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Epsom (UK Parliament constituency)

Epsom was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. From its creation in 1885 until its abolition in 1974, it was won by eight Conservatives. The winner took less than 50% of the votes in its contested elections once, in 1945, receiving 49.9% of the vote in a three-party contest. Six elections, the last being a by-election in 1912, were uncontested.

History

Geographical history

Creation and abolition

The seat was established under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 as the Mid or Epsom division of Surrey for the 1885 general election. The Mid designation was lesser used, since it could be misleading, as its extent until 1885 was a long strip to the east bounded by among other parishes: Lambeth, Streatham, Croydon, Burstow, Capel and Sutton.

Scope

The Act of 1885 set up the seat so as to comprise:[1]

Thus the seat drew on Mid Surrey as to Tolworth, New Malden, Malden, Worcester Park, Surbiton, Hook, Coombe and Long Ditton in the Kingston Hundred and Sessional Division. It drew on West Surrey as to: Ashtead; Banstead; Great Bookham; Little Bookham; Cheam; Chessington; Cuddington; Epsom; Ewell; Fetcham; Headley; Leatherhead; Sutton; Walton on the Hill; Cobham; Thames Ditton; Esher; East Molesey; West Molesey; Stoke D'Abernon; and Walton on Thames.[2][3][4]

The Representation of the People Act 1918 cut the area down to its south-eastern third namely:[5]

The Representation of the People Act 1948 confirmed a 1945-implemented split-up of all seats of more than 100,000 electors, of Sutton and Cheam Urban District to create Sutton and Cheam (UK Parliament constituency) to the north-east.[6] Removal of a broad western area to form Esher ensued in 1950. As such it remained in the 1970 review-implementing Order.[7] The 1983 reforms saw more than its renaming and technical abolition, the seat shed in the south the former Leatherhead Urban District to Mole Valley created that year.

The seat was abolished for the February 1974 general election, replaced by Epsom and Ewell except for its south which contributed to the new seat of Mole Valley.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Epsom and Kingston (comprising most of Elmbridge) as excluding "the part of the civil parish of Kingston [and] the Municipal Borough of Kingston-on-Thames", and the (mainly rural) civil parishes of Effingham and Mickleham to the south-west and south respectively.

1918–1945: The Urban Districts of Epsom, Leatherhead, and Sutton, and the Rural District of Epsom.

1945–1974: The Municipal Borough of Epsom and Ewell, and the Urban District of Leatherhead.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Epsom election history

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

William Keswick

Elections in the 1900s

Aston

Elections in the 1910s

Sir Albert Rollit
Henry Keswick

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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

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

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

See also

References

  1. ^ "Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, 48 & 49 Vict. C. 23". Proprietors of the Law Journal Reports – via archive.org.
  2. ^ "CHERTSEY PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION: RECORDS (summary of PS1-PS7 of Surrey History Centre, 7 Petty Sessional Divisions scope". National Archives. Archived from the original on 5 December 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  3. ^ Dickens, Jr, Charles (1879). "Combined petty sessional division: Kingston and Elmbridge as dealt with under heading Kingston sessional division in the 1885 Act". Dickens's Dictionary of London. Archived from the original on 5 December 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Redistribution of Seats Act 1885: Appendix D - county constituencies". Proprietors of the Law Journal Reports – via archive.org.
  5. ^ "Representation of the People Act 1918" (PDF). legislation.gov.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 February 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  6. ^ "Representation of the People Act 1948" (PDF). legislation.gov.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  7. ^ "SI 1970 No. 1674: The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1970" (PDF). legislation.gov.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  8. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)
  9. ^ a b c d Liberal Yearbook 1907.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
  11. ^ "Election Intelligence". London Evening Standard. 28 September 1885. p. 3. Retrieved 26 November 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. ^ a b c Debrett's House of Commons, 1901.
  13. ^ a b c Debrett's House of Commons, 1916
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h i j British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F. W. S. Craig, Political Reference Publications, Glasgow, 1949.
  15. ^ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973, by F. W. S. Craig, Political Reference Publications, Glasgow, 1973.

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