Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency)

Ashburton (also known as Mid Devon) was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament at Westminster, for the Parliaments of 1295 and 1407, and regularly from 1640 until it was abolished for the 1868 general election. It was one of three Devon borough constituencies newly enfranchised (or re-enfranchised after a gap of centuries) in the Long Parliament. It returned two Members of Parliament until the 1832 general election when the number was reduced to one MP.

From the 1885 general election Ashburton was revived as a county division of Devon. It returned one member until it was abolished from the 1918 general election.

1885-1918
The Sessional Divisions of Crockernwell and Teignbridge.

Ashburton borough 1398–1868

 * 1407 Richard Hurston, Walter Denys

Ashburton re-enfranchised by Parliament in Nov 1640

Elections in the 1830s
Arbuthnot resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1840s
Jardine's death caused a by-election.

Elections in the 1880s




Elections in the 1910s


General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
 * Unionist: Ernest Morrison-Bell
 * Liberal: