The constituency was first known to have been represented in Parliament in 1545 and continued to exist until the redistribution of seats in 1918. The constituency's most famous former representatives are John Stuart Mill and Charles James Fox. The most analogous contemporary constituency is Cities of London and Westminster.
1885-1918: The Westminster district, and Close of Collegiate Church of St. Peter.[1]
The constituency was formed in 1545 from part of the county constituency of Middlesex and returned two members of parliament until 1885.
The City of Westminster is a district of Inner London. Its southern boundary is on the north bank of the River Thames. It is today combined with Marylebone to the north. It is west of the diminutive City of London, fixed with four MPs in 1298, and the north part of Lambeth, created a broad constituency in 1832. It is south-west of Holborn and St. Pancras which in 1832 were both placed in a wider seat named Finsbury and to the east of Kensington and Chelsea which were dealt with similarly in a seat named Chelsea.
In the 1885 redistribution of seats the constituency (virtually identical to the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster which was created in 1900) was divided into three single-member seats. The south-eastern part, including the traditional heart of Westminster and such important centres of power as the Houses of Parliament and the seat of government in Whitehall, continued to be a constituency called Westminster. By official definition the areas retained were "the Westminster district and Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter"; a seat named Strand was created in the north-east and a seat, St George's, Hanover Square, in the west.
In the 1918 redistribution the three seats were cut to two: Westminster St George's in the west and Westminster Abbey in the east, the latter wholly containing and slightly larger than the 1885–1918 Westminster seat (except for its Knightsbridge exclave which lay some way off in the west).
Historyedit
The Westminster constituency represented the centre of British government and had a large electorate so that it was independent of the control of a patron. Before the Reform Act 1832 the right to vote was held by the male inhabitants paying scot and lot (a kind of local property tax). The franchise was the largest of any borough in the kingdom, and only the county constituency of Yorkshire had more voters. Sedgwick estimated the electorate at about 8,000 in the first half of the eighteenth century. Namier and Brooke estimated that there were about 12,000 voters later in the century. The large size of the electorate made contested elections immensely expensive.
In the sixteenth century the Church officials associated with Westminster Abbey had a large influence in the area, but as the community became bigger that became less important. The Court (or His Majesty's Treasury) had some legitimate influence (by the standards of the age), because of the royal residences and government offices in the borough. The use of public funds to bribe the electorate was not unknown, during close elections (see the comments about the cost of the 1780 and 1784 contests below). Local landowners who were prepared to stir up ill-will by threatening to evict or raise the rents of tenants voting the wrong way, could also affect the result.
Unlawful means were sometimes used to make sure that the right candidates were elected. In 1722 the election of two Tories was declared void because of rioting which prevented some Whigs voting. In 1741 a Whig returning officer called upon the assistance of some troops to close the poll before the Tory candidates could catch up to the Whig votes.
The House of Commons declared the 1741 election void with the ringing resolution that "the presence of a regular body of armed soldiers at an election of members to sit in Parliament, is a high infringement of the liberties of the subject, a manifest violation of the freedom of election and an open defiance of the laws and constitution of this kingdom".
By the eighteenth century it was normal for the members to be Irish peers, the sons of peers or baronets, as it was thought appropriate for them to be of high social standing so as to be worthy to represent the seat.
The Treasury spent the enormous sums of more than £8,000 in 1780 and £9,000 in 1784, in unsuccessful attempts to defeat the opposition Whig leader Charles James Fox. So expensive were these contests that for the next general election in 1790, the government and opposition leaders reached a formal agreement for each to have one member returned unopposed. However, in the event a second Whig candidate did appear, but the Tory (the famous Admiral Lord Hood) and Fox were re-elected without too much difficulty.
The last MP for this constituency, William Burdett-Coutts, was connected with a family prominent in City of Westminster politics since the eighteenth century. He himself was born in the United States in 1851, his grandparents on both sides having been British subjects. After he married Baroness Burdett-Coutts in 1881 he changed his surname from Bartlett to Burdett-Coutts. He represented the area from 1885 until 1918 and continued to sit for the Abbey division until his death in 1921.
Lists of Members of Parliamentedit
The English civil year started on 25 March until 1752 (Scotland having changed to 1 January in 1600). The years used in this article have been converted to the new style where necessary. Old style dates would be a year earlier than the new style for days between 1 January and 24 March. No attempt has been made to compensate for the eleven days which did not occur in September 1752 in both England and Scotland as well as other British controlled territories (when the day after 2 September was 14 September), so as to bring the British Empire fully in line with the Gregorian calendar.
Members of Parliament 1545–1660edit
Some of the members elected during this period have been identified. The year first given is for the initial meeting of the Parliament, with the month added where there was more than one Parliament in the year. If a second year is given this is a date of dissolution. Early Parliaments sometimes only existed for a few days or weeks, so dissolutions in the same year as the first meeting are not recorded in this list If a specific date of election is known this is recorded in italic brackets. The Roman numerals in brackets, following some names, are those used to distinguish different politicians of the same name in 'The House of Commons' 1509–1558 and 1558–1603.
Glynne disabled 7 September 1647 but restored 7 June 1648 Glynne and Bell both possibly secluded in Pride's Purge Westminster unrepresented in the Rump and Barebones Parliament
Westminster was the constituency of fraudulent businessman Augustus Melmotte, who gained election as a Conservative, in Anthony Trollope's satirical novel, The Way We Live Now (published 1875).
Electionsedit
General notesedit
In multi-member elections the bloc voting system was used. Voters could cast a vote for one or two candidates, as they chose. The leading candidates with the largest number of votes were elected.
After 1832, when registration of voters was introduced, a turnout figure is given for contested elections. In two-member elections, when the exact number of participating voters is unknown, this is calculated by dividing the number of votes by two. To the extent that electors did not use both their votes this will be an underestimate of turnout.
Where a party had more than one candidate in one or both of a pair of successive elections change is calculated for each individual candidate, otherwise change is based on the party vote. Change figures at by-elections are from the preceding general election or the last intervening by-election. Change figures at general elections are from the last general election.
