List of MPs elected in the 1796 British general election facts for kids
MPs elected in the 1796 British general election
| 16th Parliament | (1784) |
| 17th Parliament | (1790) |
| 18th Parliament | (1796) |
| 1st Parliament | (1801) |
| 2nd Parliament | (1802) |
This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1796, the 18th and final Parliament of Great Britain prior to the Union with Ireland to form the United Kingdom.
The candidates returned in contested elections are listed in the descending order of the number of votes received.
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| Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) | Alexander Allardyce | ||
| Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) | James Ferguson | Tory | |
| Abingdon (seat 1/1) | Thomas Metcalfe | Tory | |
| Aldborough (seat 1/2) | Trench Chiswell | Replaced by John Blackburn 1797 | |
| Aldborough (seat 2/2) | Charles Duncombe | ||
| Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) | Sir John Aubrey, Bt. | Whig | |
| Aldeburgh (seat 2/2) | Michael Angelo Taylor | Foxite Whig. Vacated seat and replaced by George Johnstone, May 1800 | |
| Amersham (seat 1/2) | Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt-Drake | Tory | |
| Amersham (seat 2/2) | Charles Drake Garrard | Tory | |
| Andover (seat 1/2) | Benjamin Lethieullier | Replaced by Thomas Assheton Smith I 1797 | |
| Andover (seat 2/2) | Coulson Wallop | ||
| Anglesey (seat 1/1) | Sir Arthur Paget | Whig | |
| Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) | John Anstruther | Foxite Whig Replaced by Alexander Campbell 1797 | |
| Appleby (seat 1/2) | John Tufton | Died and replaced by Robert Adair, June 1799 | |
| Appleby (seat 2/2) | John Courtenay | ||
| Argyllshire (seat 1/1) | Lord Frederick Campbell | Vacated seat and replaced by Lord John Campbell, Oct 1799 | |
| Arundel (seat 1/2) | Sir George Thomas, Bt. | Vacated seat. Replaced by Nisbet Balfour, July 1797 | |
| Arundel (seat 2/2) | James Greene | ||
| Ashburton (seat 1/2) | Robert Mackreth | ||
| Ashburton (seat 2/2) | Lawrence Palk | Chose to sit for Devon. Replaced by Walter Palk, Nov 1796 | |
| Aylesbury (seat 1/2) | Scrope Bernard | ||
| Aylesbury (seat 2/2) | Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake | ||
| Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) | John Campbell II | ||
| Ayrshire (seat 1/1) | Hugh Montgomerie | Ennobled June 1796. Replaced by William Fullarton | |
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| Banbury (seat 1/1) | Dudley Long North | ||
| Banffshire (seat 1/1) | Sir William Grant | Whig | |
| Barnstaple (seat 1/2) | John Clevland | ||
| Barnstaple (seat 2/2) | Richard Wilson I | ||
| Bath (seat 1/2) | Thomas Thynne | Ennobled Dec 1796. Replaced by Lord John Thynne | |
| Bath (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Pepper Arden | ||
| Beaumaris (seat 1/1) | The Lord Newborough | ||
| Bedford (seat 1/2) | Samuel Whitbread | ||
| Bedford (seat 2/2) | William MacDowall Colhoun | ||
| Bedfordshire (seat 1/2) | Hon. St Andrew St John | ||
| Bedfordshire (seat 2/2) | John Osborn | ||
| Bedwyn | See Great Bedwyn | ||
| Bere Alston (seat 1/2) | John Mitford | Vacated seat, July 1799. Replaced by Lord Lovaine | |
| Bere Alston (seat 2/2) | William Mitford | ||
| Berkshire (seat 1/2) | George Vansittart | ||
| Berkshire (seat 2/2) | Charles Dundas | ||
| Berwickshire (seat 1/1) | George Baillie | ||
| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) | The Earl of Tyrconnel | ||
| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) | John Callender | ||
| Beverley (seat 1/2) | William Tatton | Died and replaced by John Bacon Sawrey Morritt, Mar 1799 | |
| Beverley (seat 2/2) | Napier Christie Burton | ||
| Bewdley (seat 1/1) | Miles Peter Andrews | ||
| Bishops Castle (seat 1/2) | William Clive | ||
| Bishops Castle (seat 2/2) | Henry Strachey | ||
| Bletchingley (seat 1/2) | Sir Lionel Copley, Bt | Sat for Tregony and replaced by Benjamin Hobhouse, Feb 1797 | |
| Bletchingley (seat 2/2) | John Stein | ||
| Bodmin (seat 1/2) | Sir John Morshead, Bt | ||
| Bodmin (seat 2/2) | John Nesbitt | ||
| Boroughbridge (seat 1/2) | Sir John Scott | Ennobled, Aug 1799. Replaced by Hon. John Scott | |
| Boroughbridge (seat 2/2) | Francis Burdett | ||
| Bossiney (seat 1/2) | John Stuart-Wortley | Died Jan 1797. Replaced by Hon. James Stuart-Wortley | |
| Bossiney (seat 2/2) | John Lubbock | ||
| Boston (seat 1/2) | Thomas Fydell I | ||
| Boston (seat 2/2) | Viscount Milsington | ||
| Brackley (seat 1/2) | John William Egerton | ||
| Brackley (seat 2/2) | Samuel Haynes | ||
| Bramber (seat 1/2) | Charles Rouse-Boughton | Appointed to Crown office. Replaced by John Henry Newbolt, Feb 1800 | |
| Bramber (seat 2/2) | James Adams | ||
| Brecon (seat 1/1) | Sir Charles Gould Morgan | Chose to sit for Monmouthshire. Replaced by Sir Robert Salusbury, Bt, Nov 1796 | |
| Breconshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Charles Morgan, Bt | Previously known as Charles Gould. | |
| Bridgnorth (seat 1/2) | John Whitmore | ||
