Arundel was twice a parliamentary constituency in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The first incarnation strictly comprised the town centre of Arundel and was a borough constituency in Sussex first enfranchised in 1295 and disfranchised in 1868 under the Reform Act 1867. Arundel initially elected two members, but this was reduced to one in 1832 by the Great Reform Act.

The second incarnation was broader, reaching to Bognor Regis. It was created by the Boundary Commission in the 1974 boundary changes, and existed until 1997. This Arundel seat elected only one member. The territory previously covered by Arundel was split between Arundel & South Downs and Bognor Regis & Littlehampton constituencies.

Members of Parliament

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1295–1640

ParliamentFirst memberSecond member 1386 William Colyn Richard Wodeland 1388 (Feb) Roger Clerk John Hereward 1388 (Sep) Robert Fisher Nicholas Hereward 1390 (Jan) William ColchestreRobert Fisher 1390 (Nov) 1391 Hugh Hasell Richard Wodeland 1393 John Chamberlain Robert Fisher 1394 1395 Richard Wodeland Robert Fisher 1397 (Jan) Henry Skimmer Richard Wodeland 1397 (Sep) John Patching Richard Wodeland 1399 John Esshing William Terry 1401 William Terry John Wiltshire 1402 John Dusse John Wyldebess 1404 (Jan) 1404 (Oct) 1406 John Patching Thomas Spicer 1407 John Dusse John Patching 1410John Wiltshire 1411 1413 (Feb) 1413 (May) John Dusse John Wiltshire 1414 (Apr) 1414 (Nov) John Dusse John Patching 1415 1416 (Mar) William Chapman Richard Smith 1416 (Oct) 1417 Thomas Dusse Richard Smith 1419 John Hilly Thomas Kyng 1420 Thomas Dusse Thomas Pursell 1421 (May) John Hilly Alan Chamber 1421 (Dec) Thomas Pursell Thomas Dusse 1449 Thomas Bellingham 1459 Thomas Bellingham 1510-1523 No names known 1529 Richard Sackville Thomas Prestall 1536 ? 1539 ? 1542 ? 1545 ? 1547Sir Nicholas Pelham Thomas Carpenter 1553 (Mar) Thomas Palmer Thomas Morley 1553 (Oct) Sir Thomas Palmer Thomas Gawdy 1554 (Apr) Sir Thomas Holcroft Sir Thomas Stradling 1554 (Nov) John Burnet Richard Bowyer 1555 Sir Henry Paget Sir William DamsellStanley T. Bindoff, The House of Commons|| 1509-1558, vol. 4, p. 9. 1558 Edward Stradling David Stradling 1559 Sir Francis Knollys Thomas Heneage 1562–3 Sir John St Leger William Aubrey 1571 Thomas Browne Michael Heneage 1572 Thomas Fanshawe Richard Browne 1584 Thomas Fanshawe Robert Buxton 1586 Thomas Fanshawe Thomas Palmer 1588 Sir Owen Hopton Thomas Fanshawe 1593 Thomas Fanshawe Richard Baker 1597 William Essex James Smith 1601 Thomas Palmer Thomas Baker 1604-1611 Thomas Preston John Tye 1614 Sir Henry Spiller Edward Morley 1621 Lionel Cranfield, ennobled Sep 1622 and repl. Nov 1622 by Sir Richard Weston Sir Henry Spiller 1624 Sir Henry Spiller Sir George Chaworth replaced 1624 on petition by William Mill 1625 Sir Henry Spiller William Mill 1626 Nicholas Jordain William Mill 1628 John Alford Henry Lord Maltravers 1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned Back to Members of Parliament

1640–1832 YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party April 1640 Henry Garton Parliamentarian Henry Goring November 1640Henry GartonParliamentarianSir Edward AlfordRoyalist1641John DownesDownes was elected after a disputed return at the by-election which followed the death of GartonParliamentarianJanuary 1644Alford disabled from sitting - seat vacant1645Herbert HayDecember 1648Hay excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant1653Arundel was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament1654Anthony Shirley Arundel had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate1656Sir John TrevorJanuary 1659Henry OnslowRichard MarriotMay 1659John DownesOne seat vacant April 1660The Earl of Orrery The Viscount Falkland May 1660 John Trevor 1661 The Lord Aungier of Longford 1679William Garway James Butler 1685 William Westbrooke 1689 William Morley 1690 James Butler January 1694 Lord Walden February 1694 John Cooke 1695 Lord Walden Edmund Dummer 1698 John Cooke Christopher Knight January 1701 Edmund Dummer November 1701 Carew Weekes 1702 Edmund Dummer 1705 James Butler May 1708 Sir Henry Peachey, Bt The Viscount Shannon December 1708 Viscount Lumley 1710 The Earl of Thomond Viscount Lumley Whig 1715 General Henry Lumley Thomas Micklethwaite 1718 Joseph Micklethwaite 1722 Thomas Lumley 1727 Sir John Shelley, Bt The Viscount Gage 1728 John Lumley 1739 Garton Orme 1741 James Lumley 1747 Theobald Taafe 1754 Sir George Colebrooke, Bt Thomas Griffin 1761 John Bristow 1768 Lauchlin Macleane 1771 John Stewart 1774 Thomas Brand George Newnham 1780 Sir Patrick Crauford Whig Thomas Fitzherbert Tory 1781 Peter William Baker April 1784 Earl of Surrey Whig June 1784 Richard Beckford Whig 1790 Sir George Thomas, Bt Tory Henry Howard Whig 1795 Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Bt 1796 James Greene Whig 1797 Nisbet Balfour 1802 Viscount Andover Whig John Atkins Tory 1806 Sir Arthur Piggott Whig Francis Wilder Whig January 1807 The Lord Lecale Whig May 1807 Francis Wilder Whig October 1812 Henry Molyneux-Howard Whig December 1812 Sir Samuel Romilly Whig 1818 Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard Whig Sir Arthur Piggott Whig 1819 Robert Blake Tory 1820 Viscount Bury Whig 1823 Thomas Read Kemp Whig 1826 Edward Lombe Whig John Atkins Tory 1830 Lord Dudley Stuart Whig1832 Representation reduced to one member Back to Members of Parliament

1832–1868 YearMemberParty 1832 Lord Dudley Stuart Whig 1837 Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel Whig 1851 Edward Strutt Whig 1852 Lord Edward Fitzalan-Howard Whig 1859 Liberal1868 Constituency abolished Back to Members of Parliament

Arundel County Constituency (1974–1997) ElectionMemberParty Feb 1974 Sir Michael Marshall Conservative1997 Constituency abolished: see Arundel and South Downs & Bognor Regis and Littlehampton

Elections 1830s – 1840s – 1850s – 1860s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s

Elections in the 1830s

Elections in the 1840s

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Elections in the 1850s FitzAlan-Howard's resignation in protest at the passing of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851 caused a by-election.

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Elections in the 1860s

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Elections in the 1970s

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Elections in the 1980s

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Elections in the 1990s

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See also List of parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex

Notes and references

Sources Election results, 1974 - 1997 Concise Dictionary of National Biography (entry on Sir Nicholas Pelham) D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)