Candidates for whom no party has been identified are classified as Non Partisan. The candidate might have been associated with a party or faction in Parliament or consider himself to belong to a particular political tradition. Political parties before the nineteenth century were not as cohesive or organised as they later became. Contemporary commentators (even the reputed leaders of parties or factions) in the eighteenth century did not necessarily agree who the party supporters were. The traditional parties, which had arisen in the late seventeenth century, became increasingly irrelevant to politics in the eighteenth century (particularly after 1760), although for some contests in some constituencies party labels were still used. It was only towards the end of the century that party labels began to acquire some meaning again, although this process was by no means complete for several more generations.
Sources: The results for elections before 1790 were taken from the History of Parliament Trust publications on the House of Commons. The results from 1790 until the 1832 general election are based on Stooks Smith and from 1832 onwards on Craig. Where Stooks Smith gives additional information to the other sources this is indicated in a note.
Dates of Westminster general and by-elections 1660–1918edit
-2 Apr 1660 GE
-- Apr 1661 GE
27 Feb 1679 GE
19 Sep 1679 GE
15 Nov 1680 BE
10 Feb 1681 GE
23 Mar 1685 GE
21 Jan 1689 GE
13 Mar 1690 GE
-9 Nov 1691 BE
29 Oct 1695 GE
22 Jul 1698 GE
21 Jan 1701 GE
-9 Dec 1701 GE
-6 Aug 1702 GE
30 May 1705 GE
-7 Jul 1708 GE
-9 Oct 1710 GE
-- --- 1713 GE
24 Jan 1715 GE
27 Mar 1722 GE (1)
-3 Dec 1722 BE
15 Aug 1727 GE
22 Apr 1734 GE
-8 May 1741 GE (1)
31 Dec 1741 BE
-1 Jul 1747 GE
15 May 1750 BE
16 Jan 1753 BE
20 Apr 1754 GE
25 Mar 1761 GE
27 Apr 1762 BE
15 Mar 1763 BE
16 Mar 1768 GE
30 Apr 1770 BE
26 Oct 1774 GE
17 Dec 1776 BE
20 Apr 1779 BE
10 Oct 1780 GE
-3 Apr 1782 BE
12 Jun 1782 BE
-7 Apr 1783 BE
17 May 1784 GE
-4 Aug 1788 BE
-2 Jul 1790 GE
13 Jun 1796 GE
15 Jul 1802 GE
13 Feb 1806 BE
-7 Oct 1806 BE
19 Nov 1806 GE
23 May 1807 GE
-8 Oct 1812 GE
-5 Jul 1814 (2)
16 Jul 1814 BE
-4 Jul 1818 GE
-3 Mar 1819 BE
25 Mar 1820 GE
-- --- 1826 GE
-- --- 1830 GE
-- --- 1831 GE
-- Feb 1832 BE
-- --- 1832 GE
-4 Apr 1833 BE
11 May 1833 BE
-- --- 1835 GE
12 May 1837 BE
27 Jul 1837 GE
-1 Jul 1841 GE
19 Feb 1846 BE
30 Jul 1847 GE
-9 Jul 1852 GE
-- --- 1857 GE
-- --- 1859 GE
12 Jul 1865 GE
18 Nov 1868 GE
-7 Feb 1874 GE
11 Aug 1877 BE
-- --- 1880 GE
10 Feb 1882 BE
29 Jun 1885 BE
26 Nov 1885 GE
-- --- 1886 GE
-- --- 1892 GE
-- --- 1895 GE
-- --- 1900 GE
-- --- 1906 GE
-- Jan 1910 GE
-- Dec 1910 GE
Notes:
(1) Election declared void
(2) Date of expulsion from the House of Lord Cochrane
Election results (Parliament of England) 1660–1690edit
General Election 2 April 1660: Westminster (2 seats)
Note (1685): Vote totals unavailable. The candidate in this election is not the Gilbert Gerard elected in 1660, nor is he the Gilbert Gerard who was knight of the shire for Middlesex earlier in the century.
Note (1689): Vote totals unavailable. Matthews and Dewey are described by Henning as radical candidates, but should not be confused with the followers of John Wilkes in the late eighteenth century or the radicals of the nineteenth century.
Election results (Parliament of Great Britain) 1715–1800edit
Lord Warkworth became known by the courtesy title of Earl Percy from 1766, when his father was advanced in the peerage from Earl to Duke of Northumberland
Note (1784): Poll 40 days; 12,301 voted. After a scrutiny the members returned were unchanged and vote totals were amended to the figures as above. Original votes Hood 6,694; Fox 6,234; Wray 5,998. (Source: Stooks Smith)
Resignation of Hobhouse, by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, after he left the Ministry in opposition to the House and Window taxes.
Note (1847): 14,125 registered (Craig's figure above used for the turnout calculation); 7,185 voted. Evans was classified as a Radical, Lushington and Cochrane as Whigs and Rous as a Tory. (Source: Stooks Smith)
^"Chap. 23. Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885". The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom passed in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of the reign of Queen Victoria. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1885. pp. 111–198.
^ abcdBaer, Marc (2012). "Stories: Whig, Radical and Tory Westminster 1780–1890". The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780–1890 (1st ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 31, 152. ISBN9781137035295.
^ abcSeaber, Luke (2017). Brant, Clare; Saunders, Max (eds.). Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature: Certainties in Degradation (eBook ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. p. 3. ISBN9783319509624.
^Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
^Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
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westminster, parliament, constituency, westminster, parliamentary, constituency, parliament, england, 1707, parliament, great, britain, 1707, 1800, parliament, united, kingdom, from, 1801, returned, members, 1885, thereafter, westminsterformer, borough, consti. Westminster was a parliamentary constituency in the Parliament of England to 1707 the Parliament of Great Britain 1707 1800 and the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 It returned two members to 1885 and one thereafter WestminsterFormer Borough constituencyfor the House of CommonsWestminster in London 1868 85Westminster in London 1885 19181545 1918Seatstwo to 1885 then oneCreated fromMiddlesexReplaced byWestminster Abbey abolished 1950 Westminster St George s also known as Westminster St George s Hanover Square received Knightsbridge exclave During its existence contributed to new seat s of Strand abolished 1918 St George s Hanover Square abolished 1950 The constituency was first known to have been represented in Parliament in 1545 and continued to exist until the redistribution of seats in 1918 The constituency s most famous former representatives are John Stuart Mill and Charles James Fox The most analogous contemporary constituency is Cities of London and Westminster Contents 1 Boundaries and boundary changes 2 History 3 Lists of Members of Parliament 3 1 Members of Parliament 1545 1660 3 2 Members of Parliament 1660 1918 4 Fictional Member of Parliament 5 Elections 5 1 General notes 5 2 Dates of Westminster general and by elections 1660 1918 5 3 Election results Parliament of England 1660 1690 5 4 Election results Parliament of Great Britain 1715 1800 5 5 Election results Parliament of the United Kingdom 6 Election results 1885 1918 6 1 Elections in the 1880s 6 2 Elections in the 1890s 6 3 Elections in the 1900s 6 4 Elections in the 1910s 7 See also 8 References 9 BibliographyBoundaries and boundary changes edit1885 1918 The Westminster district and Close of Collegiate Church of St Peter 1 The constituency was formed in 1545 from part of the county constituency of Middlesex and returned two members of parliament until 1885 The City of Westminster is a district of Inner London Its southern boundary is on the north bank of the River Thames It is today combined with Marylebone to the north It is west of the diminutive City of London fixed with four MPs in 1298 and the north part of Lambeth created a broad constituency in 1832 It is south west of Holborn and St Pancras which in 1832 were both placed in a wider seat named Finsbury and to the east of Kensington and Chelsea which were dealt with similarly in a seat named Chelsea In the 1885 redistribution of seats the constituency virtually identical to the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster which was created in 1900 was divided into three single member seats The south eastern part including the traditional heart of Westminster and such important centres of power as the Houses of Parliament and the seat of government in Whitehall continued to be a constituency called Westminster By official definition the areas retained were the Westminster district and Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter a seat named Strand was created in the north east and a seat St George s Hanover Square in the west In the 1918 redistribution the three seats were cut to two Westminster St George s in the west and Westminster Abbey in the east the latter wholly containing and slightly larger than the 1885 1918 Westminster seat except for its Knightsbridge exclave which lay some way off in the west History editThe Westminster constituency represented the centre of British government and had a large electorate so that it was independent of the control of a patron Before the Reform Act 1832 the right to vote was held by the male inhabitants paying scot and lot a kind of local property tax The franchise was the largest of any borough in the kingdom and only the county constituency of Yorkshire had more voters Sedgwick estimated the electorate at about 8 000 in the first half of the eighteenth century Namier and Brooke estimated that there were about 12 000 voters later in the century The large size of the electorate made contested elections immensely expensive In the sixteenth century the Church officials associated with Westminster Abbey had a large influence in the area but as the community became bigger that became less important The Court or His Majesty s Treasury had some legitimate influence by the standards of the age because of the royal residences and government offices in the borough The use of public funds to bribe the electorate was not unknown during close elections see the comments about the cost of the 1780 and 1784 contests below Local landowners who were prepared to stir up ill will by threatening to evict or raise the rents of tenants voting the wrong way could also affect the result Unlawful means were sometimes used to make sure that the right candidates were elected In 1722 the election of two Tories was declared void because of rioting which prevented some Whigs voting In 1741 a Whig returning officer called upon the assistance of some troops to close the poll before the Tory candidates could catch up to the Whig votes The House of Commons declared the 1741 election void with the ringing resolution that the presence of a regular body of armed soldiers at an election of members to sit in Parliament is a high infringement of the liberties of the subject a manifest violation of the freedom of election and an open defiance of the laws and constitution of this kingdom By the eighteenth century it was normal for the members to be Irish peers the sons of peers or baronets as it was thought appropriate for them to be of high social standing so as to be worthy to represent the seat The Treasury spent the enormous sums of more than 8 000 in 1780 and 9 000 in 1784 in unsuccessful attempts to defeat the opposition Whig leader Charles James Fox So expensive were these