St Pancras East (UK Parliament constituency)

St Pancras East
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Number of members	one

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

History

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

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Thomas Eccleston Gibb	Liberal
	1886	Robert Grant Webster	Conservative
	1899	Sir Thomas Wrightson	Conservative
	1906	Hugh Cecil Lea	Liberal
	1910 (Jan)	Joseph Martin	Liberal
	1918 change		Labour
	1918	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: St Pancras East ^[1][2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Thomas Eccleston Gibb	2,416	52.7	n/a
	Conservative	Robert Grant Webster	2,170	47.3	n/a
Majority			246	5.4	n/a
Turnout				77.6	n/a
	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 Eccleston Gibb	1,826	44.0	-8.7
Majority			501	12.0	17.4
Turnout				70.2	-7.4
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+8.7

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: St Pancras East ^[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Robert Grant Webster	2,621
	Liberal	Thomas Eccleston Gibb	2,180
Majority			441
Turnout				72.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1895: St Pancras East ^[1][2][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Robert Grant Webster	2,612	52.9
	Liberal	Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe	2,322	47.1
Majority				5.8
Turnout				70.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Pancras East by-election, 1899^[1][2][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Thomas Wrightson	2,610	51.9
	Liberal	Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe	2,423	48.1
Majority			187	3.8
Turnout				70.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: St Pancras East ^[1][2][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Thomas Wrightson	3,016	58.9
	Liberal	John Meir Astbury	2,106	41.1
Majority			910	17.8
Turnout				70.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Lea

General Election 1906: St Pancras East ^[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Hugh Cecil Lea	4,208	64.4
	Conservative	Sir Thomas Wrightson	2,327	35.6
Majority			1,881	28.8
Turnout				82.1
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

Martin

General Election January 1910: St Pancras East ^[1][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Hon. Joseph Martin	4,276	54.4
	Conservative	Walter Reuben Preston	3,586	45.6
Majority				8.8
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: St Pancras East ^[1][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Hon. Joseph Martin	3,891	56.0
	Conservative	John Wells Wainwright Hopkins	3,038	43.7
	Suffragist	Herbert Jacobs	22	0.3	n/a
Majority			853	12.3
Turnout			6,951	73.3
	Liberal hold		Swing

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;

• Liberal: Hon. Joseph Martin
• Unionist: John Wells Wainwright Hopkins

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, 1916
8. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)