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Election Results (Parliament of Great Britain) 1715-1800

General Election 24 January 1715: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Hon. Edward Wortley-Montagu Unopposed N/A N/A
Tory Sir Thomas Crosse, Bt Unopposed N/A N/A
General Election 27 March 1722: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Archibald Hutcheson 4,024 32.74 N/A
Tory John Cotton 3,853 31.35 N/A
Whig William Lowndes 2,215 18.02 N/A
Whig Sir Thomas Crosse, Bt 2,197 17.88 N/A
  • 1st Baron Molesworth (W) was proposed but withdrew before the poll.
  • Election declared void 6 November 1722.
By-Election 3 December 1722: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Charles Montagu 4,835 30.87 +30.87
Whig 1st Baron Carpenter 4,515 28.83 +28.83
Tory John Cotton 3,485 22.25 -9.10
Tory Sir Thomas Clarges 2,827 18.05 +18.05
General Election 15 August 1727: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Lord Charles Cavendish Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig William Clayton Unopposed N/A N/A
General Election 22 April 1734: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Sir Charles Wager Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig William Clayton Unopposed N/A N/A
  • Clayton created an Irish peer as 1st Baron Sundon 2 June 1735
General Election 8 May 1741: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Sir Charles Wager 3,686 26.96 N/A
Whig 1st Baron Sundon 3,533 25.84 N/A
Tory Edward Vernon 3,290 24.07 N/A
Tory Charles Edwin 3,161 23.12 N/A
  • Election declared void 22 December 1741.
By-Election 31 December 1741: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Viscount Perceval Unopposed N/A N/A
Tory Charles Edwin Unopposed N/A N/A
General Election 1 July 1747: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Viscount Trentham 2,873 42.32 N/A
Whig Sir Peter Warren 2,858 42.10 N/A
Tory Sir Thomas Clarges 544 8.01 N/A
Tory Sir Thomas Dyke 514 7.57 N/A
  • Trentham appointed a Lord of the Admiralty
By-Election 15 May 1750: Westminster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Viscount Trentham 4,811 50.83 +8.51
Tory Sir George Vandeput 4,654 49.17 +49.17
Majority 157 1.66 N/A
Whig hold Swing N/A
  • After a scrutiny the member returned was unchanged and vote totals were amended to Trentham 4,103; Vandeput 3,933.
  • Death of Warren 29 July 1752
By-Election 16 January 1753: Westminster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Hon. Edward Cornwallis Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig hold Swing N/A
General Election 20 April 1754: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Non Partisan Hon. Edward Cornwallis 3,385 48.09 N/A
Non Partisan Sir John Crosse, Bt 3,184 45.23 N/A
Non Partisan James Edward Oglethorpe 261 3.71 N/A
Non Partisan Earl of Middlesex 209 2.97 N/A
General Election 25 March 1761: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Non Partisan Hon. Edward Cornwallis Unopposed N/A N/A
Non Partisan Viscount Pulteney Unopposed N/A N/A
  • Cornwallis appointed Governor of Gibraltar
By-Election 27 April 1762: Westminster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Non Partisan Hon. Edwin Sandys Unopposed N/A N/A
Non Partisan hold Swing N/A
  • Death of Pulteney 11 February 1763
By-Election 15 March 1763: Westminster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Non Partisan Baron Warkworth Unopposed N/A N/A
Non Partisan hold Swing N/A
  • Lord Warkworth became known by the courtesy title of Earl Percy from 1766, when his father was advanced in the peerage from Earl to Duke of Northumberland
General Election 16 March 1768: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Non Partisan Hon. Edwin Sandys Unopposed N/A N/A
Non Partisan Earl Percy Unopposed N/A N/A
  • Succession of Sandys as 2nd Baron Sandys 21 April 1770
By-Election 30 April 1770: Westminster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Non Partisan Sir Robert Bernard, Bt Unopposed N/A N/A
Non Partisan hold Swing N/A
General Election 26 October 1774: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Non Partisan Earl Percy 4,994 33.81 N/A
Non Partisan Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton 4,774 32.32 N/A
Non Partisan 2nd Viscount Mountmorres 2,531 17.13 N/A
Non Partisan Viscount Mahon 2,342 15.86 N/A
Non Partisan Humphrey Cotes 130 0.88 N/A
  • Succession of Percy to his mother's title, as 3rd Baron Percy on 5 December 1776
By-Election 17 December 1776: Westminster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Non Partisan Viscount Petersham Unopposed N/A N/A
Non Partisan hold Swing N/A
  • Succession of Petersham as 3rd Earl of Harrington 1 April 1779
By-Election 20 April 1779: Westminster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Non Partisan Viscount Malden Unopposed N/A N/A
Non Partisan hold Swing N/A
  • Pelham-Clinton was known by the courtesy title of Earl of Lincoln, following the death of his brother in 1779
General Election 10 October 1780: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Sir George Brydges Rodney, Bt 4,994 35.60 +35.60
Whig Hon. Charles James Fox 4,878 34.77 +34.77
Tory Earl of Lincoln 4,157 29.63 -2.69
  • Note: (1780): Poll 21 days; 9,136 voted; party labels. (Source: Stooks Smith)
  • Appointment of Fox as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 27 March 1782
By-Election 3 April 1782: Westminster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Rt Hon. Charles James Fox Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig hold Swing N/A
  • Creation of Rodney as 1st Baron Rodney 19 June 1782
By-Election 12 June 1782: Westminster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Sir Cecil Wray, Bt Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig hold Swing N/A
  • Appointment of Fox as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 2 April 1783
By-Election 7 April 1783: Westminster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Rt Hon. Charles James Fox Unopposed N/A N/A
Whig hold Swing N/A
General Election 17 May 1784: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory 1st Baron Hood 6,588 35.40 +35.40
Whig Rt Hon. Charles James Fox 6,126 32.92 -1.85
Whig Sir Cecil Wray, Bt 5,895 31.68 +31.68
  • Note (1784): Poll 40 days; 12,301 voted. After a scrutiny the members returned were unchanged and vote totals were amended to the figures as above. Original votes Hood 6,694; Fox 6,234; Wray 5,998. (Source: Stooks Smith)
  • Hood and Fox were declared elected 4 March 1785
  • Appointment of Hood as a Commissioner of the Admiralty 16 July 1788
By-Election 4 August 1788: Westminster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Lord John Townshend 6,392 53.44 +53.44
Tory 1st Baron Hood 5,569 46.56 +11.16
Majority 823 6.88 N/A
Whig gain from Tory Swing N/A
  • Note (1788): Poll 15 days. (Source: Stooks Smith)
General Election 2 July 1790: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Rt Hon. Charles James Fox 3,516 41.80 +8.88
Tory 1st Baron Hood 3,217 38.24 +2.84
Whig John Horne Tooke 1,679 19.96 +19.96
  • Note (1790): Poll 15 days. Mr Tooke proposed himself. (Source: Stooks Smith)
General Election 13 June 1796: Westminster (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Rt Hon. Charles James Fox 5,160 40.33 -1.47
Tory Sir Alan Gardner, Bt 4,814 37.63 -0.61
Whig John Horne Tooke 2,819 22.04 +2.08
  • Expulsion of Fox from the Privy Council 9 May 1798
  • Creation of Gardner as an Irish peer, 1st Baron Gardner 29 December 1800

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