Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)

Honiton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Honiton in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sent members intermittently from 1300, consistently from 1640. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) until it was abolished in 1868. It was recreated in 1885 as a single-member constituency.

For the 1997 general election, it was merged with the neighbouring constituency of Tiverton to form the Tiverton & Honiton constituency.

Honiton was regarded as a potwalloper borough by the time of Thomas Cochrane.

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Members of Parliament

1640-1660

Long Parliament
* 1640-1643: William Poole (Royalist) - "disabled to sit, June 1643"
* 1640-1648: Walter Yonge (Parliamentarian) - "not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge, December 1648; died December 1649"
* 1645(?)-1648: Charles Vaughan - "excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648"

"Honiton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate

Third Protectorate Parliament
* 1659: Walter Yonge "(grandson of the Member from 1640 -1648)"
* 1659: ?

"'Long Parliament (restored)
* 1659-1660: ?

1660-1868

1885-1997