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Portsmouth was a borough constituency based upon the borough of Portsmouth in Hampshire. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency first elected MPs in 1295. It was abolished at the 1918 general election, when the Representation of the People Act 1918 divided it into three new constituencies; Portsmouth North, Portsmouth South and Portsmouth Central.
According to Namier and Brooke in The House of Commons 1754...
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