| Bridgnorth (seat 2/2) | Isaac Hawkins Browne | ||
| Bridgwater (seat 1/2) | George Pocock | ||
| Bridgwater (seat 2/2) | Jeffreys Allen | ||
| Bridport (seat 1/2) | George Barclay | ||
| Bridport (seat 2/2) | Charles Sturt | ||
| Bristol (seat 1/2) | The Lord Sheffield | ||
| Bristol (seat 2/2) | Charles Bragge | Later known as Charles Bathurst. | |
| Buckingham (seat 1/2) | Thomas Grenville | ||
| Buckingham (seat 2/2) | George Nugent | ||
| Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2) | James Grenville | Vacated seat and replaced Jun 1797 by Richard Temple Nugent Grenville, Earl Temple | |
| Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2) | Marquess of Titchfield | ||
| Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Davers, Bt | ||
| Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2) | Lord Hervey | ||
| Buteshire (seat 1/1) | Frederick Stuart | ||
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| Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Hon. Edward Paget | ||
| Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1) | Robert Williams | ||
| Caithness (seat 0/0) | Alternated with Buteshire. No representation in 1796 | ||
| Callington (seat 1/2) | Sir John Call, Bt. | ||
| Callington (seat 2/2) | Paul Orchard | ||
| Calne (seat 1/2) | Joseph Jekyll | ||
| Calne (seat 2/2) | Francis Baring, Bt. | Whig | |
| Cambridge (seat 1/2) | Edward Finch | Tory | |
| Cambridge (seat 2/2) | Robert Manners | Tory | |
| Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) | James Whorwood Adeane | ||
| Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) | Charles Philip Yorke | Tory | |
| Cambridge University (seat 1/2) | William Pitt | Pittite Tory (Regarded self as Whig) | |
| Cambridge University (seat 2/2) | Earl of Euston | Whig | |
| Camelford (seat 1/2) | William Joseph Denison | ||
| Camelford (seat 2/2) | John Angerstein | ||
| Canterbury (seat 1/2) | John Baker | Replaced on petition by Sir John Honywood, Bt, May 1797 | |
| Canterbury (seat 2/2) | Samuel Elias Sawbridge | Replaced on petition by George Gipps. Gipps died and replaced by George Watson, Feb 1800 | |
| Cardiff Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Lord Evelyn Stuart | Tory | |
| Cardigan Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Hon. John Vaughan | ||
| Cardiganshire (seat 1/1) | Thomas Johnes | ||
| Carlisle (seat 1/2) | John Christian Curwen | ||
| Carlisle (seat 2/2) | Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane, Bt | ||
| Carmarthen (seat 1/1) | Magens Dorrien Magens | ||
| Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1) | James Hamlyn | ||
| Castle Rising (seat 1/2) | Charles Bagot-Chester | ||
| Castle Rising (seat 2/2) | Horatio Churchill | ||
| Cheshire (seat 1/2) | John Crewe | ||
| Cheshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Cholmondeley | ||
| Chester (seat 1/2) | Viscount Belgrave | ||
| Chester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Grosvenor | ||
| Chichester (seat 1/2) | Thomas Steele | ||
| Chichester (seat 2/2) | George White-Thomas | ||
| Chippenham (seat 1/2) | George Fludyer | ||
| Chippenham (seat 2/2) | James Dawkins | ||
| Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2) | Earl Wycombe | ||
| Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2) | Sir John Dashwood-King, Bt | ||
| Christchurch (seat 1/2) | George Rose | ||
| Christchurch (seat 2/2) | William Stewart Rose | Vacated seat. Replaced by William Chamberlayne, 1800 | |
| Cirencester (seat 1/2) | Sir Robert Preston, Bt | ||
| Cirencester (seat 2/2) | Michael Hicks-Beach | ||
| Clackmannanshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Ralph Abercromby | Vacated seat. Replaced by Sir Robert Abercromby, Feb 1798 | |
| Clitheroe (seat 1/2) | Lord Edward Bentinck | ||
| Clitheroe (seat 2/2) | Hon. Robert Curzon | ||
| Cockermouth (seat 1/2) | John Baynes Garforth | ||
| Cockermouth (seat 2/2) | Edward Burrow | ||
| Colchester (seat 1/2) | Robert Thornton | ||
| Colchester (seat 2/2) | The Lord Muncaster | ||
| Corfe Castle (seat 1/2) | Henry Bankes | ||
| Corfe Castle (seat 2/2) | John Bond | ||
| Cornwall (seat 1/2) | Sir William Lemon, Bt | ||
| Cornwall (seat 2/2) | Francis Gregor | ||
| Coventry (seat 1/2) | William Wilberforce Bird | ||
| Coventry (seat 2/2) | Nathaniel Jefferys | ||
| Cricklade (seat 1/2) | Thomas Estcourt | ||
| Cricklade (seat 2/2) | Lord Portchester | ||
| Cromartyshire (seat 1/1) | Duncan Davidson | ||
| Cumberland (seat 1/2) | Sir Henry Fletcher, Bt | ||
| Cumberland (seat 2/2) | John Lowther | ||
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| Dartmouth (seat 1/2) | John Charles Villiers | ||
| Dartmouth (seat 2/2) | Edmund Bastard | ||
| Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Richard Myddelton | Died 1796 and replaced 1797 by Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones | |
| Denbighshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet | ||
| Derby (seat 1/2) | George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington | Vacated seat in 1897 and replaced by George Walpole | |
