St Pancras East (UK Parliament constituency)
St Pancras East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–1918 | |
Number of members | one |
St Pancras East was a parliamentary constituency in the St Pancras district of North London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
History
The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | Thomas Eccleston Gibb | Liberal | |
1886 | Robert Grant Webster | Conservative | |
1899 | Sir Thomas Wrightson | Conservative | |
1906 | Hugh Cecil Lea | Liberal | |
1910 (Jan) | Joseph Martin | Liberal | |
1918 change | Labour | ||
1918 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
General Election 1885: St Pancras East[1] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Thomas Eccleston Gibb | 2,415 | 52.7 | n/a | |
Conservative | Robert Grant Webster | 2,170 | 47.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 246 | 5.4 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 77.5 | n/a | |||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
General Election 1886: St Pancras East[2] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Grant Webster | 2,327 | 56.0 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Eccleston Gibb | 1,826 | 44.0 | ||
Majority | 501 | 12.0 | |||
Turnout | 70.2 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1890s
General Election 1892: St Pancras East[3] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Grant Webster | ||||
Liberal | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1895: St Pancras East[4] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Grant Webster | ||||
Liberal | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
St Pancras East by-election, 1899[5] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Thomas Wrightson | 2,610 | 51.9 | ||
Liberal | BFC Costelloe | 2,423 | 48.1 | ||
Majority | 187 | 3.8 | |||
Turnout | 70.0 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1900s
General Election 1900: St Pancras East[6] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sir Thomas Wrightson | 3,016 | 58.9 | ||
Liberal | John Meir Astbury | 2,106 | 41.1 | ||
Majority | 910 | 17.8 | |||
Turnout | 70.7 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1906: St Pancras East[7] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Hugh Cecil Lea | 4,208 | 64.4 | ||
Conservative | Sir Thomas Wrightson | 2,327 | 35.6 | ||
Majority | 1,881 | 28.8 | |||
Turnout | 82.1 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1910s
General Election January 1910: St Pancras East[8] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Hon. Joseph Martin | 4,276 | 54.4 | ||
Conservative | W R Preston | 3,586 | 45.6 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
General Election December 1910: St Pancras East[9] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Hon. Joseph Martin | 3,891 | 56.0 | ||
Conservative | John Wells Wainwright Hopkins | 3,038 | 43.7 | ||
Suffragist | Herbert Jacobs | 22 | 0.3 | ||
Majority | 853 | 12.3 | |||
Turnout | 6,951 | 73.3 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: Hon. Joseph Martin
- Unionist: John Wells Wainwright Hopkins
References
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
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