Harrow (UK Parliament constituency)

Harrow
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1945
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Ealing West, Harrow West and Wembley South
Created from	Middlesex

Harrow was a parliamentary constituency in Middlesex (now part of Greater London). It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Harrow within Middlesex 1918-45

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election.

Boundaries

1918-1945: The Urban Districts of Harrow on the Hill, Greenford, Hanwell, Wealdstone, and Wembley.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Ambrose	Conservative
	1899 by-election	Irwin Cox	Conservative
	1906	James Gibb	Liberal
	Jan. 1910	Harry Mallaby-Deeley	Conservative
	1918	Oswald Ernald Mosley	Conservative
	1922		Independent
	1924		Labour
	1924	Sir Isidore Salmon	Conservative
	1941 by-election	Norman Bower	Conservative
1945		constituency abolished: see Harrow East and Harrow West

Election results

Elections in the 1900s

James Gibb

General Election 1906: Harrow [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Gibb	11,393	50.9	n/a
	Liberal Unionist	Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel	10,977	49.1	n/a
Majority			416	1.8	n/a
Turnout			22,370	78.1	n/a
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	n/a

General Election January 1910: Harrow [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley	16,761	55.3	+6.2
	Liberal	Percy Alfred Harris	13,575	44.7	-6.2
Majority			3,186	10.6	12.4
Turnout				85.7
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+6.2

General Election 1918: Harrow [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Oswald Ernald Mosley	13,950	82.3
	Independent Unionist	Arthur Robert Chamberlayne	3,007	17.7
Majority			10,934	64.5
Turnout			16,957
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

Oswald Mosley

General Election 1922: Harrow [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Oswald Ernald Mosley	15,290	60.8
	Unionist	Edward Hugh Frederick Morris	7,868	39.2
Majority			7422	32.0
Turnout			23,158
	Independent hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Harrow [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Oswald Ernald Mosley	14,079	59.9	-6.1
	Unionist	Edward Hugh Frederick Morris	9,433	40.1	+6.1
Majority			4,646	19.8	-12.2
Turnout				64.5
	Independent hold		Swing	-6.1

General Election 1929: Harrow [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Isidore Salmon	22,466	42.7
	Labour	Hubert Beaumont	15,684	29.8
	Liberal	Clement Edward Page Taylor	12,554	23.8
	Independent	W.J. Sholl	1,965	3.7	n/a
Majority			6,782	12.9
Turnout			52,669
	Unionist hold		Swing

References

1. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
2. British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885-1918 FWS Craig
3. Oswald Mosley, R Skidelsky
4. Oswald Mosley, R Skidelsky
5. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
6. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 347. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 425. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
• Skidelsky, R. (1980) [1975]. Oswald Mosley (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. p. 75. ISBN 0333293851.
• Skidelsky, R. (1980) [1975]. Oswald Mosley (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 0333293851.