Westminster St George's (UK Parliament constituency)
Westminster St George's | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | County of London |
1885–1950 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Westminster |
Replaced by | Cities of London and Westminster |
Westminster St George's, originally named St George's, Hanover Square, was a parliamentary constituency in Central London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system of election.
History
[edit]The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was then named "St George Hanover Square" after the parish of the same name.
It was renamed in 1918 as "Westminster St George's", and abolished in 1950.
Boundaries
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1885–1918
[edit]From 1885 to 1918, when the constituency was known as St George Hanover Square, it was defined as being coterminous with the civil parish of the same name.[1] In 1900 the parish was included for local government purposes in the area of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster. This did not affect the name or boundaries of the constituency until 1918.[2]
1918–1950
[edit]The Boundary Commission report of 1918 (Cd. 8756), at Schedule-Part II no. 78, defined the constituency as the following wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster:
- Conduit: A small ward running from the top of Regent Street down through Hanover Square, the eastern side of Berkeley Square, and down to the Ritz on Piccadilly.
- Grosvenor: Covering the whole of Mayfair and the northern half of Hyde Park.
- Hamlet of Knightsbridge: The southern half of Hyde Park, together with Knightsbridge and part of the museums area north of South Kensington including the Royal Albert Hall.
- Knightsbridge St. George's: The area of Belgravia.
- Victoria: A very large ward running from Buckingham Palace south to include Victoria Station, and Pimlico.
The constituency also included "the part of the Charing Cross Ward which lies to the south and west of a line drawn from the ward boundary at the centre of Wellington Arch, along the middle of Constitution Hill, thence along the middle of the road to the north and east of the Queen Victoria Memorial, thence along the middle of Spur Road to boundary of St. Margaret Ward". This area included the remainder of the grounds of Buckingham Palace which were not in the Victoria Ward, but contained no electors. The boundary commissioners proposals were enacted by Schedule 9 of the Representation of the People Act 1918.
Members of Parliament
[edit]Elections
[edit]Elections in the 1880s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Algernon Percy | 5,256 | 67.7 | ||
Liberal | Walter Phillimore | 2,503 | 32.3 | ||
Majority | 2,753 | 35.4 | |||
Turnout | 7,759 | 73.9 | |||
Registered electors | 10,500 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Algernon Percy | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Percy's resignation caused a by-election.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | George Goschen | 5,702 | 78.7 | New | |
Liberal | James Haysman | 1,545 | 21.3 | New | |
Majority | 4,157 | 57.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,247 | 65.4 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 11,079 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1890s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | George Goschen | Unopposed | |||
Liberal Unionist hold |
Goschen was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | George Goschen | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | George Goschen | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1900s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Heneage Legge | 3,852 | 75.1 | N/A | |
Liberal | William Everitt | 1,278 | 24.9 | New | |
Majority | 2,574 | 50.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,130 | 52.2 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 9,820 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Heneage Legge | 4,264 | 66.1 | −9.0 | |
Liberal | Manmath Chandra Mallik | 2,191 | 33.9 | +9.0 | |
Majority | 2,073 | 32.2 | −18.0 | ||
Turnout | 6,455 | 69.0 | +16.8 | ||
Registered electors | 9,359 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −9.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Alfred Lyttelton | Unopposed | |||
Liberal Unionist hold |
Elections in the 1910s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Alfred Lyttelton | 5,383 | 78.6 | +12.5 | |
Liberal | Mackenzie Bell | 1,469 | 21.4 | −12.5 | |
Majority | 3,914 | 57.2 | +25.0 | ||
Turnout | 6,852 | 76.5 | +7.5 | ||
Registered electors | 8,954 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | +12.5 |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Alfred Lyttelton | 4,398 | 78.7 | +0.1 | |
Liberal | Mackenzie Bell | 1,188 | 21.3 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 3,210 | 57.4 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 5,586 | 62.4 | −14.1 | ||
Registered electors | 8,954 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | +0.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Alexander Henderson | Unopposed | |||
Unionist hold |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | George Reid | Unopposed | |||
Unionist hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Newton Moore | Unopposed | |||
Unionist hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Walter Long | 10,453 | 90.2 | +11.5 |
Liberal | Mackenzie Bell | 1,140 | 9.8 | −11.5 | |
Majority | 9,313 | 80.4 | +23.0 | ||
Turnout | 11,593 | 39.9 | −22.5 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | +11.5 | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Anti-Waste League | James Erskine | 7,244 | 57.5 | New | |
C | Unionist | Herbert Jessel | 5,356 | 42.5 | −47.7 |
Majority | 1,888 | 15.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 12,600 | 39.8 | −0.1 | ||
Anti-Waste League gain from Unionist | Swing | N/A | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ind. Unionist | James Erskine | 11,252 | 55.9 | New | |
Unionist | Leslie Wilson | 7,559 | 37.6 | −52.6 | |
Liberal | Mary Sophia Allen | 1,303 | 6.5 | −3.3 | |
Majority | 3,693 | 18.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 20,114 | 62.2 | +21.3 | ||
Ind. Unionist gain from Anti-Waste League | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Erskine | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Unionist gain from Ind. Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Erskine | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Laming Worthington-Evans | 22,448 | 78.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Joseph George Butler | 6,294 | 21.9 | New | |
Majority | 16,154 | 56.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,742 | 53.3 | N/A | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Duff Cooper | 17,242 | 59.9 | −18.2 | |
Ind. Conservative | Ernest Petter | 11,532 | 40.1 | New | |
Majority | 5,710 | 19.8 | −36.4 | ||
Turnout | 28,774 | 53.1 | −0.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Duff Cooper | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Duff Cooper | 25,424 | 84.6 | +6.5 | |
Labour | Anne Fremantle | 4,643 | 15.4 | −6.5 | |
Majority | 20,781 | 69.2 | +13.0 | ||
Turnout | 30,067 | 55.2 | +1.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Howard | 13,086 | 67.2 | −17.4 | |
Common Wealth | Wilfred Brown | 5,314 | 27.3 | New | |
Independent | Dorothy Crisp | 1,069 | 5.5 | New | |
Majority | 7,772 | 39.9 | −29.3 | ||
Turnout | 19,469 | 57.2 | +2.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
References
[edit]- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885 – 1918
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 – 1949
- ^ "Chap. 23. Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885". The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom passed in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of the reign of Queen Victoria. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1885. pp. 111–198.
- ^ London Government Act 1899, Schedule 1
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
- ^ Election results 1931 PoliticsResources