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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801 1885 & 1918–1983

Cambridgeshire is a former Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. It was a constituency represented by two Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then in the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832, when its representation was increased to three until it was abolished in 1885. It was reconstituted as a single member seat in 1918 and abolished once again in 1983.

The county was represented by two Knights of the Shire until 1832, when the number of members was increased to three by the Great Reform Act. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the constituency was abolished and was divided into three single member constituencies: the Western or Chesterton Division, the Eastern or Newmarket Division and the Northern or Wisbech Division. Under the Local Government Act 1888, the historic county of Cambridgeshire was divided between the administrative counties of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. When the parliamentary constituencies were next redistributed under the Representation of the People Act 1918, Cambridgeshire was re constituted as a single member Parliamentary County, largely formed from combining the Chesterton Division (excluding areas that were now part of the expanded Municipal Borough of Cambridge) and the Newmarket Division (excluding the city of Ely which was included in the Parliamentary County of Isle of Ely). The administrative counties of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely had been recombined in 1965 and Cambridgeshire was further expanded in 1974 to include Huntingdon and Peterborough under the Local Government Act 1972. Under the subsequent redistribution of seats, which did not come into effect until the 1983 general election, Cambridgeshire was abolished as a county constituency, forming the bulk of the new constituency of South East Cambridgeshire and the majority of South West Cambridgeshire.

1290–1653, 1658 1885: The historic county of Cambridgeshire. (Although Cambridgeshire contained the borough of Cambridge, which elected two MPs in its own right, this was not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election. In the elections of 1830 and 1831, about an eighth of the votes cast for the county came from within Cambridge itself. The city of Ely also elected its own MPs in 1295.) 1654–1658: The historic county was divided for the First and the Second Protectorate Parliaments, between the two member Isle of Ely area and the four member constituency consisting of the rest of the county.

The administrative county of Cambridgeshire, excluding the Municipal Borough of Cambridge. There were minor boundary changes in 1950, when some of the constituency was transferred to the Cambridge seat, which was expanded to align with the Municipal Borough, and in 1974, to align with changes to the county boundary.

YearFirst memberSecond member 1372 William Papworth 1373 Henry English 1377 (Oct) Henry English 1381 William Papworth 1382 (May) William Papworth 1383 John Andrew 1383 (Oct) Henry English 1384 (Nov) Henry English 1386Sir William Papworth Thomas Hasilden I 1388 (Feb) Sir John Engaine Sir John Chalers 1429 William Alington of Bottisham 1431 Laurence Cheyne 1432 Laurence Cheyne Henry Somer 1433 William Alington of Horseheath 1435 Laurence Cheyne 1436 William Alington of Horseheath 1437 Gilbert Hore William Allington 1439/40 William AllingtonWilliam Cotton 1442 Laurence CheyneThomas Burgoyne 1445/46 John Ansty the youngerEdmund Ingeldesthorp 1447 William CottonJohn Moris 1449 (Feb) Sir John SayEdmund Ingeldesthorp 1449/50 (Nov) John CheyneThomas TynderneThomas Tynderne 1455/56 John AnstyThomas Lockton 1459 1460/61 1461/62 John Ansty 1529Robert Peyton Giles Alington 1562–1563 Roger North, ennobled and repl. 1566 by Robert Peyton John Hutton Charles Yorke Tory1859 Liberal1863 by electionLord George Manners Conservative1865Viscount Royston ConservativeRichard Young Liberal1868Hon. Sir Henry Brand LiberalJanuary 1874 by electionHon. Eliot Yorke ConservativeOctober 1874 by electionBenjamin Rodwell Conservative1879 by electionEdward Hicks Conservative1881 by electionJames Redfoord Bulwer Conservative1884 by electionArthur Thornhill Conservative 1885 Constituency abolished, Chesterton, Newmarket and Wisbech from 1885

ElectionMemberPartyChesterton and Newmarket prior to 19181918Hon. Edwin Samuel Montagu Liberal1922Harold Stannus Gray Unionist1923Richard Briscoe Unionist1945A. E. Stubbs Labour1950Gerald Howard Conservative1961 by electionFrancis Pym Conservative 1983 Constituency abolished, SE Cambs and SW Cambs from 1983

Caused by Brand's elevation to the peerage, becoming Viscount Hampden.