Times Guide to the House of Commons

The Times Guide to the House of Commons is a political reference guide book published by Times Newspapers giving coverage of general elections in the United Kingdom.

Following most general elections since 1880, the book has been published. The contents usually include the following;

The most recent version of the book tends to be available for around a year after publication, although older editions have in some cases become rare collector's items.

Books in the series

  • The Times Guide to the House of Commons, June 1983, Revised edition, 1984 (Times Books, London, 1984) - This is the only edition to have been printed in paperback.

Reprints

In 2003-4, Politico's Publishing reprinted two omnibus volumes containing the rare guides for 1910, 1911, 1919, 1929, 1931 and 1935. They had intended to research and publish original election guides for 1906, 1922, 1923 and 1924 - which were all years in which no election guide was produced - and David Boothroyd was commissioned for this project. However, a change of management at the company led to this being abandoned. [1] The omnibus books reprinted were:

These volumes reproduced every page of the originals, including adverts, except for the fold-out constituency maps.

There had also been plans to reprint the volumes for 1880-1900 in two more omnibuses, which were also abandoned with the change of management.

References

  1. Iain Dale, "Editor's Note", The Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1929, 1931, 1935 (Politico's, London, 2003) p.vii-viii