Sentence examples for county constituency from inspiring English sources

The northern English county constituency of Yorkshire had 15,000 voters in 1741.

In 1768, deeply in debt, he returned and was elected MP for the county of Middlesex, the most populous county constituency in England.

To be eligible for election as an MP, a man had to possess land worth £600 per annum if he was representing a county constituency and worth £300 per annum in the case of a borough constituency.

Mr Brown told MPs: "I beg to move that Mr Speaker do issue his warrant to the clerk of the crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a member to serve in this present Parliament for the county constituency of Newport West in the room of Paul Flynn deceased". Speaker John Bercow repeated the request, which MPs approved.

The Peterborough division became a county constituency in 1950.

The parish is part of the North Somerset county constituency of the House of Commons.

But the immediate cause is the fading of Labour in the southern county constituencies of England.

On top of a base rate of £5,483, candidates were allowed 6.2p per elector in county constituencies and 4.6p per elector in borough constituencies.

Eighty of these were elected by the 40 county constituencies; 196 smaller constituencies called boroughs returned two MPs each, and two other boroughs, including London, the capital city, returned four MPs each.

The election of two knights from every shire and two burgesses from the towns helped establish the two-member county constituencies that endured until the 20th Century.

During the short campaign, an official candidate may spend £8,700, plus 9p per voter in county constituencies and 6p per voter in borough seats.