Carshalton (UK Parliament constituency)

Carshalton
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1945 (1945)–1983 (1983)
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Carshalton and Wallington
Created from	Mitcham

Carshalton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Carshalton suburb of London, in what is now the London Borough of Sutton. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1945 general election, from part of the Mitcham seat, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Carshalton and Wallington.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1945	Antony Head	Conservative
	1960 by-election	Walter Elliot	Conservative
	Feb 1974	Robert Carr	Conservative
	1976 by-election	Nigel Forman	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished: see Carshalton and Wallington

Election results

General Election 1979: Carshalton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nigel Forman	26,492	51.3
	Labour	MG Ormerod	16,121	31.22
	Liberal	J Hatherley	8,112	15.71
	National Front	Terry Denville-Faulkner	919	1.78
Majority			10,371	3.8
Turnout			51,645	76.79

Carshalton North by-election 1976
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nigel Forman	20,753	51.69	+6.29
	Labour	Colin Blau	11,021	27.49	-10.46
	Liberal	John Hatherley	6,028	15.01	-1.65
	National Front	Terry Denville-Faulkner	1,851	4.61
	Conservative Anti-Common Market	Reginald Simmerson	251	0.63
	Logic Party	William Dunmore	133	0.33
	Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident	Bill Boaks	115	0.29
Turnout			40,152

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)