Number of voters: about 3000
| Date | Candidate | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 26 June 1790 | LORD GEORGE AUGUSTUS CAVENDISH | |
| EDWARD MILLER MUNDY | ||
| 22 May 1794 | LORD JOHN CAVENDISH vice Cavendish, deceased | |
| 2 June 1796 | LORD JOHN CAVENDISH | |
| EDWARD MILLER MUNDY | ||
| 12 Jan. 1797 | LORD GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY CAVENDISH vice Cavendish, deceased | |
| 15 July 1802 | LORD GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY CAVENDISH | |
| EDWARD MILLER MUNDY | ||
| 10 Nov. 1806 | LORD GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY CAVENDISH | |
| EDWARD MILLER MUNDY | ||
| 12 May 1807 | LORD GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY CAVENDISH | |
| EDWARD MILLER MUNDY | ||
| 19 Oct. 1812 | LORD GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY CAVENDISH | |
| EDWARD MILLER MUNDY | ||
| 25 June 1818 | LORD GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY CAVENDISH | |
| EDWARD MILLER MUNDY |
There was no contest between 1768 and 1820. The dukes of Devonshire returned one Member, invariably a member of the Cavendish family, as a Whig, and the gentry returned the other, during this period a Mundy of Shipley, as an independent. In February 1795 Thomas Coutts approached a representative of the duke in case Lord John Cavendish wished to ‘quit’, suggesting his son-in-law (Sir) Francis Burdett ‘as a locum tenens in the minority of his Grace’s own immediate representatives’, guaranteeing his attachment to the family. Nothing came of this—Burdett himself was not ambitious of it.1M. W. Patterson, Sir Francis Burdett, i. 37. There was popular unrest in the industrial areas in the last decade of the period, but it had no electoral repercussions, Lord George Cavendish insisting that reports of it were exaggerated.2Parl. Deb. xxxv. 821; xli. 1161.