Richmond (Surrey) (UK Parliament constituency)

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Richmond Borough constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Richmond was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Lambeth district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 5 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was replaced by the new Richmond & Barnes constituency.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Clifford Blackburn Edgar	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Harry Thomas Alfred Becker	Independent Conservative
	1922		Conservative
	1924	Sir Newton James Moore
	1932	Sir William Ray	Conservative
	1937	Sir George Steven Harvie-Watt	Conservative
	1959	Sir Anthony Henry Fanshawe Royle	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished: see Richmond & Barnes

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.