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Andover was the name of a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1295 to 1307, and again from 1586, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It was a parliamentary borough in Hampshire, represented by two Members of Parliament until 1868, and by one member from 1868 to 1885. The name was then transferred to a county constituency electing one MP from 1885 until 1918.

History

The parliamentary borough of Andover, in the county of Hampshire (or as it was still sometimes known before about the eighteenth centuries, Southamptonshire), sent MPs to the parliaments of 1295 and 1302–1307. It was re-enfranchised as a two-member constituency in the reign of Elizabeth I of England. It elected MPs regularly from 1586.

The House of Commons decided, in 1689, that the elective franchise for the seat was limited to the twenty four members of the Andover corporation and not the freemen of the borough. This ruling was confirmed after another disputed election in 1727. Matthew Skinner and Abel Kettleby received the most votes, from many householders, but James Brudenell and Charles Colyear (Viscount Milsington) were declared elected for winning the most support from corporation members. Under the Reform Act 1832 the electorate was expanded by allowing householders, whose property was valued at £10 or more, to vote. There were 246 registered electors in 1832.

From the 1868 United Kingdom general election the constituency returned one member. The electorate was further extended, in 1868, to 775 registered electors.

Apart from the period between 1653 and 1658, Andover continued to be represented as a borough constituency until that was abolished in 1885. Immediately thereafter, from the 1885 United Kingdom general election, the town of Andover was combined with surrounding rural territory to form a county division of Hampshire, known formally as the Western or Andover division. The registered electorate for the expanded seat was 9,175 in 1885, and 9,460 in 1901.

The constituency was abolished in 1918, when the Municipal Borough of Andover and Andover Rural District were included in the Basingstoke seat.

Boundaries

The constituency was based on the northern Hampshire town of Andover.

The Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 (2 & 3 William IV, c. 64) defined the seat as "the respective parishes of Andover and Knights Enham, and the tithing of Foxcot". The boundaries were left unaltered, until the end of the borough constituency in 1885.

Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the county division was defined as including the Sessional Divisions of Andover, and Kingsclere; with parts of the Sessional Divisions of Winchester, Romsey, and Basingstoke, and the Municipal Boroughs of Andover and Winchester, and the parish of Coombe, Hampshire in the Hungerford Sessional Division of Berkshire.

Members of Parliament

The Roman numerals after some names are to distinguish different members for this constituency, with the same name. It is not suggested this use of Roman numerals was applied at the time.

• In this section by-elections are indicated by an asterisk after the date.

Parliament of England 1586-1707 (two members)

As there were sometimes significant gaps between Parliaments held in this period, the dates of first assembly and dissolution are given. Where the name of the member has not yet been ascertained or (before 1558) is not recorded in a surviving document, the entry unknown is entered in the table.

1707–1868 (two members)

• In this sub-section Liberal MPs elected before the formal founding of the Liberal Party, in 1859, are indicated by a + symbol after the party name.

1868-1918 (one member)

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1850s

Elections in the 1860s

Cubitt resigned to contest the 1861 by-election at City of London, causing a by-election.

Coles' death caused a by-election.

Cubitt's death caused a by-election.

Humphery resigned, causing a by-election.

Karslake was appointed Attorney General for England and Wales, requiring a by-election.

The seat was reduced to one member.

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

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;

• Conservative: Walter Faber
• Liberal:

Notes

1. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1558–1603). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
2. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1604–1629). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
3. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1640–1660). Retrieved 27 March 2019.(currently unavailable )
4. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1660–1690). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
5. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1690–1715). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
6. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1715–1754). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
7. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1754–1790). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
8. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1790–1820). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
9. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1820–1832). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
10. "Election intelligence". The Times. No. 36544. London. 27 August 1901. p. 4.
11. Rainsford died April 1641
12. On petition, Vernon's election was declared void. The returning officer had given his casting vote to Vernon after he tied in votes with Sir William Waller, but Waller would have won had one of his supporters not been prevented from voting (on the grounds that he had not been sworn in as a burgess). After Vernon's election was declared void without a division, the House voted 107-102 to recognise Waller as duly elected.
13. Date on which the House of Commons resolved that Henry Vernon's election in 1641 was void and that Waller was duly elected
14. Waller was disabled from membership in January 1648 at the instigation of the army, but this order was revoked in June 1648; he was excluded permanently in Pride's Purge, December 1648
15. Date of Pride's Purge, which converted the Long Parliament into the Rump Parliament.
16. Date when Oliver Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament by force.
17. Date when the members of the nominated or Barebones Parliament were selected. Andover was not represented in this body, except as part of Hampshire.
18. The Rump Parliament was recalled and subsequently Pride's Purge was reversed, allowing the full Long Parliament to meet until it agreed to dissolve itself.
19. Trott died 14 July 1672
20. Lucy died 19 September 1678
21. Powlett died c. August 1695. Seat vacant at the dissolution.
22. On petition, Shepheard was "discharged from membership" on 19 March 1701. No new writ was issued and the seat was vacant at the dissolution.
23. The MPs of the last Parliament of England and 45 members co-opted from the former Parliament of Scotland, became the House of Commons of the 1st Parliament of Great Britain which assembled on 23 October 1707 (see below for the members in that Parliament).
24. Co-opted, not elected, to the Parliament of Great Britain
25. Crowley died 7 October 1713
26. Milsington succeeded as the 2nd Earl of Portmore in January 1730.
27. Styled Viscount Lymington from 11 October 1743; died 19 November 1749.
28. Stooks Smith suggests that Thomas Assheton Smith I's term was interrupted by Henry Smith, in the 1812-18 Parliament. However Rayment does not mention such an additional MP. T. A. Smith resigned 1821
29. ^ Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) . Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 123–124. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
30. "Londonderry Sentinel". 14 February 1835. p. 1. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
31. Dodd, Charles R. (1843). The Parliamentary Companion, for 1843. London: Whittaker & Co. p. 151. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via Google Bookes.
32. Cubitt resigned in 1861, to contest a City of London by-election (which he lost).
33. Coles died 23 November 1862.
34. Cubitt died 28 October 1863.
35. Humphery resigned, 1867.
36. F. W. S. Craig classified Whig, Radical and similar candidates, as Liberals from 1832. Other sources may classify all these groups as Whigs. The term Liberal gradually developed as a description for the Whigs and allies, until the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 United Kingdom general election.
37. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
38. "Results of Contested Elections". Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser. 3 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
39. "The Elections". Western Times. 7 August 1847. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
40. "Salisbury and Winchester Journal". 31 July 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
41. "Andover Election". The Globe. 10 July 1852. p. 3. Retrieved 6 April 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
42. "Andover". Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette. 14 April 1859. p. 3. Retrieved 6 April 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
43. "Andover Election". Hertford Mercury and Reformer. 21 November 1863. p. 3. Retrieved 26 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
44. ^ "Election intelligence". The Times. No. 36545. London. 28 August 1901. p. 4.
45. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig

References

• British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)
• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
• Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
• J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• The House of Commons 1690-1715, by Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and D.W. Hayton (Cambridge University Press 2002)
• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 2)

• Parliamentary constituencies in Hampshire (historic)
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1295
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918
• Andover, Hampshire