Beverley (UK Parliament constituency)

Beverley
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	East Riding of Yorkshire
1983–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Beverley and Holderness
Created from	Haltemprice
1950–1955
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	County constituency
Replaced by	Haltemprice and Howden
Created from	Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire
1563–1869
Number of members	Two
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	East Riding of Yorkshire
Created from	Yorkshire
1295–1306
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Yorkshire

Beverley has been the name of a parliamentary constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire for three separate periods. From medieval times until 1869, it was a parliamentary borough, consisting solely of the market town of Beverley, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The name was revived for a single-member county constituency created in 1950, but abolished in 1955, and again between the 1983 and 1997 general elections, after which the Beverley constituency was largely incorporated into the new Beverley and Holderness constituency.

Beverley was first represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, but after 1306 it did not elect members again until 1563. Thereafter it maintained two members continuously until being disfranchised in 1870. The borough consisted of the three parishes of the town of Beverley, and by 1831 had a population of 7,432 and 1,928 houses. The right of election was vested not in the population as a whole, but in the of the borough, whether resident or not; at the contested election of 1826, 2,276 votes were cast. The town was of a sufficient size for the borough to retain its two members in the Great Reform Act of 1832, although its boundaries were slightly extended to include some outlying fringes, increasing the population by roughly 800.

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