Brentford and Chiswick | |
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Former Borough constituency for theββHouse of Commons | |
1950βFebruary 1974 | |
Seats | one |
Replaced by | Brentford and Isleworth (newly created seat) (to form eastern part of) |
1918β1950 | |
Seats | one |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Created from | Brentford |
Replaced by | Brentford and "Chiswick borough constituency," above |
Brentford and Chiswick was a constituency 1918 β 1974 centred on the Brentford and Chiswick districts of Middlesex which became parts of west London in 1965. It returned one member (MP)ββto the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
Its electoral outcomes were Conservative except for siding with the Labour Party's victories which returned the Attlee Ministry (in 1945) and Second Wilson Ministry (in 1966).
Boundariesβ»
This former constituency is: toward the south-west of the historic county of Middlesex, in what is since 1965 west London. It was established as a division of the "county of Middlesex," named after the towns of Brentford and Chiswick. In the 1885β1918 distribution of parliamentary seats it had been the eastern part of the Brentford division.
In 1918 the constituency comprised the Brentford. And the Chiswick Urban Districts. In 1927 the two districts were combined to form a single Brentford and Chiswick Urban District, which in 1932 became the Municipal Borough of Brentford and Chiswick. In 1950 the boundaries of the seat were left unchanged. But it was reclassified as a borough constituency.
In 1965 Brentford and Chiswick became part of the London Borough of Hounslow and Greater London.
The seat rapidly became under-sized in electorate, see malapportionment β the area forming the seat was unusually declining in population, with in the 1918 to 1930 period the major loss of servants and lodgers among many of the larger houses particularly in Chiswick. And areas of reduction of overly dense housing in Brentford. Little space remained in the seat for new building compared with other seats to the west and north. The rest of the county saw major population growth. One key area of growth in this seat was instead in the number of commercial plants, yards and offices adjoining the 'Golden Mile', Brentford.
In the redistribution of parliamentary seats, which took effect at the February 1974 general election, this seat was replaced by, Brentford and Isleworth which took in the eastern half of abolished Heston and Isleworth.
Members of Parliamentβ»
Year | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Walter Morden | Coalition Conservative | |
1922 | Conservative | ||
1931 | Harold Mitchell | Conservative | |
1945 | Francis Noel-Baker | Labour | |
1950 | Percy Lucas | Conservative | |
1959 | Dudley Smith | Conservative | |
1966 | Michael Barnes | Labour | |
Feb 1974 | constituency abolished: see Brentford & Isleworth |
Election resultsβ»
Elections in the 1910sβ»
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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C | Unionist | Walter Grant Morden | 9,077 | 70.04 | |
Labour | William Haywood | 2,620 | 20.22 | ||
Independent | Ray Strachey | 1,263 | 9.75 | ||
Majority | 6,457 | 49.82 | |||
Turnout | 12,960 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Elections in the 1920sβ»
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Walter Grant Morden | 10,150 | 56.5 | β13.5 | |
Independent | Ray Strachey | 7,804 | 43.5 | +33.8 | |
Majority | 2,346 | 13.0 | β36.8 | ||
Turnout | 17,954 | 64.2 | +14.2 | ||
Registered electors | 27,960 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | β23.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Walter Grant Morden | 9,648 | 54.5 | β2.0 | |
Independent | Ray Strachey | 4,828 | 27.3 | β16.2 | |
Labour | William Haywood | 3,216 | 18.2 | New | |
Majority | 4,820 | 27.2 | +14.2 | ||
Turnout | 17,692 | 62.6 | β1.6 | ||
Registered electors | 28,245 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +7.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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Unionist | Walter Grant Morden | 12,098 | 58.3 | +3.8 | |
Labour | William Haywood | 6,114 | 29.5 | +11.3 | |
Liberal | J. C. Squire | 2,540 | 12.2 | New | |
Majority | 5,984 | 28.8 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 20,752 | 72.5 | +9.9 | ||
Registered electors | 28,606 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | β3.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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Unionist | Walter Grant Morden | 14,025 | 48.4 | β9.9 | |
Labour | Stella Churchill | 10,978 | 37.9 | +8.4 | |
Liberal | John Stevenson | 3,957 | 13.7 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 3,047 | 10.5 | β18.3 | ||
Turnout | 28,960 | 72.2 | β0.3 | ||
Registered electors | 40,088 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | β9.2 |
