By-elections

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By-elections in Taunton
Taunton by-election, 1701 Start   2211  
Taunton by-election, 1724 Start   1714
Taunton by-election, 1754 GA   7118  
Taunton by-election, 1782 NA   0
Taunton by-election, 1835 NA   0
Taunton by-election, 1842 NA   0
Taunton by-election, 1853 NA   0
Taunton by-election, 1859 NA   0
Taunton by-election, 1873 Stub   255
Taunton by-election, 1882 NA   0
Taunton by-election, 1887 GA   8484  
Taunton by-election, 1909 Stub   261
Taunton by-election, 1912 Stub   614
Taunton by-election, 1921 Stub   250
Taunton by-election, 1956 Stub   224

Members

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MPs 1295–1640
Member Length
William Portman (died c.1413) 0
William Marchaunt 0
William Damarle 0
John Porter (MP for Taunton) 0
Walter Puryham 0
Robert Coullyng 0
Robert Eysel 0
Richard Marchaunt 0
John Northmore (MP) 0
Edmund Rokes 0
Ralph Sargor 0
Robert Bathe 0
Thomas Bacot 0
Thomas Edward (MP) 0
John Rydon 0
Lewis John 0
John Marchaunt 0
Edmund Dyer 0
Walter Portman 0
Robert Croke (fl.1419-1420) 0
William Borde 0
John Bowe (MP) 0
Ralph Legh 0
William Danvers 681
Thomas Cromwell 27337
William Portman 2062
Richard Pollard (MP) 3654
Nicholas Hare 1246
John Caryll (MP) 0
James Basset 7389
John Wingfield (MP for Taunton) 0
William Barnes (died 1558) 320
Oliver Vachell 440
Thomas Eden (MP for Taunton) 0
John Norris (died 1577) 195
Valentine Dale 3752
Richard Myrfield 0
Miles Sandys 503
Anthony Leigh (MP) 0
Robert Hill (Taunton MP) 0
Richard Blount (died 1575) 0
Roger Hill (died 1608) 150
Edmund Hodges 0
Maurice Horner 0
William Goldwell 0
Francis Bacon 27222
John Goldwell 0
Thomas Fisher (died 1613) 0
William Aubrey 1860
John Davidge 0
Edward Barker (MP) 198
Edward Hext 0
John Bond (classicist) 1185
Daniel Donne 2503
James Clerke 418
John Dunn (MP for Taunton) 0
Lewis Pope 498
Thomas Brereton (MP for Taunton) 0
Roger Prowse 0
Hugh Portman 664
Robert Gorges 1220
George Browne (died 1631) 755
MPs 1640–1885
Member Length
Sir William Portman, 5th Baronet 808
Roger Hill (judge) 2348
George Searle (MP) 0
John Palmer (Warden of All Souls) 0
Thomas Gorges (Maine governor) 2615
John Gorges 0
Robert Blake (admiral) 12462
Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet 1245
Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet 4271
John Trenchard (politician) 1849
Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet 0
Edmund Prideaux (MP for Taunton) 1423
John Sanford (MP) 0
Edward Clarke (of Chipley) 0
John Speke (MP) 0
Henry Seymour Portman 0
Sir Francis Warre, 1st Baronet 0
Sir William Pynsent, 2nd Baronet 0
James Smith (MP for Taunton) 0
John Trenchard (writer) 1339
Sir Abraham Elton, 2nd Baronet 2262
George Speke (died 1753) 0
Francis Fane of Brympton 1789
Henry William Berkeley Portman 0
Sir John Chapman, 2nd Baronet 529
John Buck (Taunton MP) 0
Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond 2112
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont 2537
Robert Webb (MP) 168
William Rowley (Royal Navy officer) 1222
George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell 3258
John Halliday (died 1754) 0
Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham 1875
Laurence Sulivan 276
Alexander Popham (penal reformer) 1336
Nathaniel Webb 0
Edward Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough 3354
John Halliday (died 1805) 0
John Roberts (died 1782) 0
Benjamin Hammet 0
William Morland 0
John Hammet 0
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton 2888
Henry Powell Collins 0
Sir William Burroughs, 1st Baronet 1280
John Ashley Warre 0
Henry Seymour (Knoyle) 0
William Peachey 0
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton 2490
Edward Thomas Bainbridge 0
Sir Edward Colebrooke, 4th Baronet 1708
Arthur Mills (MP) 1818
George Cavendish-Bentinck 3884
Alexander Charles Barclay 937
William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale 2369
Edward William Cox 5990
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford 3937
William Palliser 2981
Samuel Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip 1262
MPs since 1885
Member Length
Alfred Percy Allsopp 1298
Alfred Welby 2244
Sir Edward Boyle, 1st Baronet 1246
William Peel, 1st Earl Peel 3656
Gilbert Wills, 1st Baron Dulverton 937
Sir Dennis Boles, 1st Baronet 2452
Arthur Griffith-Boscawen 3837
John Hope Simpson 2447
Andrew Gault 12238
Edward Wickham 4627
Victor Collins, Baron Stonham 1180
Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton 2235
Edward du Cann 4188
David Nicholson (British politician) 625
Jackie Ballard 4318
Adrian Flook 1213
Jeremy Browne 6788