| Derby (seat 2/2) | Edward Coke | ||
| Derbyshire (seat 1/2) | Lord John Cavendish | Died 1796 and replaced 1797 by George Cavendish | |
| Derbyshire (seat 2/2) | Edward Miller Mundy | ||
| Devizes (seat 1/2) | Henry Addington | ||
| Devizes (seat 2/2) | Joshua Smith | ||
| Devon (seat 1/2) | John Pollexfen Bastard | ||
| Devon (seat 2/2) | Sir Lawrence Palk, Bt | ||
| Dorchester (seat 1/2) | Hon. Cropley Ashley-Cooper | ||
| Dorchester (seat 2/2) | Francis Fane | ||
| Dorset (seat 1/2) | William Morton Pitt | ||
| Dorset (seat 2/2) | Francis John Browne | ||
| Dover (seat 1/2) | Charles Small Pybus | ||
| Dover (seat 2/2) | John Trevanion | ||
| Downton (seat 1/2) | Hon. Edward Bouverie | ||
| Downton (seat 2/2) | Sir William Scott | ||
| Droitwich (seat 1/2) | Andrew Foley | ||
| Droitwich (seat 2/2) | Sir Edward Winnington, Bt | ||
| Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1) | Alexander Hope | Vacated seat and replaced by William Johnstone Hope, May 1800 | |
| Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Robert Laurie, Bt | ||
| Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1) | William Cunninghame Bontine | Vacated seat and replaced by Alexander Telfer Smollett, May 1797. Smollett died and replaced by Sir James Colquhoun, 3rd Bt, Nov 1799 | |
| Dunwich (seat 1/2) | The Lord Huntingfield | ||
| Dunwich (seat 2/2) | Snowdon Barne | ||
| Durham (City of) (seat 1/2) | William Henry Lambton | Died 1797 and replaced 1798 by Ralph John Lambton | |
| Durham (City of) (seat 2/2) | Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, Bt | ||
| Durham (County) (seat 1/2) | Ralphe Milbanke | ||
| Durham (County) (seat 2/2) | Rowland Burdon | ||
| Dysart Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir James St Clair-Erskine | ||
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| East Grinstead (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel Dance-Holland | ||
| East Grinstead (seat 2/2) | James Strange | ||
| East Looe (seat 1/2) | John Buller | ||
| East Looe (seat 2/2) | William Graves | Replaced by Frederick William Buller 1798 | |
| East Retford (seat 1/2) | William Petrie | ||
| East Retford (seat 2/2) | Sir Wharton Amcotts, Bt | ||
| Edinburgh (seat 1/1) | Henry Dundas | Tory | |
| Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) | Robert Dundas | Tory. Appointed to Crown office and replaced 1801 by Robert Saunders Dundas | |
| Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) | Alexander Brodie | ||
| Elginshire (seat 1/1) | James Brodie | ||
| Essex (seat 1/2) | Thomas Berney Bramston | ||
| Essex (seat 2/2) | Colonel John Bullock | Whig | |
| Evesham (seat 1/2) | Charles Thellusson | ||
| Evesham (seat 2/2) | Thomas Thompson | ||
| Exeter (seat 1/2) | John Baring | Independent | |
| Exeter (seat 2/2) | Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde | Whig | |
| Eye (seat 1/2) | Hon. William Cornwallis | ||
| Eye (seat 2/2) | Mark Singleton | Vacated seat and replaced 1799 by James Cornwallis | |
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| Fife (seat 1/1) | Sir William Erskine, Bt. | ||
| Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Watkin Williams | ||
| Flintshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt | Died and replaced Nov 1796 by Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bt, who in turn was replaced on petition Jun 1797 by John Lloyd | |
| Forfarshire (seat 1/1) | Sir David Carnegie, Bt. | ||
| Fowey (seat 1/2) | Philip Rashleigh | ||
| Fowey (seat 2/2) | Reginald Pole Carew | Appointed to Crown office and replaced Jun 1799 by Edwartd Golding | |
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| Gatton (seat 1/2) | John Petrie | Vacated seat and replaced by James Du Pre, Apr 1800 | |
| Gatton (seat 2/2) | Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bt | Sat for Lincolnshire and replaced Nov 1796 by John Heathcote who vacated seat and was in turn replaced Apr 1799 by Walter Stirling | |
| Glamorganshire (seat 1/1) | Thomas Wyndham | ||
| Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | William McDowall | ||
| Gloucester (seat 1/2) | John Webb | Whig | |
| Gloucester (seat 2/2) | John Pitt | Tory | |
| Gloucestershire (seat 1/2) | Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley | Whig | |
| Gloucestershire (seat 2/2) | Marquess of Worcester | Tory | |
| Grampound (seat 1/2) | Bryan Edwards | Died and replaced July 1800 by Sir Christopher Hawkins, Bt | |
| Grampound (seat 2/2) | Robert Sewell | ||
| Grantham (seat 1/2) | Simon Yorke | ||
| Grantham (seat 2/2) | George Manners-Sutton | ||
| Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2) | Thomas Bruce | Died 1797 and replaced Dec 1797 by Robert John Buxton | |
| Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2) | Hon. John Wodehouse | ||
| Great Grimsby (seat 1/2) | Ayscoghe Boucherett | ||
| Great Grimsby (seat 2/2) | William Mellish | ||
| Great Marlow (seat 1/2) | Thomas Williams | ||
| Great Marlow (seat 2/2) | Owen Williams | ||
| Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2) | Lord Charles Townsend | Killed 1796 and replaced Oct 1796 by William Loftus | |
| Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2) | Stephens Howe | Died and replaced Oct 1796 by Henry Jodrell | |
| Guildford (seat 1/2) | Viscount Cranley | Whig | |
| Guildford (seat 2/2) | Chapple Norton | ||
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| Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1) | Robert Baird | Vacated seat and replaced Mar 1802 by Hon. Thomas Maitland | |
| Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1) | Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton | Vacated seat and replaced May 1800 by Charles Hope | |
| Hampshire (seat 1/2) | Sir William Heathcote, Bt | ||
| Hampshire (seat 2/2) | William John Chute | ||
| Harwich (seat 1/2) | John Robinson | ||
| Harwich (seat 2/2) | Richard Hopkins | Died and replaced April 1799 by Hon Henry AugustusDillon | |
| Haslemere (seat 1/2) | James Lowther | Sat for Westmorland and replaced Nov 1796 by George Wood | |
| Haslemere (seat 2/2) | James Clarke Satterthwaite | ||
| Hastings (seat 1/2) | Sir James Sanderson, Bt | Died and replaced July 1798 by William Sturges | |
| Hastings (seat 2/2) | Nicholas Vansittart | ||
| Haverfordwest (seat 1/1) | William Edwardes, Baron Kensington | ||
| Hedon (seat 1/2) | Christopher Atkinson | ||
| Hedon (seat 2/2) | Sir Lionel Darell, Bt | ||
| Helston (seat 1/2) | Charles Abbot | Tory | |
| Helston (seat 2/2) | Richard Richards | Vacated seat and replaced by Lord Francis Osborne | |
| Hereford (seat 1/2) | James Walwyn | Died and replaced by Thomas Powell Symonds, Nov 1800 | |
| Hereford (seat 2/2) | John Scudamore | Died and replaced Oct 1796 by John Scudamore jnr | |
| Herefordshire (seat 1/2) | Hon Thomas Harley | Tory | |
| Herefordshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Biddulph | ||
| Hertford (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel, Baron Dimsdale | ||
| Hertford (seat 2/2) | John Calvert | ||
| Hertfordshire (seat 1/2) | William Plumer | ||
| Hertfordshire (seat 2/2) | William Baker | ||
| Heytesbury (seat 1/2) | The Viscount Clifden | ||
| Heytesbury (seat 2/2) | Sir John Leicester, Bt | ||
| Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1) | James Adair | Died and replaced Sep 1798 by Stephen Thurston Adey who also died and was replaced in turn Nov 1801 by Francis Ferrand Foljambe | |
| Hindon (seat 1/2) | Matthew Lewis | ||
| Hindon (seat 2/2) | James Wildman | ||
| Honiton (seat 1/2) | George Chambers | ||
| Honiton (seat 2/2) | George Shum | ||
| Horsham (seat 1/2) | Sir John Macpherson, Bt | ||
| Horsham (seat 2/2) | James Fox-Lane | ||
| Huntingdon (seat 1/2) | William Henry Fellowes | ||
| Huntingdon (seat 2/2) | John Calvert | ||
| Huntingdonshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Frederick Montagu | ||
| Huntingdonshire (seat 2/2) | Viscount Hinchingbrooke | ||
| Hythe (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Farnaby-Radcliffe, Bt | Died and replaced by Hon Charles Marsham, Nov 1798 | |
| Hythe (seat 2/2) | William Evelyn | ||
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| Ilchester (seat 1/2) | Sir Robert Clayton, Bt | Died and replaced May 1799 by Lewis Bayly | |
| Ilchester (seat 2/2) | William Dickinson | ||
| Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir Hector Munro | ||
| Inverness-shire (seat 1/1) | John Simon Frederick Fraser | ||
| Ipswich (seat 1/2) | Sir Andrew Hamond, Bt | ||
| Ipswich (seat 2/2) | Charles Alexander Crickitt | ||
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| Kent (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bt | ||
| Kent (seat 2/2) | Sir William Geary, Bt | ||
| Kincardineshire (seat 1/1) | Robert Barclay Allardice | Died and replaced June 1797 by Sir John Wishart-Belsches, Bt | |
| King's Lynn (seat 1/2) | Hon. Horatio Walpole | ||
| King's Lynn (seat 2/2) | Sir Martin ffolkes, Bt | ||
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Turner, Bt | ||
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 2/2) | Samuel Thornton | ||
| Kinross-shire (seat 0/1) | Alternated with Clackmannanshire. Unrepresented in this Parliament | ||
| Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1) | Patrick Heron | Whig | |
| Knaresborough (seat 1/2) | Lord John Townshend | Whig | |
| Knaresborough (seat 2/2) | James Hare | Whig | |
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| Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) | Sir James Denham-Steuart, Bt | Tory | |
| Lancashire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Stanley | ||
| Lancashire (seat 2/2) | John Blackburne | ||
| Lancaster (seat 1/2) | John Dent | ||
| Lancaster (seat 2/2) | Richard Penn | ||
| Launceston (seat 1/2) | Hon. John Theophilus Rawdon | ||
| Launceston (seat 2/2) | James Brogden | ||
| Leicester (seat 1/2) | Samuel Smith | ||
| Leicester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Boothby Parkins | Died and replaced Dec 1800 by Thomas Babington | |
| Leicestershire (seat 1/2) | Penn Assheton Curzon | Died and replaced Oct 1797 by George Anthony Legh Keck | |
