title: Parliamentary representation from Rutland
text: # Parliamentary representation from Rutland
  
  The historic county of Rutland in the east midlands of England was represented in Parliament from the 13th century. This article provides a list of constituencies constituting the Parliamentary representation from Rutland.
  
  The historic county was a single constituency, for parliamentary purposes, until 1918. From that year the county was linked with a part of a neighbouring historic county, first Lincolnshire and then Leicestershire.
  
  The first part of this article covers the constituency wholly within the area of the historic county of Rutland, before 1918. The second part refers to constituencies mostly in another historic county, which included the historic county of Rutland. The summaries section only refers to the constituencies included in the first section of the constituency list.
  
  ## List of constituencies
  
  Article names are followed by (UK Parliament constituency). The constituency which existed in 1707 were those previously represented in the Parliament of England.
  
  Key to abbreviations:-
  
  * (Type) BC Borough constituency, CC County constituency.
  * (Administrative County in Notes) Le administrative/shire county of Leicestershire, Li administrative/shire county of Lincolnshire, R historic county of Rutland.
  
  ### Constituency in the historic county
  
  | Constituency | Type | From | To | MPs | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Rutland | CC | 1290 | 1918 | 2 (1290-1885) | R |
  | Rutland | CC | 1290 | 1918 | 1 (1885–1918) | R |
  
  ### Constituencies mostly in another historic county
  
  | Constituency | Type | From | To | MPs | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Rutland and Melton | CC | 1983 | * | 1 | R/Le |
  | Rutland and Stamford | CC | 1918 | 1983 | 1 | R/Li |
  
  ### Periods constituencies represented
  
  | | 1290–1918 | 1918–1983 | 1983–* |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Rutland | 1290–1918 | | |
  | Rutland and Melton | | | 1983–* |
  | Rutland and Stamford | | 1918–1983 | |
  
  ## Summaries
  
  ### Summary of Constituencies by Type and Period
  
  | Type | 1290-1918 |
  | - | - |
  | County | 1 |
  | Total | 1 |
  
  ### Summary of Members of Parliament by Type and Period
  
  | Type | 1290-1885 | 1885-1918 |
  | - | - | - |
  | County | 2 | 1 |
  | Total | 2 | 1 |
  