Whitehaven (UK Parliament constituency)
Whitehaven was a constituency centred on the town of Whitehaven in Cumberland, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1832 and renamed Copeland at the 1983 general election. Boundaries. The boundaries were unaffected in 1885, under the second Great Reform agreed the previous year, its key limb of The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 not yet absorbing the bulk of the area of Egremont or 'the Western Division of Cumberland'. The latter mainly rural area, much larger than Whitehaven borough  which formed the existing seat, was added to the seat under the Representation of the People Act 1918. Elections. Elections in the 1850s. Hildyard's death caused a by-election. Elections in the 1870s. Cavendish-Bentinck was appointed Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces, causing a by-election. Elections in the 1890s. Cavendish-Bentinck's death caused a by-election.