Holborn (UK Parliament constituency)

Holborn
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Number of members one
Replaced by Holborn and St Pancras South
Created from Finsbury

Holborn was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holborn district of Central London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Holborn in the Metropolitan area, showing boundaries used from 1885 to 1918.
Holborn in the Parliamentary County of London, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1950.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Holborn & St Pancras South.

Boundaries

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of-

1918-1950: The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1885 Francis Duncan Conservative
1888 Gainsford Bruce Conservative
1892 Sir Charles Hall Conservative
1900 Sir James Remnant Conservative
1918 Coalition Conservative
1922 Conservative
1928 Stuart James Bevan Conservative
1935 Sir Robert Tasker Conservative
1945 Max Aitken Conservative
1950 constituency abolished: see Holborn and St Pancras South

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John William Maxwell Aitken 6,061 54.1
Labour Irene Marcouse 5,136 45.9
Majority 925 8.2
Turnout 16,394 68.3
Conservative hold Swing -18.8

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Robert Inigo Tasker 11,654 72.9
Labour Richard S. Jeffries 4,325 27.1
Majority 7,329 45.8
Turnout 32,641 49.0
Conservative hold Swing -11.8
General Election 1931: Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stuart James Bevan 16,094 84.7
Labour Fitzroy W. Hickinbottom 2,916 15.3
Majority 13,178 69.4
Turnout 33,543 56.7
Conservative hold Swing +19.1

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stuart James Bevan KC 10,093 56.8
Labour Fitzroy W. Hickinbottom 4,530 25.5
Liberal Thomas Edward Morton 3,150 17.7
Majority 5,563 31.3
Turnout 32,862 54.1
Conservative hold Swing -3.7
Holborn by-election, 1928: 28 June 1928
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stuart James Bevan 6,365 59.7
Labour Percy Allott 2,238 21.0
Liberal Thomas Edward Morton 2,062 19.3
Majority 4,127 38.7
Turnout 27,357 39.0
Conservative hold Swing -6.2
General Election 1924: Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir James Farquharson Remnant, Bt. 11,428 75.5
Labour W.W. Messer 3,718 24.5
Majority 7,710 51.0
Turnout 27,490 55.1
Conservative hold Swing +3.5
General Election 1923: Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir James Farquharson Remnant, Bt. 7,892 59.4
Liberal John Salter Stooke-Vaughan 3,349 25.2
Labour Augustus West 2,044 15.4
Majority 4,543 34.2
Turnout 27,218 48.8
Conservative hold Swing -3.4
General Election 1922: Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir James Farquharson Remnant, Bt. 8,996 70.5
Liberal John Salter Stooke-Vaughan 3,757 29.5
Majority 5,239 41.0
Turnout 26,991 47.2
Conservative hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Sir James Farquharson Remnant 6,874 86.3
Independent Labour John Hazelwood Worrall 1,091 13.7
Majority 5,783 72.6
Turnout 20,371 39.1
Unionist hold Swing N/A
General Election December 1910: Finsbury, Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Farquharson Remnant 4,313 72.8
Liberal Charles Ralph Cooke-Taylor 1,615 27.2
Majority 2,698 45.6
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing +4.6
General Election January 1910: Finsbury, Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Farquharson Remnant 4,847 68.2
Liberal Sir Richard Stapley 2,262 31.8
Majority 2,585 36.4
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing +9.3

Elections in the 1900s (decade)

General Election 1906: Finsbury, Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Farquharson Remnant 3,881 58.9
Liberal S. Miall 2,706 41.1
Majority 1,175 17.8
Turnout 9,242 71.3
Conservative hold Swing N/A
General Election 1900: Finsbury, Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Farquharson Remnant unopposed
Turnout 10,903 N/A
Conservative hold Swing N/A
Holborn by-election, 1900: 23 March 1900
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Farquharson Remnant unopposed
Turnout 10,903 N/A
Conservative hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1895: Finsbury, Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Charles Hall unopposed
Turnout 11,717 N/A
Conservative hold Swing N/A
Holborn by-election, 1892: 12 August 1892
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Charles Hall unopposed
Turnout 12,214 N/A
Conservative hold Swing N/A
General Election 1892: Finsbury, Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gainsford Bruce 4,949 66.6
Lib-Lab G. Bateman 2,477 33.4
Majority 2,472 33.2
Turnout 12,214 60.8
Conservative hold Swing +10.4

Elections in the 1880s

Holborn by-election, 1888: 29 November 1888
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gainsford Bruce 4,398 56.2
Liberal Earl Compton 3,433 43.8
Majority 965 12.4
Turnout 11,383 68.8
Conservative hold Swing -9.0
General Election 1886: Finsbury, Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Francis Duncan 3,651 65.2
Liberal Dadabhai Naoroji 1,950 34.8
Majority 1,701 30.4
Turnout 9,802 57.1
Conservative hold Swing +3.1
General Election 1885: Finsbury, Holborn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Francis Duncan 4,047 62.1
Liberal Charles Harrison 2,473 37.9
Majority 1,574 24.2
Turnout 9,802 66.5

References

  1. ↑ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule