West Sussex (UK Parliament constituency)

West Sussex
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1832–1885
Number of members	two
Replaced by	Chichester
Created from	Sussex

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.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Lord John Lennox	Whig		The Earl of Surrey	Whig
1841		The Earl of March	Conservative		Charles Wyndham	Conservative
1847					Richard Prime	Conservative
1854 by-election					Henry Wyndham	Conservative
1860 by-election		Walter Barttelot	Conservative
1869 by-election					The Earl of March	Conservative
1885	constituency abolished

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)