Harrow (UK Parliament constituency)

Harrow
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1945
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Ealing West, Harrow West and Wembley South
Created from	Middlesex

Harrow was a parliamentary constituency in Middlesex (now part of Greater London). It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Harrow within Middlesex 1918-45

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election.

Boundaries

1918-1945: The Urban Districts of Harrow on the Hill, Greenford, Hanwell, Wealdstone, and Wembley.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Ambrose	Conservative
	1899 by-election	Irwin Cox	Conservative
	1906	James Gibb	Liberal
	Jan. 1910	Harry Mallaby-Deeley	Conservative
	1918	Oswald Ernald Mosley	Conservative
	1922		Independent
	1924		Labour
	1924	Sir Isidore Salmon	Conservative
	1941 by-election	Norman Bower	Conservative
1945		constituency abolished: see Harrow East and Harrow West

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

Milner

General Election 1885: Harrow ^[1][2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	William Ambrose	4,214	56.5	n/a
	Liberal	Alfred Milner	3,241	43.5	n/a
Majority			973	13.0	n/a
Turnout				71.4	n/a
	Conservative win (new seat)

General Election 1886: Harrow ^[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	William Ambrose	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1890s

Ambrose

General Election 1892: Harrow ^[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	William Ambrose	6,047	63.8	n/a
	Liberal	Isaac Thomas Sadler	3,428	36.2	n/a
Majority			2,619	27.6	n/a
Turnout				67.8	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1895: Harrow ^[1][2][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	William Ambrose	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Harrow by-election, 1895^[1][2][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	William Ambrose	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Harrow by-election, 1899 ^[1][2][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox	6,303	54.8	n/a
	Liberal	J Corrie Grant	5,198	45.2	n/a
Majority			1,105	9.6	n/a
Turnout				62.4	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Harrow ^[1][2][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

James Gibb

General Election 1906: Harrow ^[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	James Gibb	11,393	50.9	n/a
	Liberal Unionist	Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel	10,977	49.1	n/a
Majority			416	1.8	n/a
Turnout			22,370	78.1	n/a
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Harrow ^[1][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley	16,761	55.3	+6.2
	Liberal	Percy Alfred Harris	13,575	44.7	-6.2
Majority			3,186	10.6	12.4
Turnout				85.7	+7.6
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+6.2

General Election December 1910: Harrow ^[1][9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

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: Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley
• Liberal: Harry Evan Auguste Cotton

Mosley

General Election 1918: Harrow^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Oswald Ernald Mosley	13,950	82.3
	Independent Unionist	Arthur Robert Chamberlayne	3,007	17.7	n/a
Majority			10,934	64.5
Turnout			16,957
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

• endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Harrow^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Oswald Ernald Mosley	15,290	60.8
	Unionist	Edward Hugh Frederick Morris	7,868	39.2
Majority			7,422	32.0
Turnout			23,158
	Independent gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 1923: Harrow^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Oswald Ernald Mosley	14,079	59.9	-6.1
	Unionist	Edward Hugh Frederick Morris	9,433	40.1	+6.1
Majority			4,646	19.8	-12.2
Turnout				64.5
	Independent hold		Swing	-6.1

General Election 1924: Harrow^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Isidore Salmon	16,526
	Labour	Kenneth Martin Lindsay	9,507
	Liberal	Sir Robert Blair	4,320
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist gain from Independent		Swing

General Election 1929: Harrow^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Isidore Salmon	22,466	42.7
	Labour	Hubert Beaumont	15,684	29.8
	Liberal	Clement Edward Page Taylor	12,554	23.8
	Independent	WJ Sholl	1,965	3.7	n/a
Majority			6,782	12.9
Turnout			52,669
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Harrow^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Isidore Salmon	48,068	71.0
	Labour	George Sommerville Sandilands	14,241	21.0
	Liberal	Henry Cecil Banting	5,444	8.0
Majority			33,827	49.9
Turnout			67,753	72.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Harrow^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Isidore Salmon	52,729	62.7
	Labour	Helen Caroline Bentwich	31,422	37.3
Majority			21,307	25.3
Turnout			84,151	64.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Sir Isidore Salmon
• Labour: Maurice S Davidson^[17]
• British Union: Harry Frisby^[18]

Elections in the 1940s

Harrow by-election, 1941^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Norman Adolph Henry Bower	14,540	80.9
	Independent	Miss Winifred Henney	3,433	19.1
Majority			11,107	61.8
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

1. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
2. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
3. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
4. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
5. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
6. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
7. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
8. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
9. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
10. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
11. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
12. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
13. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
14. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
15. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
16. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
17. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
18. British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State by N. Copsey, D. Renton
19. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 347. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 425. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
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