contests that for the next general election in 1790 the government and opposition leaders reached a formal agreement for each to have one member returned unopposed However in the event a second Whig candidate did appear but the Tory the famous Admiral Lord Hood and Fox were re elected without too much difficulty The last MP for this constituency William Burdett Coutts was connected with a family prominent in City of Westminster politics since the eighteenth century He himself was born in the United States in 1851 his grandparents on both sides having been British subjects After he married Baroness Burdett Coutts in 1881 he changed his surname from Bartlett to Burdett Coutts He represented the area from 1885 until 1918 and continued to sit for the Abbey division until his death in 1921 Lists of Members of Parliament editThe English civil year started on 25 March until 1752 Scotland having changed to 1 January in 1600 The years used in this article have been converted to the new style where necessary Old style dates would be a year earlier than the new style for days between 1 January and 24 March No attempt has been made to compensate for the eleven days which did not occur in September 1752 in both England and Scotland as well as other British controlled territories when the day after 2 September was 14 September so as to bring the British Empire fully in line with the Gregorian calendar Members of Parliament 1545 1660 edit Some of the members elected during this period have been identified The year first given is for the initial meeting of the Parliament with the month added where there was more than one Parliament in the year If a second year is given this is a date of dissolution Early Parliaments sometimes only existed for a few days or weeks so dissolutions in the same year as the first meeting are not recorded in this list If a specific date of election is known this is recorded in italic brackets The Roman numerals in brackets following some names are those used to distinguish different politicians of the same name in The House of Commons 1509 1558 and 1558 1603 Year First member Second member 1545 1547 Robert Smallwood John Russell II 1547 1552 Sir George Blagge died and repl Jan 1552 by Robert Nowell John Rede I 1553 Mar Sir Robert Southwell Arthur Stourton 1553 Oct Sir Robert Southwell William Gyes 1554 April William Gyes Richard Hodges 1554 Nov 1555 William Jennings William Gyes 1555 Arthur Stourton Richard Hodges 1558 Nicholas Newdigate John Best 1559 elected 7 January 1559 Richard Hodges John Best 1563 1567 elected 1562 3 Robert Nowell William Bowyer II 1571 Sir William Cordell William Staunton 1572 1583 Thomas Wilbraham died and repl 1576 by John Osborne John Dodington 1584 1585 Hon Robert Cecil Thomas Knyvett 1586 1587 Hon Robert Cecil Thomas Knyvett 1589 elected 20 December 1588 Thomas Knyvett Peter Osborne 1593 Richard Cecil Thomas Cole 1597 1598 elected 27 September 1597 Thomas Knyvett Thomas Cole died and repl January 1598 by Anthony Mildmay 1601 elected 26 September 1601 Thomas Knyvett William Cooke II 1604 Sir Thomas Knyvett Sir Walter Cope 1614 Sir Humphrey May Edmund Doubleday 1621 Sir Edward Villiers Edmund Doubleday died before taking his seat and replaced by William Mann 1624 Sir Edward Villiers William Mann 1625 Sir Edward Villiers William Mann 1626 Sir Robert Pye Peter Heywood 1628 Joseph Bradshaw Thomas Morice Apr 1640 Sir John Glynne William Bell Nov 1640 Sir John Glynne William Bell Glynne disabled 7 September 1647 but restored 7 June 1648 Glynne and Bell both possibly secluded in Pride s PurgeWestminster unrepresented in the Rump and Barebones Parliament 1654 Thomas Latham Thomas Falconbridge 1656 Colonel Edward Grosvenor Edward Cary 1659 Edward Grosvenor Richard Sherwyn Members of Parliament 1660 1918 edit Election First Member First Party Second Member Second Party 1660 Gilbert Gerard Non partisan Thomas Clarges Non partisan 1661 Philip Warwick Non partisan Richard Everard Non partisan Feb 1679 Stephen Fox Non partisan William Pulteney Non partisan Sep 1679 Francis Wythens Non partisan 1680 William Waller Non partisan Mar 1685 Charles Bonython Tory Michael Arnold Tory Nov 1685 Parliament prorogued 1689 William Pulteney Whig Philip Howard Whig 1690 Walter Clarges Tory 1691 Stephen Fox Non partisan 1695 Charles Montagu Non partisan 1698 James Vernon Non partisan Jan 1701 Thomas Crosse Tory Dec 1701 Henry Colt Non partisan 1702 Walter Clarges Tory Thomas Crosse Tory 1702 Henry Boyle Non partisan Henry Colt Non partisan 1708 Thomas Medlycott Non partisan 1710 Thomas Crosse Tory 1715 Edward Wortley Montagu Whig Mar 1722 Archibald Hutcheson Tory John Cotton Tory Dec 1722 Charles Montagu Whig George Carpenter Whig 1727 Charles Cavendish Whig William Clayton Whig 1734 Charles Wager Whig 1741 John Perceval Tory Charles Edwin Tory 1747 Granville Leveson Gower Whig Peter Warren Whig 1752 Seat vacant 1753 Edward Cornwallis Whig 1754 John Crosse Non partisan 1761 William Pulteney Non partisan 1762 Edwin Sandys Non partisan 1763 Hugh Percy Non partisan 1770 Robert Bernard Non partisan 1774 Thomas Pelham Clinton Non partisan 1776 Charles Stanhope Non partisan 1779 George Capel Coningsby Non partisan 1780 George Brydges Rodney Whig 2 Charles James Fox Whig 2 1782 Cecil Wray Whig 2 1784 Samuel Hood Tory 2 1788 John Townshend Whig 2 1790 Samuel Hood Tory 2 1796 Alan Gardner Tory 2 Oct 1806 Hugh Percy Whig 2 Nov 1806 Samuel Hood Tory 2 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Whig 2 1807 Francis Burdett Radical 3 4 Thomas Cochrane Whig 2 Jul 1818 Samuel Romilly Whig 2 3 Nov 1818 Seat vacant 1819 George Lamb Tory 2 1820 John Hobhouse Radical 5 6 7 8 9 1833 De Lacy Evans Radical 10 11 12 13 May 1837 Conservative 2 10 Jul 1837 John Temple Leader Radical 2 13 14 1841 Henry John Rous Conservative 2 10 1846 De Lacy Evans Radical 2 11 12 13 1847 Charles Lushington Whig 12 1852 John Shelley Whig 11 1859 Liberal 10 Liberal 10 1865 Robert Grosvenor Liberal 10 John Stuart Mill Liberal 10 1868 William Henry Smith Conservative 10 1874 Charles Russell Conservative 10 1882 Algernon Percy Conservative 10 1885 William Burdett Coutts Conservative 10 Seat reduced