Parliamentary Constituencies in Cornwall: Parliamentary Constituencies in Cornwall (Historic), St Ives, Liskeard, Bodmin, Truro, Grampound

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall (historic), St Ives, Liskeard, Bodmin, Truro, Grampound, West Looe, Penryn, Mitchell, Helston, Bossiney, Parliamentary representation from Cornwall, Launceston, Lostwithiel, Camelford, East Looe, North Cornwall, Tregony, Saltash, St Germans, Newport, St Mawes, Callington, Fowey, South East Cornwall, Penryn and Falmouth, Cornish rotten boroughs, Falmouth and Camborne, Truro and St Austell, List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall, West Cornwall, Camborne and Redruth, St Austell and Newquay, Truro and Falmouth. Excerpt: St. Ives is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. St Ives has elected MPs to every Parliament since 1558, except for a brief period during the Protectorate. It was originally a parliamentary borough, and returned two MPs until the Great Reform Act of 1832, when its representation was cut to a single member. In 1885 the borough was abolished, but the St Ives name was transferred to the surrounding county constituency. The borough established under Queen Mary consisted of the parish of St Ives in western Cornwall, a seaport and market town in which the main economic interests were fishing and the export of ores mined nearby. In 1831, the population of the borough was 4,776, and contained 1,002 houses. The franchise was initially restricted to the town corporation, but after a judgment in a disputed election in 1702, the right to vote was exercised by all inhabitants paying scot and lot; in the early 19th century this amounted to a little over 300 voters. This was a wide franchise for the period, and taken with the reasonable size of the town meant that St Ives was one of the few boroughs in Cornwall that could ...