Strand (UK Parliament constituency)

Strand
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)–1918 (1918)
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Westminster Abbey
Created from	Westminster

Strand was a parliamentary constituency in the Strand district of the City of Westminster. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Strand in the Metropolitan area, showing boundaries used from 1885 to 1918.

History

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election. It corresponded to the following areas of civil administration:

• Liberty of the Rolls
• St Anne Within the Liberty of Westminster
• St Clement Danes
• St Mary le Strand
• St Paul Covent Garden
• Precinct of the Savoy

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Henry Smith	Conservative
	1891 by-election	William Frederick Danvers Smith	Conservative
	1910 (Jan)	Walter Hume Long	Conservative
1918		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General Election December 1910: Strand
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Walter Hume Long	4,143	78.5
	Liberal	Samuel Robert Earle	1,138	21.5
Majority			3,005	57.0
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.7

General Election January 1910: Strand
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Walter Hume Long	4,840	74.8
	Liberal	Leonard Wilfred James Costello	1,627	25.2
Majority			3,213	49.6
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing	+6.8

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1906: Strand
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Frederick Danvers Smith	3,935	68.0
	Liberal	Alexander Waldemar Lawrence	1,854	32.0
Majority			2,081	36.0
Turnout			8,109	71.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1900: Strand
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Frederick Danvers Smith	unopposed
Turnout			9,891	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1895: Strand
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Frederick Danvers Smith	unopposed
Turnout			10,596	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1892: Strand
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Frederick Danvers Smith	unopposed
Turnout			11,011	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Strand by-election, October 1891
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Frederick Danvers Smith	4,952	71.8
	Liberal	Dr. R.S. Gutteridge	1,946	28.2
Majority			3,006	43.6
Turnout			11,081	62.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Strand by-election, May 1891
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Henry Smith	unopposed
Turnout				N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1880s

Strand by-election, 1886
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Henry Smith	unopposed
Turnout				N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1886: Strand
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Henry Smith	5,034	76.9
	Liberal	John Edwin Hilary Skinner	1,508	23.1
Majority			3,526	53.8
Turnout			11,264	58.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+7.5

General Election 1885: Strand
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Henry Smith	5,645	69.4
	Liberal	Edmund George Johnson	2,486	30.6
Majority			3,159	38.8
Turnout			11,264	72.2

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)