acts. unknown library. Proprietors of the Law Journal Reports, 1884.
^S., Craig, Fred W. (1972). Boundaries of parliamentary constituencies 1885–1972;. Chichester: Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0900178094. OCLC 539011.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Created a baronet, July 1641
^ a bPaula Watson (1983). "Sudbury". In Henning, B. D. (ed.). The House of Commons 1660-1690. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ a b c d e f g hD. W. Hayton (2002). "Sudbury". In Hayton, David; Cruickshanks, Eveline; Handley, Stuart (eds.). The House of Commons 1690-1715. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^Created a baronet, September 1772
^Created a baronet, May 1774
^On petition, the result of the election of 1774 was overturned: Fonnereau and Crespigny were declared not to have been duly elected and their opponents, Blake and Hanmer, were seated in their place
^On petition, Crespigny was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Marriott was seated in his place
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah aiStooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. pp. 61–63. Retrieved 12 December 2018 – via Google Books.
^Elected on the casting vote of the returning officer after a tie in votes. His opponent petitioned against the decision, denying that the returning officer was entitled to a casting vote, but Parliament was dissolved before the issue had been settled.
^The Spectator, Volume 7. F. C. Westley. 1834. p. 702. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
^The Spectator, Volume 10. F. C. Westley. 1837. p. 651. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
^Sperling, Charles Frederick Denne (1896). A short history of the borough of Sudbury, in the county of Suffolk, compiled from materials collected by W.W. Hodson. Sudbury: Sudbury, Printed by B.R. Marten. pp. 162, 259. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
^"General Intelligence". Coventry Standard. 24 June 1853. p. 2. Retrieved 13 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^The 1841 election was declared void on petition and a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate, which eventually led to the disfranchisement of the constituency
^ a b"Electoral Decisions". Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser. 3 July 1841. p. 24. Retrieved 12 December 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ a bMargaret Escott (2009). "Sudbury". In Fisher, David (ed.). The House of Commons 1820-1832. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ a b c d e f g hCraig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
^ a b c d e f g hCraig, F. W. S., ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918. London: Macmillan Press. p. 394. ISBN 9781349022984.
^‘WELLER-POLEY, Thomas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 22 Sept 2017
^Cambridge Independent Press 16 Jan 1914
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