Harrow (UK Parliament constituency)

Harrow
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
18851945
Number of members one
Replaced by Ealing West, Harrow West and Wembley South
Created from Middlesex

Harrow was a parliamentary constituency in Middlesex (now part of Greater London). It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Harrow within Middlesex 1918-45

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election.

Boundaries

1918-1945: The Urban Districts of Harrow on the Hill, Greenford, Hanwell, Wealdstone, and Wembley.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1885 William Ambrose Conservative
1899 by-election Irwin Cox Conservative
1906 James Gibb Liberal
Jan. 1910 Harry Mallaby-Deeley Conservative
1918 Oswald Ernald Mosley Conservative
1922 Independent
1924 Labour
1924 Sir Isidore Salmon Conservative
1941 by-election Norman Bower Conservative
1945 constituency abolished: see Harrow East and Harrow West

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

Milner
General Election 1885: Harrow [1][2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative William Ambrose 4,214 56.5 n/a
Liberal Alfred Milner 3,241 43.5 n/a
Majority 973 13.0 n/a
Turnout 71.4 n/a
Conservative win (new seat)
General Election 1886: Harrow [1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative William Ambrose unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1890s

Ambrose
General Election 1892: Harrow [1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative William Ambrose 6,047 63.8 n/a
Liberal Isaac Thomas Sadler 3,428 36.2 n/a
Majority 2,619 27.6 n/a
Turnout 67.8 n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a
General Election 1895: Harrow [1][2][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative William Ambrose unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a
Harrow by-election, 1895[1][2][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative William Ambrose unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a
Harrow by-election, 1899 [1][2][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox 6,303 54.8 n/a
Liberal J Corrie Grant 5,198 45.2 n/a
Majority 1,105 9.6 n/a
Turnout 62.4 n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Harrow [1][2][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a
James Gibb
General Election 1906: Harrow [1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal James Gibb 11,393 50.9 n/a
Liberal Unionist Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel 10,977 49.1 n/a
Majority 416 1.8 n/a
Turnout 22,370 78.1 n/a
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing n/a

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Harrow [1][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley 16,761 55.3 +6.2
Liberal Percy Alfred Harris 13,575 44.7 -6.2
Majority 3,186 10.6 12.4
Turnout 85.7 +7.6
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +6.2
General Election December 1910: Harrow [1][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley unopposed n/a n/a
Conservative hold Swing n/a

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Mosley
General Election 1918: Harrow[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist 13,950 82.3
Independent Unionist Arthur Robert Chamberlayne 3,007 17.7 n/a
Majority 10,934 64.5
Turnout 16,957
Unionist hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Harrow[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Independent Oswald Ernald Mosley 15,290 60.8
Unionist Edward Hugh Frederick Morris 7,868 39.2
Majority 7,422 32.0
Turnout 23,158
Independent gain from Unionist Swing
General Election 1923: Harrow[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Independent Oswald Ernald Mosley 14,079 59.9 -6.1
Unionist Edward Hugh Frederick Morris 9,433 40.1 +6.1
Majority 4,646 19.8 -12.2
Turnout 64.5
Independent hold Swing -6.1
General Election 1924: Harrow[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Isidore Salmon 16,526
Labour Kenneth Martin Lindsay 9,507
Liberal Sir Robert Blair 4,320
Majority
Turnout
Unionist gain from Independent Swing
General Election 1929: Harrow[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Isidore Salmon 22,466 42.7
Labour Hubert Beaumont 15,684 29.8
Liberal Clement Edward Page Taylor 12,554 23.8
Independent WJ Sholl 1,965 3.7 n/a
Majority 6,782 12.9
Turnout 52,669
Unionist hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Harrow[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Isidore Salmon 48,068 71.0
Labour George Sommerville Sandilands 14,241 21.0
Liberal Henry Cecil Banting 5,444 8.0
Majority 33,827 49.9
Turnout 67,753 72.1
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1935: Harrow[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Sir Isidore Salmon 52,729 62.7
Labour Helen Caroline Bentwich 31,422 37.3
Majority 21,307 25.3
Turnout 84,151 64.4
Conservative hold Swing

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

Elections in the 1940s

Harrow by-election, 1941[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Norman Adolph Henry Bower 14,540 80.9
Independent Miss Winifred Henney 3,433 19.1
Majority 11,107 61.8
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The Liberal Year Book, 1907
  3. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
  4. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  5. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  6. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  7. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  8. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
  9. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
  10. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  11. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  12. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  13. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  14. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  15. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  16. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  17. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
  18. British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State by N. Copsey, D. Renton
  19. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
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