Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)

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Camborne
County constituency
Created: 1885
Abolished: 1950
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Camborne was a county constituency in Cornwall which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Falmouth and Camborne.

Between 1885 and 1918 its official name was The North West or Camborne Division of Cornwall, and it was sometimes referred to simply as North West Cornwall.

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[edit] Boundaries

The Camborne constituency shown within Cornwall and Devon, 1918-1945.
The Camborne constituency shown within Cornwall and Devon, 1918-1945.


[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1885 Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare Independent Liberal (Radical)
1886 Liberal
1895 Arthur Strauss Conservative
1900 William Sproston Caine Liberal
1903 Sir Wilfrid Lawson Liberal
1906 Albert Edward Dunn Liberal
1910 Sir Francis Dyke Acland Liberal
1922 Algernon Henry Moreing National Liberal
1923 Leifchild Stratten Jones Liberal
1924 Algernon Henry Moreing Constitutionalist
1929 Leifchild Stratten Jones Liberal
1931 Sir Peter Garnett Agnew Conservative
1950 constituency abolished

[edit] Election results


[edit] References