West Sussex (UK Parliament constituency)

West Sussex (formally the Western division of Sussex) was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Sussex, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.

It was created under the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, and abolished for the 1885 general election.

Boundaries
1832–1885: The Rapes of Arundel, Bramber and Chichester.

Elections in the 1840s
Wyndham resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1850s
Prime resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

Gordon-Lennox was appointed President of the Poor Law Board, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1860s
Gordon-Lennox succeeded to the peerage, becoming 6th Duke of Richmond and causing a by-election.

Wyndham succeeded to the peerage, becoming 2nd Baron Leconfield and causing a by-election.