Lewes is a constituency[n 1] in East Sussex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by James MacCleary, a Liberal Democrat.

The constituency includes the town of Lewes, most of the Lewes District, including the coastal towns of Seaford and Newhaven, Polegate and Alfriston all in outer parts of the London Commuter Belt, though with a high number of people who have retired from across the country.

This is the county town, though less significant in population today, far surpassed by the City of Brighton and Hove — it has nonetheless been continuously represented since that date.

The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; Kemp resigned, causing a by-election.

On petition, Harford was unseated, due to bribery and corruption,[47] and Fitzroy was declared elected on 21 March 1842.

Elphinstone resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.