Mid Somerset | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
1868–1885 | |
Seats | two |
Created from | East Somerset West Somerset |
Replaced by | East Somerset South Somerset Wells |
Mid Somerset was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Somerset, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.
It was created for the 1868 general election,[1] and abolished for the 1885 general election, when Somerset was divided into several new single-member constituencies: Bridgwater, Frome, East Somerset, North Somerset, South Somerset, Wellington and Wells.