Background Information
Constituency business
Date Candidate Votes
10 Dec. 1832 T.L. HODGES (Lib)
3,364
T. RIDER (Lib)
3,100
Sir W.R.P. Geary, Bt. (Con)
2,518
6 Jan. 1835 SIR W.R.P. GEARY, Bt. (Con)
2,558
T.L. HODGES (Lib)
2,092
T. Rider (Lib)
2,007
24 July 1837 SIR W.R.P. GEARY, Bt. (Con)
3,584
T.L. HODGES (Lib)
3,334
Sir E. Filmer, Bt. (Con)
3,229
1 July 1838 SIR E. FILMER, Bt. (Con) Resignation of Geary
29 June 1841 SIR E. FILMER, Bt. (Con)
VISCOUNT MARSHAM (Con)
1 July 1845 T. AUSTEN (Con) Succession of Marsham to peerage: Earl of Romney
29 July 1847 SIR E. FILMER, Bt. (Con)
3,219
T.L. HODGES (Lib)
3,127
T. Austen (Con)
3,082
7 July 1852 SIR E. FILMER, Bt. (Con)
3,247
W.M. SMITH (Con)
3,193
T.L. Hodges (Lib)
2,652
27 Mar. 1857 C.W. MARTIN (Lib)
3,896
J. WHATMAN (Lib)
3,578
W.M. Smith (Con)
3,171
1 July 1857 C.W. MARTIN (Lib) Death of Filmer
3,557
Sir W.B. Riddell (Con)
3,149
28 Apr. 1859 VISCOUNT HOLMESDALE (Con)
3,769
SIR E. FILMER, Bt. (Con)
3,684
C.W. Martin (Lib)
3,584
J. Whatman (Lib)
3,460
11 July 1865 VISCOUNT HOLMESDALE (Con)
4,133
W.H. DYKE (Con)
4,054
Sir J. Lubbock, Bt. (Lib)
3,896
W. Angerstein (Lib)
3,861