West Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)
West Surrey | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Surrey |
1832–1885 | |
Seats | Two |
Created from | Haslemere and Surrey |
Replaced by | Mid Surrey (part in 1868) Chertsey, Guildford (remainder in 1885) |
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 1832–33 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 results
Elections in the 1850s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William John Evelyn | 1,646 | 35.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Drummond | 1,610 | 34.7 | N/A | |
Whig | Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner[7] | 1,385 | 29.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 225 | 4.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,013 (est) | 77.3 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 4,081 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative gain from Whig | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | John Ivatt Briscoe | 1,439 | 35.7 | +5.9 | |
Conservative | William Drummond | 1,386 | 34.4 | −0.3 | |
Conservative | Henry Currie[8] | 1,204 | 29.9 | −5.6 | |
Majority | 53 | 1.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,734 (est) | 69.7 (est) | −7.6 | ||
Registered electors | 3,920 | ||||
Whig gain from Conservative | Swing | +5.9 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Ivatt Briscoe | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | William Drummond | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,958 | ||||
Liberal hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1860s
Drummond's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | George Cubitt | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Ivatt Briscoe | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | George Cubitt | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,081 | ||||
Liberal hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | George Cubitt | 3,000 | 39.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | John Ivatt Briscoe | 2,826 | 37.3 | N/A | |
Liberal | Frederick Pennington | 1,757 | 23.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 174 | 2.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,292 (est) | 78.9 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 6,708 | ||||
Liberal hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1870s
Briscoe's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Lee Steere | Unopposed | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Lee Steere | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | George Cubitt | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,314 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Liberal |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Brodrick | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | George Cubitt | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,779 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
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References
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