Gatton (UK Parliament constituency)

Gatton
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1450–1832
SeatsTwo
Replaced byEast Surrey

Gatton was a parliamentary borough in Surrey, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1450 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act.[1] Around the time of that Act it was often held up by reformers as the epitome of what was wrong with the unreformed system.

  1. ^ "Parishes - Gatton". British History Online. Retrieved 14 October 2010.