Marylebone_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Marylebone West (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1918
Marylebone West was a borough constituency located in the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone, in 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 voting system.
| Marylebone West | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Marylebone West in London | |
| 1885–1918 | |
| Seats | one |
| Created from | Marylebone |
| Replaced by | St Marylebone |
The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was formerly part of the two-seat Marylebone constituency. It was abolished for the 1918 general election.
The previous Parliamentary borough of Marylebone was split up in the boundary review of 1884–85. The new Parliamentary borough consisted of the parish of St Marylebone, and therefore had identical boundaries to the St Marylebone Vestry which was the main institution of local government. The Commissioners divided the parish into two Divisions, each of which contained four of the parishes' eight wards. Marylebone West division was defined as containing the Bryanston, Hamilton Terrace, New Church Street, and Portman wards. The population in 1881 was 83,871.[1]
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Frederick Hunt | Conservative | |
| 1895 | Sir Horace Farquhar | Liberal Unionist | |
| 1898 | Sir Samuel Scott | Conservative | |
| 1918 | constituency abolished | ||
Elections in the 1880s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Frederick Seager Hunt | 3,093 | 56.3 | ||
| Independent Liberal | Henry Seymour Trower | 1,595 | 29.1 | ||
| Liberal | Henry Edmund Knight | 701 | 12.8 | ||
| Independent | Joseph Diggle | 101 | 1.8 | ||
| Majority | 1,498 | 27.2 | |||
| Turnout | 5,490 | 72.6 | |||
| Registered electors | 7,566 | ||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Diggle stood in order to test the eligibility of Church of England clergyman to stand as candidates, but if he had won he would have been disqualified from sitting in the Commons.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Frederick Seager Hunt | 3,064 | 61.2 | +4.9 | |
| Liberal | Henry Seymour Trower | 1,942 | 38.8 | +26.0 | |
| Majority | 1,122 | 22.4 | -4.8 | ||
| Turnout | 5,006 | 66.2 | -6.4 | ||
| Registered electors | 7,566 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -10.6 | |||
Elections in the 1890s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Frederick Seager Hunt | 2,913 | 54.1 | -7.1 | |
| Liberal | John Charles Foulger | 2,476 | 45.9 | +7.1 | |
| Majority | 437 | 8.2 | -14.2 | ||
| Turnout | 5,389 | 66.9 | +0.7 | ||
| Registered electors | 8,052 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -7.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Unionist | Horace Townsend-Farquhar | 3,734 | 62.2 | +8.1 | |
| Liberal | Bertram Straus | 2,273 | 37.8 | −8.1 | |
| Majority | 1,461 | 24.4 | +16.2 | ||
| Turnout | 6,007 | 69.9 | +3.0 | ||
| Registered electors | 8,593 | ||||
| Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | +8.1 | |||
Townsend-Farquhar was elevated to the peerage.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Samuel Scott | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
Elections in the 1900s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Samuel Scott | 3,487 | 69.5 | +7.3 | |
| Liberal | William Hastings Sands | 1,532 | 30.5 | −7.3 | |
| Majority | 1,955 | 39.0 | +14.6 | ||
| Turnout | 5,019 | 57.1 | −12.8 | ||
| Registered electors | 8,792 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +7.3 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Samuel Scott | 3,446 | 55.3 | −14.2 | |
| Liberal | Henry Hamilton Johnston | 2,791 | 44.7 | +14.2 | |
| Majority | 655 | 10.6 | −28.4 | ||
| Turnout | 6,237 | 74.6 | +17.5 | ||
| Registered electors | 8,365 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -14.2 | |||
Elections in the 1910s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Samuel Scott | 4,451 | 64.3 | +9.0 | |
| Liberal | Donald Alexander Forbes | 2,474 | 35.7 | -9.0 | |
| Majority | 1,977 | 28.6 | +18.0 | ||
| Turnout | 6,925 | 80.7 | +6.1 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +9.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Samuel Scott | 3,929 | 67.1 | +2.8 | |
| Liberal | Arthur Hewett Spokes | 1,926 | 32.9 | -2.8 | |
| Majority | 2,003 | 34.2 | +5.6 | ||
| Turnout | 5,855 | 68.3 | -12.4 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +2.8 | |||
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;
- Unionist: Samuel Scott
- Liberal:
- "Boundary Commission (England and Wales). Report of the Boundary Commissioners for England and Wales 1885", Part II.--Boroughs, C. 4287-I, p. 61-62.
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
- The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
- Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 35. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.