Clapham (UK Parliament constituency)

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

Clapham was a borough constituency in South London 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 February 1974 general election.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 References

[edit] Boundaries

1885-1918: In 1885 the constituency was established as a division of the parliamentary borough of Battersea and Clapham, in the northern part of the historic county of Surrey. It was based on the Clapham area of South London.

In 1889 the area was severed from Surrey and became part of the new County of London. In 1900 local government in London was reorganised. The constituency became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.

1918-1974: In the redistribution of 1918, the constituency became a division of Wandsworth. It consisted of the local government wards of Clapham North and Clapham South, with a part of Balham.

In 1965 the area became part of the London Borough of Lambeth and Greater London.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	John Fletcher Moulton, later Baron Moulton	Liberal
	1886	John Saunders Gilliat	Conservative
	1892	Percy Melville Thornton	Conservative
	1910	George Denison Faber, later the 1st Baron Wittenham	Conservative
	1918	Harry Greer	Conservative
	1918	Sir Arthur du Cros, Bt	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Sir John Leigh, Bt	Conservative
	1945	John Battley	Labour
	1950	Charles Gibson	Labour
	1959	Alan Glyn	Conservative
	1964	Margaret McKay	Labour
	1970	William Shelton	Conservative
1974		constituency abolished