East Sussex (UK Parliament constituency)

East Sussex
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1832–1885
Number of members	two
Replaced by	Rye Eastbourne East Grinstead Lewes
Created from	Sussex

East Sussex (formally the Eastern division of Sussex) was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Sussex, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.

It was created under the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, when the existing Sussex constituency was divided into two. It consisted of the rapes of Lewes, Pevensey and Hastings, an area broadly similar to but not identical with the modern county of East Sussex. The "place of election", where nominations were taken and the result declared, was Lewes.

East Sussex was abolished for the 1885 general election, being divided between four new single-member county constituencies, Rye, Eastbourne, East Grinstead and Lewes. (Lewes and Rye also absorbed the voters from the abolished boroughs of the same names.)

Members of Parliament

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Hon. Charles Cavendish	Whig		Herbert Barrett Curteis	Whig
1837					George Darby	Conservative
1841		Augustus Fuller	Conservative
1846 by-election					Charles Frewen	Conservative
March 1857 by-election					Viscount Pevensey	Conservative
April 1857		John George Dodson	Whig
1859			Liberal
1865					Lord Edward Cavendish	Liberal
1868					George Burrow Gregory	Conservative
1874		Montagu Scott	Conservative
1885	constituency abolished

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)
• F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)