Harrow (UK Parliament constituency)
| Harrow | |
|---|---|
|
Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1885–1945 | |
| Number of members | one |
| Replaced by | Ealing West, Harrow West and Wembley South |
| Created from | Middlesex |
Harrow was a parliamentary constituency mostly within the Hendon Urban District in Middlesex (now part of Greater London). It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Harrow constituency within Middlesex, showing boundaries used from 1918-45.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | William Ambrose | Conservative | |
| 1899 by-election | Irwin Cox | Conservative | |
| 1906 | James Gibb | Liberal | |
| Jan. 1910 | Harry Mallaby-Deeley | Conservative | |
| 1918 | Oswald Ernald Mosley | Conservative | |
| 1922 | Independent | ||
| 1924 | Labour | ||
| 1924 | Sir Isidore Salmon | Conservative | |
| 1941 by-election | Norman Bower | Conservative | |
| 1945 | constituency abolished: see Harrow East and Harrow West | ||
Election results
Elections in the 1900s
James Gibb
| General Election 1906: Harrow[1]
Electorate 28,627 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | James Gibb | 11,393 | 50.9 | n/a | |
| Liberal Unionist | Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel | 10,977 | 49.1 | n/a | |
| Majority | 416 | 1.8 | n/a | ||
| Turnout | 22,370 | 78.1 | n/a | ||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | n/a | |||
References
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 347. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 425. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.