Carshalton (UK Parliament constituency)

Carshalton
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1945–1983
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Carshalton and Wallington
Created from	Mitcham

Carshalton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Carshalton suburb of London, in what is now the London Borough of Sutton. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1945 general election, from part of the Mitcham seat, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Carshalton and Wallington.

Boundaries

1945–1974: The Urban Districts of Banstead and Carshalton

1974–1983: The London Borough of Sutton wards of Beddington North, Beddington South, Carshalton Central, Carshalton North East, Carshalton North West, Carshalton St Helier North, Carshalton St Helier South, Carshalton St Helier West, Carshalton South East, Carshalton South West, Wallington Central, Wallington North, and Wallington South

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1945	Antony Head	Conservative	Resigned 1960 on being raised to the peerage
	1960 by-election	Walter Elliot	Conservative
	Feb 1974	Robert Carr	Conservative	Previously MP for Mitcham from 1950. Resigned 1976 on being raised to the peerage
	1976 by-election	Nigel Forman	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished: see Carshalton and Wallington

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Carshalton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Antony Henry Head	20,181	45.34
	Labour	William F Hawkins	19,164	43.05
	Liberal	Wilfrid John Wilson Croker Barrow	5,167	11.61
Majority			1,017	2.28
Turnout				77.07

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Carshalton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Antony Henry Head	29,493	52.52
	Labour	Dr S Sharman	21,536	38.35
	Liberal	Dennis W Clarke	5,132	9.14
Majority			7,957	14.17
Turnout				88.14

General Election 1951: Carshalton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Antony Henry Head	32,634	58.73
	Labour	Clifford H Davies	22,928	41.27
Majority			9,706	17.47
Turnout				85.07

General Election 1955: Carshalton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Antony Henry Head	30,429	55.70
	Labour	Harvey R Cole	18,924	34.64
	Liberal	Jack Henry Gordon Browne	5,277	9.66
Majority			11,505	21.06
Turnout				80.87

General Election 1959: Carshalton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Antony Henry Head	30,454	53.99
	Labour	John H Powell	17,210	30.51
	Liberal	Jack Henry Gordon Browne	8,744	15.50
Majority			13,244	23.48
Turnout				82.48

Elections in the 1960s

Carshalton by-election, 1960

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Walter Elliot	19,175	51.66	-2.33
	Liberal	Jack Henry Gordon Browne	10,250	27.61	+12.11
	Labour	Brian Thomas	7,696	20.73	-9.78
Majority			8,925	24.04	+0.56
Turnout

General Election 1964: Carshalton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Walter Elliot	26,118	48.88
	Labour	Brian Thomas	16,105	30.14
	Liberal	Jack Henry Gordon Browne	11,207	20.98
Majority			10,013	18.74
Turnout				80.18

General Election 1966: Carshalton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Walter Elliot	24,615	47.02
	Labour	Philip John Bassett	18,746	35.81
	Liberal	Jack Henry Gordon Browne	8,988	17.17
Majority			5,869	11.21
Turnout				79.35

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Carshalton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Walter Elliot	27,342	53.98
	Labour	Gilbert S Baker	16,896	33.36
	Liberal	Jack Henry Gordon Browne	6,411	12.66
Majority			10,446	20.62
Turnout				71.17

General Election February 1974: Carshalton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Leonard Robert Carr	24,440	44.53
	Labour	PJ Walker	18,750	34.16
	Liberal	Hester Margaret Gatty Smallbone	11,695	21.31
Majority			5,690	10.37
Turnout				82.89

General Election October 1974: Carshalton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Leonard Robert Carr	22,538	45.4	0.9
	Labour	Bernard Frances Atherton	18,840	38	3.8
	Liberal	Hester Margaret Gatty Smallbone	8,272	16.7	−4.7
Majority			3,698	7.4
Turnout			49,650	74.3	−8.6

Carshalton by-election 1976^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Francis Nigel Forman	20,753	51.69	+6.29
	Labour	Colin Blau	11,021	27.49	-10.46
	Liberal	John Hatherley	6,028	15.01	-1.65
	National Front	Terry Denville-Faulkner[2]	1,851	4.61
	Conservative Anti-Common Market	Reginald Simmerson	251	0.63
	Logic Party	William Dunmore	133	0.33
	Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident	William George Boaks	115	0.29
Majority			9,732	24.2
Turnout			40,152

General Election 1979: Carshalton^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Francis Nigel Forman	26,492	51.3
	Labour	MG Ormerod	16,121	31.22
	Liberal	John Hatherley	8,112	15.71
	National Front	Terry Denville-Faulkner	919	1.78
Majority			10,371	20.08
Turnout			51,645	76.79

References

1. http://web.archive.org/web/20120314034528/http://by-elections.co.uk/76.html
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
3. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge79/i05.htm

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)