Mitcham | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | County of London, then Greater London |
1918–1974 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Wimbledon |
Replaced by | Mitcham and Morden, with Wallington & Beddington added to the Carshalton seat. |
During its existence contributed to new seat(s) of: | Carshalton |
Mitcham was a constituency comprising the emerging Mitcham, Wallington and Beddington suburbs of South London and until 1945 that of Carshalton, its largest of the area's four traditional divisions, in its south-west. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system.
It was created for the 1918 general election from part of Wimbledon when it reached southwards up onto the North Downs, further south than Croydon South, and was abolished for the February 1974 general election.
Two of its MPs became Home Secretary, one after changing seat of candidature, on boundary reforms.
Boundaries
[edit]1918–1945: The Urban Districts of Beddington and Wallington, Carshalton, and Mitcham (the latter as a northern end).
1945–1974: The Boroughs of Beddington and Wallington, and Mitcham (the latter as a northern end).
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
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1918 | Thomas Worsfold | Conservative | Resigned 1923 | |
1923 by-election | James Chuter Ede | Labour | Subsequently, MP for South Shields; Home Secretary 1945–51; Leader of the House of Commons 1951 | |
1923 | Richard Meller | Conservative | Died 1940 | |
1940 by-election | Malcolm Robertson | Conservative | ||
1945 | Tom Braddock | Labour | ||
1950 | Robert Carr | Conservative | Leader of the House of Commons 1972; Home Secretary 1972–74; subsequently MP for Carshalton |
February 1974: constituency abolished: see Mitcham and Morden
Election results
[edit]1970s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Carr | 27,257 | 54.58 | +8.85 | |
Labour | Reginald C Vincent | 22,047 | 44.15 | −0.59 | |
Communist | Sid French | 638 | 1.28 | +0.19 | |
Majority | 5,210 | 10.43 | |||
Turnout | 49,942 | 68.76 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.72 |
1960s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Carr | 24,234 | 45.73 | ||
Labour | Thomas J Higgs | 23,706 | 44.74 | ||
Liberal | Ross C Burgess | 4,470 | 8.44 | ||
Communist | Sid French | 580 | 1.09 | ||
Majority | 528 | 0.99 | |||
Turnout | 52,990 | 79.43 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Carr | 25,087 | 46.61 | ||
Labour | Roger Charles Mackay | 21,175 | 39.34 | ||
Liberal | William Antony Heath | 6,902 | 12.82 | ||
Communist | Sid French | 657 | 1.22 | New | |
Majority | 3,912 | 7.27 | |||
Turnout | 53,821 | 79.19 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
1950s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Carr | 33,661 | 58.53 | ||
Labour Co-op | Eric JC Smythe | 23,845 | 41.47 | ||
Majority | 9,816 | 17.06 | |||
Turnout | 57,506 | 81.61 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Carr | 32,798 | 56.54 | ||
Labour | Hugh Jenkins | 25,208 | 43.46 | ||
Majority | 7,590 | 13.08 | |||
Turnout | 58,006 | 80.53 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Carr | 34,056 | 54.71 | ||
Labour | Harry Randall | 28,187 | 45.29 | ||
Majority | 5,869 | 9.42 | |||
Turnout | 62,243 | 84.60 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Carr | 31,881 | 50.77 | ||
Labour | Tom Braddock | 27,055 | 43.08 | ||
Liberal | Doreen L Page | 3,864 | 6.15 | New | |
Majority | 4,826 | 7.69 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 62,800 | 85.84 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
1940s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Tom Braddock | 26,910 | 57.68 | ||
Conservative | Malcolm Robertson | 19,742 | 42.32 | ||
Majority | 7,168 | 15.36 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 46,652 | 73.58 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Malcolm Robertson | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Conservative hold | Swing |
1930s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Meller | 35,239 | 57.46 | ||
Labour | Paul Winterton | 26,087 | 42.54 | ||
Majority | 9,152 | 14.92 | |||
Turnout | 61,326 | 66.74 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Meller | 38,948 | 76.26 | ||
Labour | W Graham | 12,124 | 23.74 | ||
Majority | 26,824 | 52.52 | |||
Turnout | 51,072 | 69.97 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Richard Meller | 20,254 | 47.9 | −14.1 | |
Labour | Skene Mackay | 13,057 | 30.8 | −7.2 | |
Liberal | Raymond V. Jones | 9,016 | 21.3 | New | |
Majority | 7,197 | 17.1 | −6.9 | ||
Turnout | 42,327 | 70.2 | −4.6 | ||
Registered electors | 60,311 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Richard Meller | 15,984 | 62.0 | +9.7 | |
Labour | James Chuter Ede | 9,776 | 38.0 | −9.7 | |
Majority | 6,208 | 24.0 | +19.4 | ||
Turnout | 25,760 | 74.8 | +11.6 | ||
Registered electors | 34,435 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +9.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Richard Meller | 10,829 | 52.3 | −12.7 | |
Labour | James Chuter Ede | 9,877 | 47.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 952 | 4.6 | −25.4 | ||
Turnout | 20,706 | 63.2 | +10.5 | ||
Registered electors | 32,755 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −12.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Chuter Ede | 8,029 | 38.0 | New | |
Unionist | Arthur Griffith-Boscawen | 7,196 | 34.1 | −30.9 | |
Liberal | Ernest Brown | 3,214 | 15.2 | −19.8 | |
Independent | J.T. Catterall | 2,684 | 12.7 | New | |
Majority | 833 | 3.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 21,123 | 66.2 | +13.5 | ||
Registered electors | 31,927 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Thomas Worsfold | 10,934 | 65.0 | +4.4 | |
Liberal | A.E. Bennetts | 5,898 | 35.0 | −4.4 | |
Majority | 5,036 | 30.0 | +8.8 | ||
Turnout | 16,832 | 52.7 | +9.1 | ||
Registered electors | 31,927 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +4.4 |
1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Thomas Worsfold | 7,651 | 60.6 | |
Liberal | Samuel Barrow [8] | 4,968 | 39.4 | ||
Majority | 2,683 | 21.2 | |||
Turnout | 12,619 | 43.6 | |||
Registered electors | 28,952 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
References
[edit]- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1922
- ^ ‘BARROW, Sir Samuel’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 18 Sept 2017
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