Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Cambridgeshire
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
1290–1885
Seats2 (1290 – 1832)
3 (1832 – 1885)
Replaced byChesterton
Newmarket
Wisbech
19181983
Seatsone
Created fromChesterton
Newmarket
Replaced bySE Cambridgeshire
SW Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a former Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. It was a constituency represented by two Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then in the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832, when its representation was increased to three until it was abolished in 1885.

It was reconstituted as a single-member seat in 1918 and abolished once again in 1983.


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