Harrow (UK Parliament constituency)
Harrow | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–1945 | |
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.
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
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
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
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) | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Ambrose | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Elections in the 1890s
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 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Ambrose | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Ambrose | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
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
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 | |||
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;
- Unionist: Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley
- Liberal: Harry Evan Auguste Cotton
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 | |||
- endorsed by Coalition Government
Elections in the 1920s
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 | ||||
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 | |||
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 | ||||
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
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 | ||||
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;
- Conservative: Sir Isidore Salmon
- Labour: Maurice S Davidson[17]
- British Union: Harry Frisby[18]
Elections in the 1940s
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 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
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- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
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- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
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- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
- ↑ British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State by N. Copsey, D. Renton
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 347. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 425. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Skidelsky, R. (1980) [1975]. Oswald Mosley (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. p. 75. ISBN 0333293851.
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