| Leicestershire (seat 2/2) | William Pochin | Died and replaced Nov 1798 by Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, Bt | |
| Leominster (seat 1/2) | John Hunter | Vacated seat and replaced June 1797 by William Taylor | |
| Leominster (seat 2/2) | George Augustus Pollen | ||
| Lewes (seat 1/2) | Thomas Kemp | ||
| Lewes (seat 2/2) | Hon John Cressett-Pelham | ||
| Lichfield (seat 1/2) | Lord Granville Leveson-Gower | Vacated seat and replaced Mar 1799 by Sir John Wrottesley, Bt | |
| Lichfield (seat 2/2) | Thomas Anson | ||
| Lincoln (seat 1/2) | George Rawdon | Died and replaced Apr 1800 by Humphrey Sibthorp | |
| Lincoln (seat 2/2) | Richard Ellison | ||
| Lincolnshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bt | ||
| Lincolnshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Vyner | ||
| Linlithgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | Viscount Stopford | ||
| Linlithgowshire (seat 1/1) | Hon. John Hope | Vacated seat and replaced May 1800 by Hon. Alexander Hope | |
| Liskeard (seat 1/2) | Hon. Edward James Eliot | Died and replaced Nov 1797 by Murrough O'Brien. O'Brien vacated seat and replaced by George Murray, Dec 1800 | |
| Liskeard (seat 2/2) | Hon. Hon. John Eliot | ||
| Liverpool (seat 1/2) | Isaac Gascoyne | Tory/Ultra-Tory | |
| Liverpool (seat 2/2) | Banastre Tarleton | Tory | |
| London (City of) (seat 1/4) | William Lushington | ||
| London (City of) (seat 2/4) | William Curtis | Tory | |
| London (City of) (seat 3/4) | Harvey Christian Combe | ||
| London (City of) (seat 4/4) | Sir John William Anderson, Bt | ||
| Lostwithiel (seat 1/2) | Hans Sloane | ||
| Lostwithiel (seat 2/2) | William Drummond | ||
| Ludgershall (seat 1/2) | Earl of Dalkieth | ||
| Ludgershall (seat 2/2) | Thomas Everett | ||
| Ludlow (seat 1/2) | Robert Clive | ||
| Ludlow (seat 2/2) | Richard Payne Knight | ||
| Lyme Regis (seat 1/2) | Hon. Henry Fane | ||
| Lyme Regis (seat 2/2) | Thomas Fane | ||
| Lymington (seat 1/2) | (Sir) Harry Burrard (later Burrard-Neale) | ||
| Lymington (seat 2/2) | William Manning | ||
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| Maidstone (seat 1/2) | Matthew Bloxham | ||
| Maidstone (seat 2/2) | Oliver De Lancey | ||
| Maldon (seat 1/2) | Joseph Holden Strutt | ||
| Maldon (seat 2/2) | Charles Callis Western | ||
| Malmesbury (seat 1/2) | Samuel Smith | Sat for Leicester and replaced Nov 1797 by Philip Metcalfe | |
| Malmesbury (seat 2/2) | Peter Thellusson | ||
| Malton (seat 1/2) | William Baldwin | Replaced by Charles Lawrence Dundas 1798 | |
| Malton (seat 2/2) | George Damer | Ennobled and replaced Feb 1798 by Bryan Cooke | |
| Marlborough (seat 1/2) | Charles Bruce, Lord Bruce | ||
| Marlborough (seat 2/2) | Hon. James Bruce | Vacated seat and replaced by Robert Brudenell | |
| Merionethshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Robert Williames Vaughan | ||
| Middlesex (seat 1/2) | William Mainwaring | Tory | |
| Middlesex (seat 2/2) | George Byng | Whig | |
| Midhurst (seat 1/2) | Sylvester Douglas | Ennobled and replaced Dec 1800 by George Smith | |
| Midhurst (seat 2/2) | Charles Long | ||
| Milborne Port (seat 1/2) | Henry Paget, Lord Paget | ||
| Milborne Port (seat 2/2) | Sir Robert Ainslie, Bt | ||
| Minehead (seat 1/2) | John Fownes Luttrell | Tory | |
| Minehead (seat 2/2) | John Langston (MP) | Tory | |
| Mitchell (seat 1/2) | Sir Stephen Lushington, Bt | ||
| Mitchell (seat 2/2) | Sir Christopher Hawkins, Bt | Vacated seat and replaced Apr 1799 by John Simpson | |
| Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir Charles Thompson, Bt | Died and replaced by Lord Edward Somerset, Mar 1799 | |
| Monmouthshire (seat 1/2) | James Rooke | ||
| Monmouthshire (seat 2/2) | Charles Morgan (formerly Gould) | ||
| Montgomery (seat 1/1) | Whitshed Keene | ||
| Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1) | Francis Lloyd | Replaced by Charles Williams-Wynn 1799 | |
| Morpeth (seat 1/2) | Viscount Morpeth | ||
| Morpeth (seat 2/2) | William Huskisson | ||
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| Nairnshire (seat 0/0) | Henry Frederick Campbell | ||
| Newark (seat 1/2) | Thomas Manners-Sutton | ||
| Newark (seat 2/2) | Mark Wood | ||
| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2) | William Egerton | ||
| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2) | Edward Bootle-Wilbraham | ||
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2) | Charles Brandling | Vacated seat and replaced Jan 1798 by Charles John Brandling | |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2) | Sir Matthew White Ridley, 2nd Baronet | ||
| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2) | William Northey | ||
| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2) | Joseph Richardson | ||
| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Jervoise Clarke Jervoise | Chose to sit for Yarmouth, IoW and replaced Nov 1796 by William Hamilton Nisbet | |
| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Edward Rushworth | Chose to sit for Yarmouth, IoW and replaced by Andrew Strahan | |
