Brentford and Chiswick (UK Parliament constituency)

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Brentford and Chiswick
Borough constituency
Created: 1950
Abolished: 1974
Type: House of Commons
Members: one
Brentford and Chiswick
County constituency
Created: 1918
Abolished: 1950
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Brentford and Chiswick was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Brentford and Chiswick districts of West 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 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

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[edit] Boundaries

This former constituency is located in the south-west of the historic county of Middlesex, in what (in 2007) is West London. It was established as a division of the county, named after the towns of Brentford and Chiswick. In the 1885-1918 distribution of parliamentary seats it had been the southern 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.

In the redistribution of parliamentary seats, which took effect at the February 1974 general election, this seat was abolished and replaced by Brentford and Isleworth.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
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
1974 constituency abolished: see Brentford and Isleworth

[edit] Election results


[edit] References

  • Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page