Ashburton

Ashburton may refer to:

Australia

  • Ashburton, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
  • Shire of Ashburton, a shire in Western Australia
  • Electoral district of Ashburton, a former state electorate in Western Australia
  • New Zealand

  • Ashburton, New Zealand, a town in Canterbury
  • Ashburton Aerodrome, a small airport serving Ashburton
  • Ashburton County, was one of the counties of New Zealand
  • Ashburton (New Zealand electorate), a former electorate in New Zealand
  • South Africa

  • Ashburton, KwaZulu-Natal, a town in South Africa
  • United Kingdom

  • Ashburton, Devon, a town in England
  • Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency), a former UK Parliamentary constituency
  • Ashburton, London, an area in the London Borough of Croydon, England
  • Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency)

    Ashburton was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament at Westminster, for one Parliament in 1298 and regularly from 1640 until it was abolished for the 1868 general election. It was one of three Devon borough constituencies newly enfranchised (or re-enfranchised after a gap of centuries) in the Long Parliament. It returned two Members of Parliament until the 1832 general election when the number was reduced to one MP.

    From the 1885 general election Ashburton was revived as a county division of Devon. It returned one member until it was abolished from the 1918 general election.

    Members of Parliament

    Ashburton borough 1398–1868

    Ashburton re-enfranchised by Parliament in Nov 1640

    MPs 1640–1832

    MPs 1832–1868

    Notes

  • Succeeded as 2nd Baronet, 1674
  • At the election of 1710, Lloyd and Tuckfield were returned but on petition both were found not to have been duly elected (in a dispute over the franchise), and Reynell and Courtenay were declared elected in their place
  • Ashburton (New Zealand electorate)

    Ashburton was a New Zealand electorate, first created in 1881 and centred on the South Island town of Ashburton.

    Population centres

    The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1875 for the 1875–76 election. In the six years since, New Zealand's European population had increased by 65%. In the 1881 electoral redistribution, the House of Representatives increased the number of European representatives to 91 (up from 84 since the 1875–76 election). The number of Māori electorates was held at four. The House further decided that electorates should not have more than one representative, which led to 35 new electorates being formed, including Ashburton, and two electorates that had previously been abolished to be recreated. This necessitated a major disruption to existing boundaries.

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