| New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1) | George Capel-Coningsby, Viscount Malden | Ennobled and replaced Mar 1799 by Richard Price | |
| New Romney (seat 1/2) | John Fordyce | ||
| New Romney (seat 2/2) | John Willett Willett | ||
| New Shoreham (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles William Wyndham | ||
| New Shoreham (seat 2/2) | Sir Cecil Bisshopp, Bt | ||
| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 1/2) | Thomas Peter Legh | ||
| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 2/2) | Thomas Brooke | Died and replaced Sep 1797 by Thomas Langford Brooke. Brooke replaced Sep 1797 on petition by Peter Patten | |
| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Sir Richard Worsley, Bt | Vacated seat and replaced Feb 1801 by Sir Edward Law | |
| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Charles Shaw-Lefevre | ||
| New Windsor (seat 1/2) | Hon. Robert Fulke Greville | Tory | |
| New Windsor (seat 2/2) | Henry Isherwood | Died and replaced Feb 1797 by Sir William Johnston, Bt | |
| New Woodstock (seat 1/2) | Ralph Payne, Baron Lavington | Appointed to Crown office and replaced Jan 1799 by Charles Moore | |
| New Woodstock (seat 2/2) | Sir Henry Dashwood, Bt | ||
| Norfolk (seat 1/2) | Thomas Coke | | ||
| Norfolk (seat 2/2) | Sir John Wodehouse, Bt | Replaced by Jacob Astley 1797 | |
| Northallerton (seat 1/2) | Henry Peirse (younger) | ||
| Northallerton (seat 2/2) | Hon. Edward Lascelles | ||
| Northampton (seat 1/2) | Hon. Spencer Perceval | ||
| Northampton (seat 2/2) | Hon. Edward Bouverie | ||
| Northamptonshire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Powys | Vacated seat and replaced by William Ralph Cartwright, Aug 1797 | |
| Northamptonshire (seat 2/2) | Francis Dickins | ||
| Northumberland (seat 1/2) | Charles Grey | ||
| Northumberland (seat 2/2) | Thomas Richard Beaumont | ||
| Norwich (seat 1/2) | Hon. Henry Hobart | Died and replaced May 1799 by John Frere | |
| Norwich (seat 2/2) | William Windham | ||
| Nottingham (seat 1/2) | Robert Smith | Ennobled and replaced Nov 1797 by Sir John Borlase Warren, Bt | |
| Nottingham (seat 2/2) | Daniel Parker Coke | ||
| Nottinghamshire (seat 1/2) | Lord William Bentinck | ||
| Nottinghamshire (seat 2/2) | Hon. Evelyn Pierrepont | ||
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| Okehampton (seat 1/2) | Thomas Tyrwhitt | Whig | |
| Okehampton (seat 2/2) | Richard Bateman-Robson | Whig | |
| Old Sarum (seat 1/2) | Richard Wellesley, Earl of Mornington | Vacated seat and replaced July 1797 by Charles Williams-Wynn | |
| Old Sarum (seat 2/2) | George Hardinge | ||
| Orford (seat 1/2) | Lord Robert Seymour | ||
| Orford (seat 2/2) | Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh | ||
| Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1) | Robert Honyman | ||
| Oxford (seat 1/2) | Francis Burton | ||
| Oxford (seat 2/2) | Henry Peters | ||
| Oxfordshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Charles Spencer | Appointed to Crown Office and replaced by Lord Francis Spencer | |
| Oxfordshire (seat 2/2) | John Fane (1751–1824) | ||
| Oxford University (seat 1/2) | Sir William Dolben, Bt | ||
| Oxford University (seat 2/2) | Francis Page | Vacated seat and replaced Mar 1801 by Sir William Scott | |
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| Peeblesshire (seat 1/1) | William Montgomery | Died and replaced by James Montgomery, Dec 1800 | |
| Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Hugh Barlow | Whig | |
| Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1) | Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford | ||
| Penryn (seat 1/2) | Thomas Wallace | Tory | |
| Penryn (seat 2/2) | William Meeke | ||
| Perth Burghs (seat 1/1) | David Scott | ||
| Perthshire (seat 1/1) | Thomas Graham | ||
| Peterborough (seat 1/2) | Hon. Lionel Damer | ||
| Peterborough (seat 2/2) | Richard Benyon | Benyon died and was replaced Oct 1796 by French Laurence | |
| Petersfield (seat 1/2) | William Jolliffe | ||
| Petersfield (seat 2/2) | Hylton Jolliffe | Vacated seat and was replaced Jam 1797 by Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet | |
| Plymouth (seat 1/2) | Sir Frederick Rogers, Bt | Replaced by Francis Glanville 1797 | |
| Plymouth (seat 2/2) | William Elford | ||
| Plympton Erle (seat 1/2) | William Adams | ||
| Plympton Erle (seat 2/2) | William Mitchell | Vacated seat and replaced June 1799 by Richard Hankey | |
| Pontefract (seat 1/2) | Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway | ||
| Pontefract (seat 2/2) | John Smyth | ||
| Poole (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles Stuart | Died and replaced Apr 1801 by George Garland | |
| Poole (seat 2/2) | John Jeffery | ||
| Portsmouth (seat 1/2) | Hon. Thomas Erskine | ||
| Portsmouth (seat 2/2) | Lord Hugh Seymour | Died and was replaced Nov 1801 by John Markham | |
| Preston (seat 1/2) | Lord Stanley | ||
| Preston (seat 2/2) | Sir Henry Hoghton, Bt | ||
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| Queenborough (seat 1/2) | John Sargent | ||
