rapes each consisted of a strip of territory from the northern border of the county to its southern coast, so the area involved was considerably larger than that of the normal Parliamentary borough. As a result of the extension of the boundaries the constituency became more like a county one than a typical borough of the era. When an electoral register was first compiled, before the 1832 election, the 1,925 electors included 701 freeholders and 189 scot and lot voters. The remaining electors would have qualified under the occupation franchise introduced for all boroughs by the Reform Act 1832, which also preserved the ancient right franchises of the existing electors. The twentieth century parliamentary historian Lewis Namier said that "New Shoreham was the first borough to be disenfranchised for corruption". Members of Parliament 1295–1640 1640–1885 Election results Elections in the 1830s Elections in the 1840s Goring's death caused a by-election. Elections in the 1850s Elections in the 1860s Burrell's death caused a by-election. Cave was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade, requiring a by-election. Elections in the 1870s Cave was appointed Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces and Paymaster General, requiring a by-election. Burrell's death caused a by-election. Elections in the 1880s See also Unreformed House of Commons Notes and references Victoria History of the County of Sussex – south part of the Rape of Bramber Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972) British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977) The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973) out of copyright Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832–1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976) D. Brunton & D. H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949) Adur District Parliamentary constituencies in South East England (historic) Politics of West Sussex Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1295 Constituencies of the Parliament