Strand (UK Parliament constituency)
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Strand | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1885–1918 | |
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.
File:Strand1885.png
Strand in the Metropolitan area, showing boundaries used from 1885 to 1918.
Contents
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 Martin in the Fields
- St Mary le Strand
- St Paul Covent Garden
- Precinct of the Savoy
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Frederick Danvers Smith | unopposed | |||
Turnout | 9,891 | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Frederick Danvers Smith | unopposed | |||
Turnout | 10,596 | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Frederick Danvers Smith | unopposed | |||
Turnout | 11,011 | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Frederick Danvers Smith | 4,952 | 71.8 | ||
Liberal | Dr. Richard Sandon Gutteridge | 1,946 | 28.2 | ||
Majority | 3,006 | 43.6 | |||
Turnout | 11,081 | 62.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Henry Smith | unopposed | |||
Turnout | N/A | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Henry Smith | unopposed | |||
Turnout | N/A | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1885
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1918
- City of Westminster