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Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency)
Sudbury
was a
parliamentary constituency
which was represented in the
British House of Commons
. A
parliamentary borough
consisting of the town of
Sudbury
in
Suffolk
, it returned two
Members of Parliament
(MPs) from 1559 until it was disenfranchised for corruption in 1844. The Sudbury election of 1835, which
Charles Dickens
reported for the
Morning Chronicle
, is thought by many experts to be the inspiration for the famous Eatanswill election in his novel
Pickwick Papers
.
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