Westminster St George's, originally named St George's, Hanover Square, was a parliamentary constituency in Central London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system of election.
History The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was then named "St George Hanover Square" after the parish of the same name.
It was renamed in 1918 as "Westminster St George's", and abolished in 1950.
Boundaries
1885–1918 From 1885 to 1918, when the constituency was known as St George Hanover Square, it was defined as being coterminous with the civil parish of the same name. In 1900 the parish was included for local government purposes in the area of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster. This did not affect the name or boundaries of the constituency until 1918.London Government Act 1899, Schedule 1
1918–1950 The Boundary Commission report of 1918 (Cd. 8756), at Schedule-Part II no. 78, defined the constituency as the following wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster:
Conduit: A small ward running from the top of Regent Street down through Hanover Square, the eastern side of Berkeley Square, and down to the Ritz on Piccadilly. Grosvenor: Covering the whole of Mayfair and the northern half of Hyde Park. Hamlet of Knightsbridge: The southern half of Hyde Park, together with Knightsbridge and part of the museums area north of South Kensington including the Royal Albert Hall. Knightsbridge St. George's: The area of Belgravia. Victoria: A very large ward running from Buckingham Palace south to include Victoria Station, and Pimlico.
The constituency also included "the part of the Charing Cross Ward which lies to the south and west of a line drawn from the ward boundary at the centre of Wellington Arch, along the middle of Constitution Hill, thence along the middle of the road to the north and east of the Queen Victoria Memorial, thence along the middle of Spur Road to boundary of St. Margaret Ward". This area included the remainder of the grounds of Buckingham Palace which were not in the Victoria Ward, but contained no electors. The boundary commissioners proposals were enacted by Schedule 9 of the Representation of the People Act 1918.
Members of Parliament YearMemberParty 1885 Lord Algernon Percy Conservative 1887 George Goschen Liberal Unionist 1893 Conservative 1900 Hon. Heneage Legge Conservative 1906 Hon. Alfred Lyttelton Liberal Unionist 1912 Unionist 1913 Sir Alexander Henderson Unionist 1916 Sir George Reid Unionist 1918 Sir Newton Moore Unionist 1918 Walter Long Unionist 1921 James Erskine Anti-Waste League/Independent Conservative 1923 Unionist 1929 Sir Laming Worthington-Evans Unionist 1931 Duff Cooper Conservative 1945 Arthur Howard Conservative 1950 constituency abolished
Elections Elections in the 1880s
Percy's resignation caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1890s
Goschen was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, requiring a by-election.
Goschen switched to the Conservatives to join the Carlton Club.
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1940s
References
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885 – 1918 F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 – 1949