to one member 1918 Seat abolishedFictional Member of Parliament editWestminster was the constituency of fraudulent businessman Augustus Melmotte who gained election as a Conservative in Anthony Trollope s satirical novel The Way We Live Now published 1875 Elections editGeneral notes edit In multi member elections the bloc voting system was used Voters could cast a vote for one or two candidates as they chose The leading candidates with the largest number of votes were elected In by elections and all elections after 1885 to fill a single seat the first past the post system applied After 1832 when registration of voters was introduced a turnout figure is given for contested elections In two member elections when the exact number of participating voters is unknown this is calculated by dividing the number of votes by two To the extent that electors did not use both their votes this will be an underestimate of turnout Where a party had more than one candidate in one or both of a pair of successive elections change is calculated for each individual candidate otherwise change is based on the party vote Change figures at by elections are from the preceding general election or the last intervening by election Change figures at general elections are from the last general election Candidates for whom no party has been identified are classified as Non Partisan The candidate might have been associated with a party or faction in Parliament or consider himself to belong to a particular political tradition Political parties before the nineteenth century were not as cohesive or organised as they later became Contemporary commentators even the reputed leaders of parties or factions in the eighteenth century did not necessarily agree who the party supporters were The traditional parties which had arisen in the late seventeenth century became increasingly irrelevant to politics in the eighteenth century particularly after 1760 although for some contests in some constituencies party labels were still used It was only towards the end of the century that party labels began to acquire some meaning again although this process was by no means complete for several more generations Sources The results for elections before 1790 were taken from the History of Parliament Trust publications on the House of Commons The results from 1790 until the 1832 general election are based on Stooks Smith and from 1832 onwards on Craig Where Stooks Smith gives additional information to the other sources this is indicated in a note Dates of Westminster general and by elections 1660 1918 edit 2 Apr 1660 GE Apr 1661 GE 27 Feb 1679 GE 19 Sep 1679 GE 15 Nov 1680 BE 10 Feb 1681 GE 23 Mar 1685 GE 21 Jan 1689 GE 13 Mar 1690 GE 9 Nov 1691 BE 29 Oct 1695 GE 22 Jul 1698 GE 21 Jan 1701 GE 9 Dec 1701 GE 6 Aug 1702 GE 30 May 1705 GE 7 Jul 1708 GE 9 Oct 1710 GE 1713 GE 24 Jan 1715 GE 27 Mar 1722 GE 1 3 Dec 1722 BE 15 Aug 1727 GE 22 Apr 1734 GE 8 May 1741 GE 1 31 Dec 1741 BE 1 Jul 1747 GE 15 May 1750 BE 16 Jan 1753 BE 20 Apr 1754 GE 25 Mar 1761 GE 27 Apr 1762 BE 15 Mar 1763 BE 16 Mar 1768 GE 30 Apr 1770 BE 26 Oct 1774 GE 17 Dec 1776 BE 20 Apr 1779 BE 10 Oct 1780 GE 3 Apr 1782 BE 12 Jun 1782 BE 7 Apr 1783 BE 17 May 1784 GE 4 Aug 1788 BE 2 Jul 1790 GE 13 Jun 1796 GE 15 Jul 1802 GE 13 Feb 1806 BE 7 Oct 1806 BE 19 Nov 1806 GE 23 May 1807 GE 8 Oct 1812 GE 5 Jul 1814 2 16 Jul 1814 BE 4 Jul 1818 GE 3 Mar 1819 BE 25 Mar 1820 GE 1826 GE 1830 GE 1831 GE Feb 1832 BE 1832 GE 4 Apr 1833 BE 11 May 1833 BE 1835 GE 12 May 1837 BE 27 Jul 1837 GE 1 Jul 1841 GE 19 Feb 1846 BE 30 Jul 1847 GE 9 Jul 1852 GE 1857 GE 1859 GE 12 Jul 1865 GE 18 Nov 1868 GE 7 Feb 1874 GE 11 Aug 1877 BE 1880 GE 10 Feb 1882 BE 29 Jun 1885 BE 26 Nov 1885 GE 1886 GE 1892 GE 1895 GE 1900 GE 1906 GE Jan 1910 GE Dec 1910 GE Notes 1 Election declared void 2 Date of expulsion from the House of Lord Cochrane Election results Parliament of England 1660 1690 edit General Election 2 April 1660 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan Gilbert Gerard Unopposed N A N A Nonpartisan Thomas Clarges Unopposed N A N A General election c April 1661 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan Philip Warwick Elected N A N A Nonpartisan Richard Everard Elected N A N A Nonpartisan Thomas Clarges Defeated N A N A Nonpartisan Thomas Elliot Defeated N A N A Note 1661 Vote totals unavailable General Election 27 February 1679 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan Stephen Fox Elected N A N A Nonpartisan William Pulteney Elected N A N A Nonpartisan Philip Matthews Defeated N A N A Nonpartisan William Waller Defeated N A N A Note February 1679 Vote totals unavailable General Election 19 September 1679 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan William Pulteney Elected N A N A Nonpartisan Francis Wythens Elected N A N A Nonpartisan William Waller Defeated N A N A Nonpartisan John Cutler Defeated N A N A Nonpartisan Philip Matthews Defeated N A N A Note September 1679 Vote totals unavailable On petition Wythens was unseated and William Waller seated on 15 November 1680 General election 10 February 1681 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan William Pulteney Elected N A N A Nonpartisan William Waller Elected N A N A Nonpartisan Richard Tufton Defeated N A N A Note 1681 Vote totals unavailable General election 23 March 1685 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Tory Charles Bonython Elected N A N A Tory Michael Arnold Elected N A N A Whig Gilbert Gerard Defeated N A N A Whig William Dolbern Defeated N A N A Note 1685 Vote totals unavailable The candidate in this election is not the Gilbert Gerard elected in 1660 nor is he the Gilbert Gerard who was knight of the shire for Middlesex earlier in the century General election 21 January 1689 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig William Pulteney Elected N A N A Whig Philip Howard Elected N A N A Tory Roger Langley Defeated N A N A Tory Charles Bonython Defeated N A N A Radical Philip Matthews Defeated N A N A Tory Walter Clarges Defeated N A N A Radical James Dewey Defeated N A N A Note 1689 Vote totals unavailable Matthews and Dewey are described by