Brentford (UK Parliament constituency)

Brentford
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Brentford and Chiswick, Spelthorne and Twickenham
Created from	Middlesex

Brentford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Brentford district of west London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

Boundaries

This former constituency is located in the south-west of the historic county of Middlesex, in what is now West London. It was a division of the county, named after the town of Brentford, on the north (or Middlesex) bank of the River Thames.

The seat was surrounded by the constituencies of Ealing to the north-east, Kingston to the east, Epsom to the south and Uxbridge to the west and north-west.

In 1965 the town of Brentford became part of the London Borough of Hounslow and Greater London.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Octavius Edward Coope	Conservative
	1886 by-election	James Bigwood	Conservative
	1906	Vickerman Henzell Rutherford	Liberal
	1910	Lord Alwyne Compton	Conservative
	1911 by-election	William Joynson-Hicks	Conservative
1918		constituency abolished: see Brentford and Chiswick

Election results

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1906: Brentford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dr. Vickerman Henzell Rutherford	6,506	51.8	n/a
	Conservative	James Bigwood	6,053	48.2	n/a
Majority			453	3.6	n/a
Turnout				73.2	n/a
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1910s

General Election December 1910: Brentford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton	9,197	60.0
	Liberal	William George Lobjoit	6,124	40.0
Majority				20.0
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

Brentford by-election, 1911

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

References

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1974)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)