Ealing (UK Parliament constituency)

Ealing
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1945
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Ealing East
Created from	Middlesex

Ealing was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Ealing district of west London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

History

Ealing in Middlesex 1918-45

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election. It was then replaced by the new Ealing East and Ealing West constituencies.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Lord George Francis Hamilton	Conservative
	1906	Sir Herbert Nield	Conservative
	1931	Sir Frank Sanderson, Bt.	Conservative
1945		constituency abolished: see Ealing East and Ealing West

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Ealing[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Herbert Nield	13,710	79.2
	Labour	Alfred Hugh Chilton	3,610	20.8
Majority			10,100	58.4
Turnout				60.4
	Unionist hold		Swing

• endorsed by the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Ealing[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Herbert Nield	14,507	67.9	-11.3
	Labour	Alfred Hugh Chilton	6,128	28.7	+7.9
	Independent Unionist	Lewis Montgomery Murray Hall	719	3.4	n/a
Majority			8,379	39.2	-19.2
Turnout				65.8	+5.4
	Unionist hold		Swing	-9.6

General Election 1923: Ealing [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Herbert Nield	12,349	53.1	-14.8
	Liberal	A W Bradford	6,410	27.6	n/a
	Labour	Alfred Hugh Chilton	4,495	19.3	-9.4
Majority			5,939	25.5	-13.7
Turnout				69.0	+3.2
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1924: Ealing[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir Herbert Nield	18,572	73.3	+20.2
	Labour	Alfred Hugh Chilton	6,765	26.7	+7.4
Majority			11,807	46.6	+21.1
Turnout				73.2	+4.2
	Unionist hold		Swing	+6.4

General Election 1929: Ealing[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir Herbert Nield	20,503	54.4	-18.9
	Labour	James William Maycock	9,093	24.2	-2.5
	Liberal	Arrean Paul Grundy	8,042	21.4	n/a
Majority			11,410	30.2	-16.4
Turnout				73.4	+1.2
	Unionist hold		Swing	-8.2

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Ealing[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson	32,792	82.7
	Labour	James William Maycock	6,857	17.3
Majority			25,935	65.4
Turnout				74.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Ealing[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson	28,472	74.1
	Labour	Mark Auliff	9,972	25.9
Majority			18,500	48.2
Turnout				69.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson
• Labour: DJ Johnston^[8]

References

1. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
2. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
3. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
4. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
5. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
6. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
7. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
8. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)