Henning as radical candidates but should not be confused with the followers of John Wilkes in the late eighteenth century or the radicals of the nineteenth century Election results Parliament of Great Britain 1715 1800 edit General election 24 January 1715 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Edward Wortley Montagu Unopposed N A N A Tory Thomas Crosse Unopposed N A N A General Election 27 March 1722 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Tory Archibald Hutcheson 4 024 32 7 N A Tory John Cotton 3 853 31 4 N A Whig William Lowndes 2 215 18 0 N A Whig Thomas Crosse 2 197 17 9 N A Robert Molesworth W was proposed but withdrew before the poll Election declared void 6 November 1722 By Election 3 December 1722 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Charles Montagu 4 835 30 9 30 9 Whig George Carpenter 4 515 28 8 28 8 Tory John Cotton 3 485 22 3 9 1 Tory Thomas Clarges 2 827 18 1 18 1 General election 15 August 1727 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Charles Cavendish Unopposed N A N A Whig William Clayton Unopposed N A N A General election 22 April 1734 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Charles Wager Unopposed N A N A Whig William Clayton Unopposed N A N A Clayton created an Irish peer as 1st Baron Sundon 2 June 1735 General election 8 May 1741 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Charles Wager 3 686 27 0 N A Whig William Clayton 3 533 25 8 N A Tory Edward Vernon 3 290 24 1 New Tory Charles Edwin 3 161 23 1 New Election declared void 22 December 1741 By Election 31 December 1741 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Tory John Perceval Unopposed N A N A Tory Charles Edwin Unopposed N A N A General election 1 July 1747 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Granville Leveson Gower Viscount Trentham 2 873 42 3 N A Whig Peter Warren 2 858 42 1 N A Tory Thomas Clarges 544 8 0 N A Tory Thomas Dyke 514 7 6 N A Trentham appointed a Lord of the Admiralty By Election 15 May 1750 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Whig Granville Leveson Gower Viscount Trentham 4 811 50 8 8 5 Tory George Vandeput 15 4 654 49 2 49 2 Majority 157 1 6 N A Whig hold Swing N A After a scrutiny the member returned was unchanged and vote totals were amended to Trentham 4 103 Vandeput 3 933 Death of Warren 29 July 1752 By Election 16 January 1753 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Whig Edward Cornwallis Unopposed N A N A Whig hold Swing N A General election 20 April 1754 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan Edward Cornwallis 3 385 48 1 N A Nonpartisan John Crosse 3 184 45 2 N A Nonpartisan James Oglethorpe 261 3 7 N A Nonpartisan Charles Sackville 209 3 0 N A General election 25 March 1761 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan Edward Cornwallis Unopposed N A N A Nonpartisan William Pulteney Unopposed N A N A Cornwallis appointed Governor of Gibraltar By Election 27 April 1762 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan Edwin Sandys Unopposed N A N A Nonpartisan hold Swing N A Death of Pulteney 11 February 1763 By Election 15 March 1763 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan Hugh Percy Unopposed N A N A Nonpartisan hold Swing N A Lord Warkworth became known by the courtesy title of Earl Percy from 1766 when his father was advanced in the peerage from Earl to Duke of Northumberland General election 16 March 1768 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan Edwin Sandys Unopposed N A N A Nonpartisan Hugh Percy Unopposed N A N A Succession of Sandys as 2nd Baron Sandys 21 April 1770 By Election 30 April 1770 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan Robert Bernard Unopposed N A N A Nonpartisan hold Swing N A General election 26 October 1774 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Government Northite Hugh Percy 4 994 33 8 N A Government Northite Thomas Pelham Clinton 4 774 32 3 N A Radical Hervey Redmond Morres 2 531 17 1 N A Radical Charles Stanhope 2 342 15 9 N A Nonpartisan Humphrey Cotes 130 0 9 N A Succession of Percy to his mother s title as 3rd Baron Percy on 5 December 1776 By Election 17 December 1776 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan Charles Stanhope Unopposed N A N A Nonpartisan hold Swing N A Succession of Petersham as 3rd Earl of Harrington 1 April 1779 By Election 20 April 1779 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Nonpartisan George Capell Coningsby Unopposed N A N A Nonpartisan hold Swing N A Pelham Clinton was known by the courtesy title of Earl of Lincoln following the death of his brother in 1779 General election 10 October 1780 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig George Brydges Rodney 4 994 35 6 35 6 Whig Charles James Fox 4 878 34 8 34 8 Tory Thomas Pelham Clinton 4 157 29 6 2 7 Note 1780 Poll 21 days 9 136 voted party labels Source Stooks Smith Appointment of Fox as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 27 March 1782 By Election 3 April 1782 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Whig Charles James Fox Unopposed N A N A Whig hold Swing N A Creation of Rodney as 1st Baron Rodney 19 June 1782 By Election 12 June 1782 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Whig Cecil Wray Unopposed N A N A Whig hold Swing N A Appointment of Fox as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 2 April 1783 By Election 7 April 1783 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Whig Charles James Fox Unopposed N A N A Whig hold Swing N A General election 17 May 1784 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Tory Samuel Hood 6 588 35 4 35 4 Whig Charles James Fox 6 126 32 9 1 9 Whig Cecil Wray 5 895 31 7 31 7 Note 1784 Poll 40 days 12 301 voted After a scrutiny the members returned were unchanged and vote totals were amended to the figures as above Original votes Hood 6 694 Fox 6 234 Wray 5 998 Source Stooks Smith Hood and Fox were declared elected 4 March 1785 Appointment of Hood as a Commissioner of the Admiralty 16 July 1788 By Election 4 August 1788 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Whig John Townshend 6 392 53 4 