Kensington North (UK Parliament constituency)

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Kensington North Borough constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1974
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	One

Kensington North was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Kensington district 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 1885 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1950s 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Roper Lethbridge	Conservative
	1892	Frederick Charlwood Frye	Liberal
	1895	William Edward Thompson Sharpe	Conservative
	1906	Henry Yorke Stanger	Liberal
	Jan. 1910	Alan Hughes Burgoyne	Conservative
	1922	Percy George Gates	Conservative
	1929	Fielding Reginald West	Labour
	1931	James Duncan	Conservative
	1945	George Rogers	Labour
	1970	Bruce Douglas-Mann	Labour
1974		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Kensington North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Rogers	14,925	42.8	−11.2
	Conservative	R. Bulbrook	14,048	40.2	−5.8
	Liberal	M. Hydleman	3,118	8.9	N/A
	Union Movement	Sir Oswald Mosley	2,621	8.1	N/A
Majority			877	2.5	−5.3
Turnout			34,912	67.8	−1.9
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.7

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page