sentences:  At the 1865 general election Sykes was elected Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Beverley.At the 1868 general election he was elected MP for the East Riding of Yorkshire, which he held until 1885, when it was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.He was then elected for Buckrose, one of the constituencies into which his previous constituency had been divided, which he held until 1892, when he retired.