Leicestershire | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Leicestershire |
1290–1832 | |
Seats | Two |
Replaced by | North Leicestershire and South Leicestershire |
Leicestershire was a county constituency in Leicestershire, represented in the House of Commons. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs), traditionally called Knights of the Shire, by the bloc vote system of election, to the Parliament of England until 1707, to the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 until 1800, and then to the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1832.