Brentford and Chiswick (UK Parliament constituency)

Brentford and Chiswick
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1950–February 1974
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Brentford and Isleworth
1918–1950
Number of members	one
Type of constituency	County constituency
Created from	Brentford

Brentford and Chiswick was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Brentford and Chiswick districts of west London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Boundaries

Brentford and Chiswick in Middlesex 1918-45

Brentford and Chiswick in Middlesex 1945-50

This former constituency is located in the south-west of the historic county of Middlesex, in what is now west London. It was established as a division of the county, named after the towns of Brentford and Chiswick. In the 1885-1918 distribution of parliamentary seats it had been the southern part of the Brentford division.

In 1918 the constituency comprised the Brentford and the Chiswick Urban Districts. In 1927 the two districts were combined to form a single Brentford and Chiswick Urban District, which in 1932 became the Municipal Borough of Brentford and Chiswick. In 1950 the boundaries of the seat were left unchanged, but it was reclassified as a borough constituency.

In 1965 Brentford and Chiswick became part of the London Borough of Hounslow and Greater London.

In the redistribution of parliamentary seats, which took effect at the February 1974 general election, this seat was abolished and replaced by Brentford and Isleworth.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Walter Morden	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Walter Morden	Conservative
	1931	Harold Mitchell	Conservative
	1945	Francis Noel-Baker	Labour
	1950	Percy Lucas	Conservative
	1959	Dudley Smith	Conservative
	1966	Michael Cecil John Barnes	Labour
Feb 1974		constituency abolished: see Brentford & Isleworth

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Brentford & Chiswick^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Walter Grant Peterson Morden	9,077
	Labour	William Haywood	2,620
	Independent	Mrs Rachel Strachey	1,263
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist win

denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

Rachel Strachey

General Election 1922: Brentford & Chiswick^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Walter Grant Peterson Morden	10,150
	Independent	Mrs Rachel Strachey	7,804
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Brentford & Chiswick ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Walter Grant Peterson Morden	9,648
	Independent	Mrs Rachel Strachey	4,828
	Labour	William Haywood	3,216
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Brentford and Chiswick ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Walter Grant Peterson Morden	14,025	48.5
	Labour	Stella Churchill	10,918	37.8
	Liberal	John Stevenson	3,957	13.7
Majority			3,107	10.7
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

1955 General Election :

Percy Belgrave Lucas Conservative 18,489 53.02%

Alexander Warnock Filson Labour 16,384 46.98%

Electorate: 42,528; Turnout: 82.00%; Majority: 2,105 (6.04%)

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Brentford and Chiswick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dudley Smith	14,019	46.1
	Labour	D.W. Chalkley	13,475	44.3
	Liberal	M.D. Jones	2,951	9.7
Majority			544	1.8
Turnout			30,445	79.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Brentford and Chiswick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Cecil John Barnes	14,638	47.6	+3.3
	Conservative	Dudley Smith	14,031	45.7	−0.4
	Liberal	G.R. King	2,063	6.7	−3.0
Majority			607	2.0
Turnout			30,732	82.1	+2.9
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+1.9

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Brentford and Chiswick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Cecil John Barnes	14,051	50.9	+3.3
	Conservative	O.C. Wright	13,538	49.1	+2.8
Majority			513	1.9
Turnout			27,589	73.2	−8.9
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.8

References

↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)

Historic constituencies in London

1918	Balham and Tooting Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey West Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Camberwell North Camberwell North West Clapham Dulwich Chelsea City of London Deptford Finsbury Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn Islington East Islington North Islington South Islington West Kennington Kensington North Kensington South Lambeth North Lewisham East Lewisham West Limehouse Mile End Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar South Putney Rotherhithe St Marylebone St Pancras North St Pancras South East St Pancras South West Shoreditch Southwark Central Southwark North Southwark South East Stoke Newington Streatham Wandsworth Central Westminster Abbey Westminster St George's Whitechapel and St George's Woolwich East Woolwich West

1950	Barnet Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Streatham Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

1955	Barnet Barons Court Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hammersmith North Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Streatham Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

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