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St Pancras East (UK Parliament constituency)

St Pancras East was a parliamentary constituency in the St Pancras district of North London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

St Pancras East
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
18851918
Seatsone
Created fromMarylebone

History edit

 
St Pancras East in London, 1885-1918

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 edit

Election results edit

Elections in the 1880s edit

General election 1885: St Pancras East [1][2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Thomas Gibb 2,416 52.7
Conservative Robert Grant Webster[4] 2,170 47.3
Majority 246 5.4
Turnout 4,586 77.6
Registered electors 5,913
Liberal win (new seat)
General election 1886: St Pancras East [1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Grant Webster 2,327 56.0 +8.7
Liberal Thomas Gibb 1,826 44.0 -8.7
Majority 501 12.0 N/A
Turnout 4,153 70.2 -7.4
Registered electors 5,913
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +8.7

Elections in the 1890s edit

General election 1892: St Pancras East [1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Grant Webster 2,621 54.6 −1.4
Liberal Thomas Gibb 2,180 45.4 +1.4
Majority 441 9.2 −2.8
Turnout 4,801 72.8 +2.6
Registered electors 6,598
Conservative hold Swing −1.4
General election 1895: St Pancras East [1][2][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Grant Webster 2,612 52.9 −1.7
Liberal Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe 2,322 47.1 +1.7
Majority 290 5.8 −3.4
Turnout 4,934 70.6 −2.2
Registered electors 6,988
Conservative hold Swing −1.7

Webster resigned, causing a by-election.

1899 St Pancras East by-election[1][2][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Thomas Wrightson 2,610 51.9 −1.0
Liberal Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe 2,423 48.1 +1.0
Majority 187 3.8 −2.0
Turnout 5,033 70.0 −0.6
Registered electors 7,191
Conservative hold Swing −1.0

Elections in the 1900s edit

General election 1900: St Pancras East [1][2][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Thomas Wrightson 3,016 58.9 +6.0
Liberal John Meir Astbury 2,106 41.1 −6.0
Majority 910 17.8 +12.0
Turnout 5,122 70.7 +0.1
Registered electors 7,248
Conservative hold Swing +6.0
 
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General election 1906: St Pancras East [1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Hugh Lea 4,208 64.4 +23.3
Conservative Thomas Wrightson 2,327 35.6 −23.3
Majority 1,881 28.8 N/A
Turnout 6,535 82.1 +11.4
Registered electors 7,961
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +23.3

Elections in the 1910s edit

 
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General election January 1910: St Pancras East [1][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Lib-Lab Joseph Martin 4,276 54.4 −10.0
Conservative Walter Preston 3,586 45.6 +10.0
Majority 690 8.8 −20.0
Turnout 7,862 82.9 +0.8
Registered electors 9,487
Lib-Lab hold Swing −10.0
General election December 1910: St Pancras East [1][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Lib-Lab Joseph Martin 3,891 56.0 +1.6
Conservative John Hopkins 3,038 43.7 −1.9
Suffragist Herbert Jacobs 22 0.3 New
Majority 853 12.3 +3.5
Turnout 6,951 73.3 −9.6
Registered electors 9,487
Lib-Lab hold Swing +1.8

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;

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
  2. ^ a b c d e f g The Liberal Year Book, 1907
  3. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
  4. ^ ‘WEBSTER, Robert Grant’, 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 19 Oct 2017
  5. ^ a b c Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  6. ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

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