West Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)
| West Surrey | |
|---|---|
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Surrey |
| 1832–1885 | |
| Number of members | Two |
| Replaced by |
Mid Surrey (part in 1868) Chertsey, Guildford (remainder in 1885) |
| Created from | Haslemere and Surrey |
West Surrey (formally the Western division of Surrey) was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Surrey, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.
It was created under the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, and abolished for the 1885 general election.
Boundaries
1832-1885: The Hundreds of Blackheath, Copthorne, Effingham, Elmbridge, Farnham, Godalming, Godley and Chertsey, Woking and Wotton.[1]
The constituency was therefore the more extensive and more rural of the two divisions of Surrey established in 1832; Its main existing towns were urbanising with railway stations: Woking became a town towards the end of its existence. Elections were conducted at Guildford; other most populous towns comprised Leatherhead, Dorking, Epsom, Ewell, Farnham, Godalming, Haslemere, Chertsey, Egham, Walton-on-Thames, Weybridge and Woking. (Guildford was a borough returning Members of Parliament in its own right, but freeholders within the borough boundaries could, nevertheless, vote for the county division if they did not qualify for a vote in the borough.)
Subdivision in 1885
On its abolition in 1885, what remained of West Surrey, land and populations having been taken away to contribute over half of Mid Surrey in 1868, was divided into two new single-member constituencies:
Members of Parliament
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | William Denison | Whig | John Leach | Whig | ||
| 1835 | Charles Barclay | Conservative | ||||
| 1837 | Hon. George Perceval | Conservative | ||||
| 1840 by-election | John Trotter | Conservative | ||||
| 1847 | Henry Drummond | Conservative | ||||
| 1849 by-election | William Evelyn | Conservative | ||||
| 1857 | John Ivatt Briscoe | Liberal | ||||
| 1860 by-election | George Cubitt | Conservative | ||||
| 1870 by-election | Lee Steere | Conservative | ||||
| 1880 | Hon. St John Brodrick | Conservative | ||||
| 1885 | constituency abolished | |||||
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Frederic A Youngs, jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- ↑ "The statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 & 3 William IV. Cap. LXIV. An Act to settle and describe the Divisions of Counties, and the Limits of Cities and Boroughs, in England and Wales, in so far as respects the Election of Members to serve in Parliament.". London: His Majesty's statute and law printers. 1832. pp. 300–383. Retrieved 2017-07-27.