Brixton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Brixton
Borough constituency
Created: 1885
Abolished: 1974
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Brixton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Brixton district of South 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 February 1974 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Lambeth Central constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1885 Ernest Baggallay Conservative
1887 George Osborne, later Duke of Leeds Conservative
1896 Evelyn Hubbard Conservative
1900 Sir Robert Gray Cornish Mowbray Conservative
1906 Joel Herbert Seaverns Liberal
1910 Davison Alexander Dalziel, later Baron Dalziel Conservative
1923 Frederick Joseph Lavarack Liberal
1924 Davison Alexander Dalziel, later Baron Dalziel Unionist
1927 Nigel Claudian Dalziel Colman Conservative
1945 Marcus Lipton Labour
1974 constituency abolished: see Lambeth Central

[edit] Election results

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