Mid Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)
Mid Surrey | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Surrey |
1868–1885 | |
Number of members | Two |
Replaced by |
large parts of Battersea Wandsworth Clapham and approximately: Epsom or (Mid-Southern) Kingston (or Mid-Northern) major parts of Wimbledon |
Created from | East Surrey |
Mid Surrey was a county constituency in Surrey, England 1868 — 1885. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament elected by the bloc vote system.
History
The constituency was created under the Second Reform Act for the 1868 general election, and abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election.
- Political history
The seat elected a brief series of Conservatives.
- Successor seats
As the 1885 Act created 16 metropolitan seats in the north-east of the county — falling from 1889 within the newly formed County of London, the opportunity was taken to replace the six seats in three geographic sectors (mid, east and west) with six single-member constituencies to cover the bulk and south-west of the county, commonly referred to at the time as the non-metropolitan county: Kingston (mid north), Epsom (mid south), Chertsey (or northwest), Guildford (southwest), Reigate (southeast) and Wimbledon (northeast).
Boundaries
1868-1885: The Hundreds of Brixton, Kingston, Reigate, and so much of the Hundred of Wallington as lay to the west of the parishes of Croydon and Sanderstead, and so much of the Hundred of Brixton as lay to the west of the parishes of Streatham, Clapham and Lambeth.[1]
Members of Parliament
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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1868 | Sir Henry Peek | Conservative | William Brodrick | Conservative | ||
1870 by-election | Richard Baggallay | Conservative | ||||
1875 by-election | Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bt. | Conservative | ||||
1884 by-election | Sir John Whittaker Ellis, Bt. | Conservative | ||||
1885 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Elections in the 1860s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Henry Peek | 4,487 | 29.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Brodrick | 4,412 | 29.1 | N/A | |
Liberal | Julian Goldsmid | 3,152 | 20.8 | N/A | |
Liberal | Charles Henry Robarts[3] | 3,090 | 20.4 | N/A | |
Independent Liberal | Thomas Marsh Nelson[4] | 7 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,260 | N/A | |||
Turnout | 7,574 (est) | 71.7 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 10,565 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Elections in the 1870s
Brodrick succeeded to the peerage, becoming Viscount Middleton and causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Richard Baggallay | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Richard Baggallay | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Henry Peek | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 14,645 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Baggallay was appointed Solicitor-General for England and Wales, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Baggallay | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Baggallay was appointed a Judge of The Court of Appeal, and resigned.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Trevor Lawrence | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Henry Peek | 8,475 | 30.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Trevor Lawrence | 8,303 | 29.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Sydney Stern | 5,770 | 20.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Joseph Napier Higgins | 5,727 | 20.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,533 | 9.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 14,138 | 69.2 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 20,433 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Peek's resignation caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Whittaker Ellis | 7,645 | 60.7 | +1.3 | |
Liberal | Sydney Stern | 4,949 | 39.3 | −1.4 | |
Majority | 2,696 | 21.4 | +12.4 | ||
Turnout | 12,594 | 47.0 | −22.2 | ||
Registered electors | 26,804 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.4 |
References
- ↑ "Representation of the People Act 1867" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book)
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(help) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 467. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3. - ↑ "Mid Surrey Election". Surrey Comet. 14 November 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 18 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Mr. Marsh Nelson at Kingston". Surrey Comet. 14 November 1868. p. 5. Retrieved 18 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).