Elections in the 1930sβ»
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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Conservative | Harold Mitchell | 22,667 | 74.96 | +26.43 | |
Labour | George Catlin | 7,572 | 25.04 | -12.74 | |
Majority | 15,095 | 49.92 | +39.17 | ||
Turnout | 30,239 | 71.82 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +19.59 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Harold Mitchell | 17,568 | 65.40 | -9.56 | |
Labour | Frederick Wilson Temple | 9,296 | 34.60 | +9.56 | |
Majority | 8,272 | 30.80 | -19.12 | ||
Turnout | 26,864 | 64.19 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940sβ»
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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Labour | Francis Noel-Baker | 17,693 | 57.63 | +23.03 | |
Conservative | Harold Mitchell | 13,006 | 42.37 | -23.03 | |
Majority | 4,687 | 15.26 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 30,699 | 75.87 | +11.68 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +23.03 |
Elections in the 1950sβ»
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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Conservative | Laddie Lucas | 18,408 | 47.88 | +5.51 | |
Labour | Francis Noel-Baker | 17,551 | 45.65 | -11.98 | |
Liberal | Denis Faulkner Horne | 2,086 | 5.43 | +5.43 | |
Communist | J Parker | 401 | 1.04 | New | |
Majority | 857 | 2.23 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 38,446 | 87.67 | +11.80 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +8.75 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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Conservative | Laddie Lucas | 19,612 | 52.00 | +4.12 | |
Labour | Leonard Lewis | 18,102 | 48.00 | +2.35 | |
Majority | 1,510 | 4.00 | +1.77 | ||
Turnout | 37,714 | 86.19 | -1.48 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.89 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Laddie Lucas | 18,489 | 53.02 | +1.02 | |
Labour | Alexander Warnock Filson | 16,384 | 46.98 | -1.02 | |
Majority | 2,105 | 6.04 | +2.04 | ||
Turnout | 34,873 | 82.00 | -4.19 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.02 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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Conservative | Dudley Smith | 17,869 | 54.45 | +1.43 | |
Labour | Hugh Bruce Oliphant Cardew | 14,950 | 45.55 | -1.43 | |
Majority | 2,919 | 8.90 | +2.86 | ||
Turnout | 32,819 | 82.29 | +0.29 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.43 |
Elections in the 1960sβ»
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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Conservative | Dudley Smith | 14,019 | 46.05 | -8.40 | |
Labour | David W. Chalkley | 13,475 | 44.26 | -1.29 | |
Liberal | Meurig D Jones | 2,951 | 9.69 | New | |
Majority | 544 | 1.79 | -7.10 | ||
Turnout | 30,445 | 79.15 | -3.14 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.56 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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Labour | Michael Barnes | 14,638 | 47.63 | +3.37 | |
Conservative | Dudley Smith | 14,031 | 45.66 | β0.39 | |
Liberal | Geoffrey Roy King | 2,063 | 6.71 | β2.98 | |
Majority | 607 | 1.97 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 30,732 | 82.05 | +2.9 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +1.88 |
Elections in the 1970sβ»
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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Labour | Michael Barnes | 14,051 | 50.9 | +3.3 | |
Conservative | Oliver C Wright | 13,538 | 49.1 | +3.4 | |
Majority | 513 | 1.8 | -0.2 | ||
Turnout | 27,589 | 73.2 | β8.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | β0.1 |
Notesβ»
- ^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
Referencesβ»
- ^ 'Ealing and Brentford: Growth of Brentford', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7 (1982), pp. 113β20. Retrieved 11 June 2017
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918β1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918β1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918β1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918β1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918β1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918β1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918β1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918β1949, FWS Craig
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885β1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs β Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)
- History of the London Borough of Hounslow
- Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic)
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1974
- Politics of the London Borough of Hounslow
- Brentford, London
- Chiswick
- 1918 establishments in England
- 1974 disestablishments in England