| Queenborough (seat 2/2) | Evan Nepean | ||
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| Radnorshire (seat 1/1) | Walter Wilkins | ||
| Reading (seat 1/2) | Francis Annesley | ||
| Reading (seat 2/2) | Richard Aldworth Neville | Ennobled and replaced in June 1797 by John Simeon | |
| Reigate (seat 1/2) | Hon. John Somers Cocks | ||
| Reigate (seat 2/2) | Joseph Sydney Yorke | ||
| Renfrewshire (seat 1/1) | Boyd Alexander | ||
| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2) | Hon. Lawrence Dundas | ||
| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2) | Charles George Beauclerk
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| Ripon (seat 1/2) | William Lawrence | Tory | |
| Ripon (seat 2/2) | Sir George Allanson-Winn, Bt | Tory. Ennobled and replaced Apr 1798 by John Heathcote | |
| Rochester (seat 1/2) | Sir Richard King, Bt | ||
| Rochester (seat 2/2) | Hon. Henry Tufton | ||
| Ross-shire (seat 1/1) | Sir Charles Lockhart-Ross, Bt. | ||
| Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) | Sir George Douglas | ||
| Rutland (seat 1/2) | Gerard Noel Edwardes | Whig | |
| Rutland (seat 2/2) | Sir William Lowther, Bt | ||
| Rye (seat 1/2) | Hon. Robert Banks Jenkinson | Tory | |
| Rye (seat 2/2) | Robert Saunders Dundas | Tory | |
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| St Albans (seat 1/2) | Hon. Richard Bingham | Tory. Vacated seat and replaced June 1800 by William Stephen Poyntz | |
| St Albans (seat 2/2) | Thomas Skip Dyot Bucknall | Tory | |
| St Germans (seat 1/2) | Hon. William Eliot | ||
| St Germans (seat 2/2) | Lord Grey | ||
| St Ives (seat 1/2) | William Praed | ||
| St Ives (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Glyn, Bt | ||
| St Mawes (seat 1/2) | Sir William Young, Bt | Tory | |
| St Mawes (seat 2/2) | Sir George Nugent, Bt | Chose to sit for Buckingham. Replaced Oct 1796 by Jeremiah Crutchley | |
| Salisbury (seat 1/2) | Hon. William Henry Bouverie | ||
| Salisbury (seat 2/2) | William Hussey | ||
| Saltash (seat 1/2) | The Lord Macdonald | ||
| Saltash (seat 2/2) | Edward Bearcroft | Died and replaced Dec 1796 by Charles Smith | |
| Sandwich (seat 1/2) | Sir Philip Stephens, Bt | ||
| Sandwich (seat 2/2) | Sir Horatio Mann, Bt | ||
| Scarborough (seat 1/2) | Lord Charles Somerset | Tory | |
| Scarborough (seat 2/2) | Hon. Edmund Phipps | Tory | |
| Seaford (seat 1/2) | Charles Rose Ellis | Tory | |
| Seaford (seat 2/2) | George Ellis | Tory | |
| Selkirkshire (seat 1/1) | Mark Pringle | ||
| Shaftesbury (seat 1/2) | Paul Benfield | ||
| Shaftesbury (seat 2/2) | Walter Boyd | ||
| Shrewsbury (seat 1/2) | Sir William Pulteney, Bt | Whig | |
| Shrewsbury (seat 2/2) | Hon. William Hill | Tory | |
| Shropshire (seat 1/2) | John Kynaston (later Powell) | ||
| Shropshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Hill, Bt | ||
| Somerset (seat 1/2) | William Dickinson | ||
| Somerset (seat 2/2) | William Gore-Langton | ||
| Southampton (seat 1/2) | George Henry Rose | ||
| Southampton (seat 2/2) | James Amyatt | ||
| Southwark (seat 1/2) | Henry Thornton | Independent | |
| Southwark (seat 2/2) | George Woodford Thellusson | Whig Replaced by George Tierney 1796 | |
| Stafford (seat 1/2) | Edward Monckton | Tory | |
| Stafford (seat 2/2) | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Whig | |
| Staffordshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Littleton, Bt | Whig | |
| Staffordshire (seat 2/2) | Earl Gower | Whig Replaced by Lord Granville Leveson-Gower 1799 | |
| Stamford (seat 1/2) | Sir George Howard | Died and replaced Oct 1796 by John Leland | |
| Stamford (seat 2/2) | John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort | ||
| Steyning (seat 1/2) | John Henniker-Major | ||
| Steyning (seat 2/2) | James Lloyd | ||
| Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) | Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone | Tory Replaced by William Tait 1797; Replaced by Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane 1800 | |
| Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) | Sir George Keith Elphinstone | ||
| Stockbridge (seat 1/2) | Joseph Foster Barham | Whig. Vacated seat and replaced Apr 1799 by John Agnew | |
| Stockbridge (seat 2/2) | George Porter | Whig | |
| Sudbury (seat 1/2) | William Smith | ||
| Sudbury (seat 2/2) | Sir James Marriott | ||
| Suffolk (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Bunbury, Bt | ||
| Suffolk (seat 2/2) | Charles Cornwallis, Viscount Brome | ||
| Surrey (seat 1/2) | Lord William Russell | Whig | |
| Surrey (seat 2/2) | Sir John Frederick, Bt | Tory | |
| Sussex (seat 1/2) | Hon. Thomas Pelham | Ennobled July 1801 and replaced by John Fuller | |
| Sussex (seat 2/2) | Charles Lennox | ||
| Sutherland (seat 1/1) | James Grant | ||
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| Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Dundas | Tory | |
| Tamworth (seat 1/2) | Sir Robert Peel | Tory | |
| Tamworth (seat 2/2) | Thomas Carter | ||
| Taunton (seat 1/2) | Sir Benjamin Hammet | Died and replaced Aug 1800 by John Hammet | |