53 4 Tory Samuel Hood 5 569 46 6 11 2 Majority 823 6 9 N A Whig gain from Tory Swing N A Note 1788 Poll 15 days Source Stooks Smith General election 2 July 1790 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Charles James Fox 3 516 41 8 8 9 Tory Samuel Hood 3 217 38 2 2 8 Whig John Horne Tooke 1 679 20 0 20 0 Note 1790 Poll 15 days Mr Tooke proposed himself Source Stooks Smith General election 13 June 1796 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Charles James Fox 5 160 40 3 1 5 Tory Alan Gardner 4 814 37 6 0 6 Whig John Horne Tooke 2 819 22 0 2 1 Expulsion of Fox from the Privy Council 9 May 1798 Creation of Gardner as an Irish peer 1st Baron Gardner 29 December 1800 Election results Parliament of the United Kingdom edit General election 15 July 1802 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Charles James Fox 2 671 39 3 1 0 Tory Alan Gardner 2 431 35 8 1 9 Radical John Graham Westminster candidate 1 693 24 9 New Majority 4 124 10 9 4 7 Turnout 6 795 Whig hold Swing Tory hold Swing Note 1802 Poll 9 days Source Stooks Smith Appointment of Fox as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 7 February 1806 By Election 13 February 1806 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Whig Charles James Fox Unopposed N A N A Whig hold Death of Fox 13 September 1806 By Election 7 October 1806 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Whig Hugh Percy Unopposed N A N A Whig hold General election 19 November 1806 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Tory Samuel Hood 5 478 37 2 1 4 Whig Richard Brinsley Sheridan 4 758 32 3 7 0 Radical James Paull 4 481 30 5 5 6 Majority 277 1 8 N A Turnout 14 717 Tory hold Swing Whig gain from Radical Swing Note 1806 Poll 15 days 10 277 voted Source Stooks Smith General election 23 May 1807 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Francis Burdett 5 134 37 0 37 0 Whig Thomas Cochrane 3 708 26 8 26 8 Whig Richard Brinsley Sheridan 2 615 18 9 13 5 Tory John Elliot Westminster candidate 2 137 15 4 21 8 Radical James Paull 269 1 9 28 6 Majority 93 11 4 N A Turnout 13 594 Whig gain from Tory Swing Whig hold Swing Note 1807 Poll 15 days 8 622 voted Source Stooks Smith General election 8 October 1812 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Francis Burdett Unopposed N A N A Whig Thomas Cochrane Unopposed N A N A Expulsion of Cochrane from the House of Commons after being convicted of conspiracy 5 July 1814 By Election 16 July 1814 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Whig Thomas Cochrane Unopposed N A N A Whig hold General election 4 July 1818 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Samuel Romilly 5 339 34 3 N A Whig Francis Burdett 5 238 33 7 N A Tory Murray Maxwell 4 808 30 9 New Radical Henry Hunt 84 0 5 N A Whig Douglas Kinnaird 65 0 4 N A Radical John Cartwright 23 0 2 N A Majority 430 2 8 8 6 Turnout 15 557 Whig hold Swing Whig hold Swing Note 1818 Poll 15 days 10 277 voted Source Stooks Smith Death of Romilly 2 November 1818 By Election 3 March 1819 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Tory George Lamb 4 465 53 38 22 47 Whig John Hobhouse 3 861 46 2 46 2 Radical John Cartwright 38 0 5 0 3 Majority 604 7 2 N A Turnout 8 364 Tory gain from Whig Swing Note 1819 Poll 15 days Source Stooks Smith General election 25 March 1820 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Francis Burdett 5 327 36 4 2 7 Whig John Hobhouse 4 882 33 3 33 3 Tory George Lamb 4 436 30 3 0 6 Majority 446 3 0 0 2 Turnout 14 645 Whig hold Swing Whig hold Swing Note 1820 Poll 15 days 9 280 voted Source Stooks Smith General election 1826 Westminster 2 seats Party Candidate Votes Whig Francis Burdett Unopposed N A N A Whig John Hobhouse Unopposed N A N A General election 1830 Westminster 2 seats 2 Party Candidate Votes Radical Francis Burdett Unopposed Radical John Hobhouse Unopposed Radical hold Radical hold General election 1831 Westminster 2 seats 2 Party Candidate Votes Radical Francis Burdett Unopposed Radical John Hobhouse Unopposed Radical hold Radical hold Appointment of Hobhouse as Secretary at War By election February 1832 Westminster 2 Party Candidate Votes Radical John Hobhouse Unopposed Radical hold General election 1832 Westminster 2 seats 10 2 Party Candidate Votes Radical Francis Burdett 3 248 43 1 N A Radical John Hobhouse 3 214 42 6 N A Radical De Lacy Evans 1 076 14 3 N A Majority 2 138 28 3 N A Turnout 4 453 38 5 N A Registered electors 11 576 Radical hold Swing N A Radical hold Swing N A Appointment of Hobhouse as Chief Secretary for Ireland By election 4 April 1833 Westminster 10 2 Party Candidate Votes Radical John Hobhouse Unopposed Radical hold Resignation of Hobhouse by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds after he left the Ministry in opposition to the House and Window taxes By election 11 May 1833 Westminster 10 2 Party Candidate Votes Radical De Lacy Evans 2 027 44 1 29 8 Radical John Hobhouse 1 835 39 9 2 7 Tory Bickham Escott 738 16 0 New Majority 1 097 23 8 4 5 Turnout 4 600 39 7 1 2 Registered electors 11 576 Radical hold Swing N A General election 1835 Westminster 2 seats 10 2 Party Candidate Votes Radical Francis Burdett 2 747 40 0 3 1 Radical De Lacy Evans 2 588 37 7 23 4 Conservative Thomas John Cochrane 1 528 22 3 N A Majority 1 060 15 4 12 9 Turnout 4 254 32 1 6 4 Registered electors 13 268 Radical hold Swing N A Radical hold Swing N A Resignation of Burdett to seek re election on changing parties By election 12 May 1837 Westminster 10 2 Party Candidate Votes Conservative Francis Burdett 3 567 53 9 31 6 Radical John Temple Leader 3 052 46 1 31 6 Majority 515 7 8 N A Turnout 6 619 43 4 11 3 Registered electors 15 262 Conservative gain from Radical Swing 31 6 General election 27 July 1837 Westminster 2 seats 10 2 Party Candidate Votes Radical John Temple Leader 3 793 37 5 2 5 Radical De Lacy Evans 3 715 36 7 1 0 Conservative George Murray 2 620 25 9 3 6 Majority 1 095 10 8 4 6 Turnout 6 350 41 6 9 5 Registered electors 15 262 Radical hold Swing 2 2 Radical hold Swing 1 4 General election 1 July 1841 Westminster 2 seats 10 2 Party Candidate Votes Conservative Henry John Rous 3 338 33 