East Yorkshire was a county constituency for the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, established for 1997 general election.

It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years by the first-past-the-post electoral system.

The constituency represented northern part of the East Riding of Yorkshire county.

His successor Greg Knight had previously represented the marginal seat of Derby North from 1983 until he was defeated in the 1997 general election.

[citation needed] Since the creation of the constituency until its abolition in 2024 it was Conservative safe seat and ranked 170th in terms of their share of the vote of their 631 candidates, with an approximately equally divided opposition in 2010.