| Taunton (seat 2/2) | William Morland | ||
| Tavistock (seat 1/2) | Lord John Russell | ||
| Tavistock (seat 2/2) | Hon. Richard FitzPatrick | ||
| Tewkesbury (seat 1/2) | James Martin | ||
| Tewkesbury (seat 2/2) | William Dowdeswell | Appointed to Crown office and replaced Dec 1797 by Christopher Bethell Codrington | |
| Thetford (seat 1/2) | Joseph Randyll Burch | ||
| Thetford (seat 2/2) | John Harrison | ||
| Thirsk (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Frankland, Bt | ||
| Thirsk (seat 2/2) | Sir Gregory Page-Turner, Bt | ||
| Tiverton (seat 1/2) | Hon. Dudley Ryder | ||
| Tiverton (seat 2/2) | Hon. Richard Ryder | ||
| Totnes (seat 1/2) | Lord Arden | ||
| Totnes (seat 2/2) | Lord George Seymour | Vacated seat and replaced Feb 1801 by William Adams | |
| Tregony (seat 1/2) | Sir Lionel Copley, Bt | ||
| Tregony (seat 2/2) | John Nicholls | ||
| Truro (seat 1/2) | John Leveson-Gower | ||
| Truro (seat 2/2) | John Lemon | ||
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| Wallingford (seat 1/2) | Lord Eardley | Whig | |
| Wallingford (seat 2/2) | Sir Francis Sykes, Bt | Tory | |
| Wareham (seat 1/2) | Sir Godfrey Vassall | Whig Replaced by John Calcraft 1800 | |
| Wareham (seat 2/2) | Lord Robert Spencer | Replaced by Joseph Chaplin Hankey 1799 | |
| Warwick (seat 1/2) | Hon. George Villiers | ||
| Warwick (seat 2/2) | Samuel Robert Gaussen | ||
| Warwickshire (seat 1/2) | Sir John Mordaunt, Bt | ||
| Warwickshire (seat 2/2) | Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Bt | ||
| Wells (seat 1/2) | John Paine Tudway | ||
| Wells (seat 2/2) | Charles William Taylor | ||
| Wendover (seat 1/2) | John Hiley Addington | Tory | |
| Wendover (seat 2/2) | George Canning | Tory | |
| Wenlock (seat 1/2) | John Simpson | ||
| Wenlock (seat 2/2) | Cecil Forester | ||
| Weobley (seat 1/2) | Lord George Thynne | ||
| Weobley (seat 2/2) | Lord John Thynne | Vacated seat and replaced Dec 1796 by Inigo Freeman Thomas. Thomas then vacated seat and was replaced Apr 1800 by Sir Charles Talbot, Bt. | |
| Westbury (seat 1/2) | Sir Henry St John-Mildmay, Bt | ||
| Westbury (seat 2/2) | George Ellis | Chose to sit for Seaford and replaced Apr 1800 by John Simon Harcourt | |
| West Looe (seat 1/2) | John Buller | Vacated seat and replaced Nov 1796 by John Hookham Frere | |
| West Looe (seat 2/2) | Sitwell Sitwell | ||
| Westminster (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles James Fox | Foxite Whig | |
| Westminster (seat 2/2) | Sir Alan Gardner, Bt | Tory | |
| Westmorland (seat 1/2) | Sir Michael le Fleming, Bt | Tory | |
| Westmorland (seat 2/2) | James Lowther | Tory | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 1/4) | Sir James Pulteney, Bt (formerly Murray) | Tory | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 2/4) | Andrew Stuart | Died and replaced May 1801 by Charles Adams | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4) | Gabriel Tucker Steward | Tory | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4) | William Garthshore | Tory | |
| Whitchurch (seat 1/2) | Hon. John Townshend | Ennobled and replaced Jul 1800 by Hon. William Augustus Townshend | |
| Whitchurch (seat 2/2) | William Brodrick | ||
| Wigan (seat 1/2) | Hon. Orlando Bridgeman | Ennobled and replaced Jun 1800 by George William Gunning | |
| Wigan (seat 2/2) | John Cotes | ||
| Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) | John Spalding | ||
| Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) | Hon. William Stewart | ||
| Wilton (seat 1/2) | Viscount FitzWilliam | ||
| Wilton (seat 2/2) | Philip Goldsworthy | Died and replaced Feb 1801 by John Spencer | |
| Wiltshire (seat 1/2) | Ambrose Goddard | ||
| Wiltshire (seat 2/2) | Henry Penruddocke Wyndham | ||
| Winchelsea (seat 1/2) | Richard Barwell | Vacated seat and replaced Dec 1796 by William Devaynes | |
| Winchelsea (seat 2/2) | William Currie | ||
| Winchester (seat 1/2) | Richard Grace Gamon | ||
| Winchester (seat 2/2) | Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston | ||
| Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2) | John Denison | ||
| Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2) | Edward Clarke | ||
| Worcester (seat 1/2) | Edmund Wigley | ||
| Worcester (seat 2/2) | Abraham Robarts | ||
| Worcestershire (seat 1/2) | Edward Foley | ||
| Worcestershire (seat 2/2) | William Lygon | ||
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Jervoise Clarke Jervoise | Whig | |
| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Edward Rushworth | Independent. Vacated seat and replaced March 1797 by William Peachy | |
| York (seat 1/2) | Sir William Mordaunt Milner, Bt. | Whig | |
| York (seat 2/2) | Richard Slater Milnes | Tory | |
| Yorkshire (seat 1/2) | William Wilberforce | Tory | |
| Yorkshire (seat 2/2) | Hon. Henry Lascelles | Tory | |
By-elections
- List of Great Britain by-elections (1790–1800)
See also
- 1796 British general election
- List of parliaments of Great Britain
- Unreformed House of Commons
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