8 7 9 Radical John Temple Leader 3 281 33 2 4 3 Radical De Lacy Evans 3 258 33 0 3 7 Majority 57 0 6 N A Turnout 6 596 47 9 6 3 Registered electors 13 767 Conservative gain from Radical Swing 7 9 Radical hold Swing 4 1 Appointment of Rous as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty By election 19 February 1846 Westminster 10 Party Candidate Votes Radical De Lacy Evans 3 843 56 9 10 7 Conservative Henry John Rous 2 906 43 1 10 6 Majority 937 13 8 N A Turnout 6 749 45 6 2 3 Registered electors 14 801 Radical gain from Conservative Swing 10 7 General election 30 July 1847 Westminster 2 seats 10 Party Candidate Votes Radical De Lacy Evans 3 139 29 1 38 5 Whig Charles Lushington 2 831 26 3 N A Whig Charles Cochrane 2 819 26 2 N A Conservative William Montagu 1 985 18 4 16 1 Turnout 7 185 49 3 1 4 Registered electors 14 572 Majority 308 2 9 N A Radical hold Swing Majority 846 7 9 N A Whig gain from Conservative Swing Note 1847 14 125 registered Craig s figure above used for the turnout calculation 7 185 voted Evans was classified as a Radical Lushington and Cochrane as Whigs and Rous as a Tory Source Stooks Smith General election 9 July 1852 Westminster 2 seats 10 Party Candidate Votes Whig John Shelley 4 199 32 2 20 3 Radical De Lacy Evans 3 756 28 8 0 3 Conservative William Montagu 3 373 25 9 7 5 Radical William Coningham 11 1 716 13 2 N A Turnout 6 522 est 43 8 est 5 5 Registered electors 14 883 Majority 443 3 4 4 5 Whig hold Swing 10 0 Majority 383 2 9 Radical hold Swing 3 9 General election 1857 Westminster 2 seats 10 Party Candidate Votes Radical De Lacy Evans Unopposed Whig John Shelley Unopposed Registered electors 13 182 Radical hold Whig hold General election 1859 Westminster 2 seats 10 Party Candidate Votes Liberal De Lacy Evans Unopposed Liberal John Shelley Unopposed Registered electors 13 801 Liberal hold Liberal hold General election 12 July 1865 Westminster 2 seats 10 Party Candidate Votes Liberal Robert Grosvenor 4 534 35 2 N A Liberal John Stuart Mill 4 525 35 1 N A Liberal Conservative William Henry Smith 3 824 29 7 New Majority 701 5 4 N A Turnout 8 354 est 66 6 est N A Registered electors 12 546 Liberal hold Swing N A Liberal hold Swing N A William Henry Smith described himself as a Liberal Conservative in support of Liberal prime minister Lord Palmerston General election 12 November 1868 Westminster 2 seats 10 Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Henry Smith 7 648 37 3 7 6 Liberal Robert Grosvenor 6 584 32 1 3 1 Liberal John Stuart Mill 6 284 30 6 4 5 Majority 1 064 5 7 N A Turnout 14 082 est 74 6 est 8 0 Registered electors 18 879 Conservative gain from Liberal Swing 7 6 Liberal hold Swing 3 5 General election 7 February 1874 Westminster 2 seats 10 Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Henry Smith 9 371 35 7 17 0 Conservative Charles Russell 8 681 33 1 14 4 Liberal Thomas Buxton 4 749 18 1 14 0 Liberal William Codrington 3 435 13 1 17 5 Majority 3 932 15 0 9 3 Turnout 13 118 est 66 1 est 8 5 Registered electors 19 845 Conservative hold Swing 16 4 Conservative gain from Liberal Swing 15 1 Appointment of Smith as First Lord of the Admiralty By election 11 August 1877 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Henry Smith Unopposed Conservative hold General election 1880 Westminster 2 seats 10 Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Henry Smith 9 093 29 3 6 4 Conservative Charles Russell 8 930 28 8 4 3 Liberal John Morley 6 564 21 2 3 1 Liberal Arthur Hobhouse 6 443 20 8 7 7 Majority 2 366 7 6 7 4 Turnout 15 515 est 73 6 est 7 5 Registered electors 21 081 Conservative hold Swing 4 8 Conservative hold Swing 6 0 Resignation of Russell By Election 10 February 1882 Westminster 10 Party Candidate Votes Conservative Algernon Percy Unopposed Conservative hold Appointment of Smith as Secretary of State for War By Election 29 June 1885 Westminster 10 Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Henry Smith Unopposed Conservative hold Constituency reduced to one seat and boundaries changed in the redistribution of 1885Election results 1885 1918 editDecades 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s Elections in the 1880s edit nbsp Beesly General election 1885 Westminster 16 Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Burdett Coutts 3 991 69 7 11 6 Liberal Edward Spencer Beesly 1 736 30 3 11 7 Majority 2 255 39 4 31 8 Turnout 5 727 74 7 1 1 est Registered electors 7 670 Conservative hold Swing 11 7 General election 1886 Westminster 16 Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Burdett Coutts Unopposed Conservative hold Elections in the 1890s edit nbsp Jones General election 1892 Westminster 16 Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Burdett Coutts 3 548 64 9 N A Liberal Leif Jones 1 916 35 1 New Majority 1 632 29 8 N A Turnout 5 464 68 5 N A Registered electors 7 971 Conservative hold General election 1895 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Burdett Coutts Unopposed Conservative hold Elections in the 1900s edit General election 1900 Westminster 17 16 Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Burdett Coutts 2 715 86 1 N A Ind Conservative H H Montague Smith 439 13 9 New Majority 2 276 72 2 N A Turnout 3 154 42 8 N A Registered electors 7 367 Conservative hold General election 1906 Westminster 16 Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Burdett Coutts 3 167 60 7 25 4 Liberal Vere Hobart 2 054 39 3 New Majority 1 113 21 4 50 8 Turnout 5 221 69 3 26 5 Registered electors 7 539 Conservative hold Elections in the 1910s edit General election January 1910 Westminster Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Burdett Coutts 3 917 69 1 8 4 Liberal Vere Hobart 1 751 30 9 8 4 Majority 2 166 38 2 16 8 Turnout 7 284 77 8 8 5 Conservative hold Swing 8 4 General election December 1910 Westminster 18 Party Candidate Votes Conservative William Burdett Coutts 3 397 73 4 4 3 Liberal Harry de Pass 1 228 26 6 4 3 Majority 2 169 46 8 8 6 Turnout 7 284 63 5 14 3 Conservative hold Swing 4 3See also editList of parliamentary constituencies in London Duration of English 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