South Somerset | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–1918 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | East Somerset and West Somerset |
Replaced by | Yeovil |
South Somerset was a single-member (MP) county constituency in Somerset for the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. As all single-member seats, its elections were by first past the post voting.
It was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the general election that year. The Act changed the county's representation to seven county and four borough seats, and abolished for the 1918 general election.
It's elections returned one Liberal, then another, covering its first 26 years; then returned a Conservative for its final seven years.
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