South Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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South Warwickshire
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
County	Warwickshire
1832–1885
Seats	Two
Created from	Warwickshire
Replaced by	Rugby Stratford-on-Avon

South Warwickshire was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Warwickshire in England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created under the Reform Act 1832, when the former Warwickshire constituency was divided into two new divisions: North Warwickshire and South Warwickshire.

South Warwickshire was itself abolished in 1885, when the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 replaced it with four new single-member constituencies: Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Tamworth.

1832–1885: The Hundreds of Barlichway and Kington, and the Kenilworth and Southam Divisions of the Hundred of Knightlow.

Election		1st Party		2nd Party
1832	Sir Grey Skipwith, Bt	Whig	Sir George Philips, Bt	Whig
1835	Sir John Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative	Edward Sheldon	Radical
1836 by-election	Sir John Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative	Evelyn Shirley	Conservative
1845 by-election	Lord Brooke	Conservative	Evelyn Shirley	Conservative
1849 by-election	Lord Brooke	Conservative	Lord Guernsey	Conservative
1853 by-election	Evelyn Shirley	Conservative	Lord Guernsey	Conservative
1857			Edward Bolton King	Whig
1859			Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative
1865	Henry Christopher Wise	Conservative	Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative
1868	Henry Christopher Wise	Conservative	John Hardy	Conservative
1874	Hugh Seymour	Conservative	Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Bt	Conservative
1880	Hon. Gilbert Leigh	Liberal
1884 by-election	Sampson Lloyd	Conservative
constituency abolished

Sheldon's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 1 July 1836: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Evelyn Shirley	1,885	58.1
	Whig	Grey Skipwith	1,360	41.9
Majority			525	16.2
Turnout			3,245	81.2
Registered electors			3,997
	Conservative gain from Radical

General election 1837: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Mordaunt	Unopposed
	Conservative	Evelyn Shirley	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,304
	Conservative hold
	Conservative gain from Radical

Mordaunt's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 5 November 1845: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Greville	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Shirley resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

By-election, 7 June 1849: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Heneage Finch	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Greville succeeded to the peerage, becoming 4th Earl of Warwick and causing a by-election.

By-election, 3 December 1853: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Evelyn Shirley	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election 1859: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Evelyn Shirley	Unopposed
	Conservative	Charles Mordaunt	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,470
	Conservative hold
	Conservative gain from Liberal

General election 1865: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Christopher Wise	1,585	35.8	*N/A*
	Conservative	Charles Mordaunt	1,517	34.3	*N/A*
	Liberal	Viscount Duncan	1,321	29.9	New
Majority			196	4.4	N/A
Turnout			2,872 (est)	81.7 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			3,517
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1868: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Christopher Wise	2,581	25.8	−10.0
	Conservative	John Hardy	2,501	25.0	−9.3
	Liberal	Robert Hamilton	2,472	24.7	+9.7
	Liberal	Edward Villiers	2,453	24.5	+9.5
Majority			29	0.3	−4.1
Turnout			5,004 (est)	80.6 (est)	−1.1
Registered electors			6,205
	Conservative hold		Swing	−9.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	−9.5

General election 1874: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Earl of Yarmouth	2,832	36.3	+10.5
	Conservative	John Eardley-Wilmot	2,801	35.9	+10.9
	Liberal	Robert Hamilton	2,170	27.8	−21.4
Majority			631	8.1	+7.8
Turnout			4,987 (est)	78.7 (est)	−1.9
Registered electors			6,340
	Conservative hold		Swing	+10.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+10.8

Seymour was appointed Comptroller of the Household, causing a by-election.

By-election, 21 Feb 1879: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hugh Seymour	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election 1880: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Eardley-Wilmot	2,644	34.3	−1.6
	Liberal	Gilbert Leigh	2,550	33.1	+5.3
	Conservative	Hugh Seymour	2,507	32.6	−3.7
Turnout			5,123 (est)	79.7 (est)	+1.0
Registered electors			6,429
Majority			94	1.2	−6.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.7
Majority			43	0.5	N/A
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+3.7

Leigh's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 10 Nov 1884: South Warwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sampson Lloyd	3,095	61.7	−5.2
	Liberal	William Compton	1,919	38.3	+5.2
Majority			1,176	23.4	N/A
Turnout			5,014	76.1	−3.6
Registered electors			6,590
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	−5.2

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