| Brentford | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
 | |
| 1885–1918 | |
| Seats | one |
| Created from | Middlesex |
| Replaced by | Brentford and Chiswick; Twickenham |
Brentford was a constituency named after the town of Brentford in Middlesex and was drawn to take in Hounslow, Norwood Green and Twickenham. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The constituency was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for that of 1918.
The local government district of Brentford, the civil parishes of Heston, Isleworth, Norwood (also known as Norwood Green), and Twickenham, and part of the civil parish of Hanwell.
The constituency was in the south-west of Middlesex, in present outer-southwest London. It was one of seven divisions of a soon-to-be County of London). It was named after its medieval market town of Brentford, on the north (Middlesex) bank of the River Thames.[1] The seat bordered the Ealing division to the north and north-east, Kingston to the south-east and Uxbridge from the north-west to south-west.
Brentford had been the husting place for the two-member county of Middlesex since 1700, 155 years after the formation of the second breakaway urban division of Middlesex, the two-member seat of Westminster.[2] The county as a whole saw 47 members replacing 18 before 1885, the greatest absolute rise of any county at a national boundary review.[1]
Both of the seat's successors took in parts of an adjoining Middlesex division (seat).[3]
In 1965 the area of this old division became parts of the London Boroughs of Hounslow, Richmond upon Thames and Ealing.[4]
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Octavius Coope | Conservative | |
| 1886 | James Bigwood | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Vickerman Rutherford | Liberal | |
| 1910 | Lord Alwyne Compton | Conservative | |
| 1911 | William Joynson-Hicks | Conservative | |
| 1918 | constituency abolished | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Octavius Coope | 3,563 | 61.1 | ||
| Liberal | James Haysman | 2,267 | 38.9 | ||
| Majority | 1,296 | 22.2 | |||
| Turnout | 5,830 | 73.1 | |||
| Registered electors | 7,971 | ||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Octavius Coope | 3,043 | 68.4 | +7.3 | |
| Liberal | James Haysman | 1,409 | 31.6 | -7.3 | |
| Majority | 1,634 | 36.8 | +14.6 | ||
| Turnout | 4,452 | 55.9 | -17.2 | ||
| Registered electors | 7,971 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +7.3 | |||
Coope's death caused a by-election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | James Bigwood | 2,572 | 66.2 | −2.2 | |
| Liberal | James Haysman | 1,316 | 33.8 | +2.2 | |
| Majority | 1,256 | 32.4 | −4.4 | ||
| Turnout | 3,888 | 48.8 | −7.1 | ||
| Registered electors | 7,971 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −2.2 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | James Bigwood | 4,417 | 62.7 | −5.7 | |
| Liberal | Harry Heldmann | 2,625 | 37.3 | +5.7 | |
| Majority | 1,792 | 25.4 | −11.4 | ||
| Turnout | 7,042 | 70.6 | +14.7 | ||
| Registered electors | 9,975 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -3.5 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | James Bigwood | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | James Bigwood | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Vickerman Rutherford | 6,506 | 51.8 | New | |
| Conservative | James Bigwood | 6,053 | 48.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 453 | 3.6 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 12,559 | 73.2 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 17,153 | ||||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | N/A | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Alwyne Compton | 10,675 | 61.0 | +12.8 | |
| Liberal | Vickerman Rutherford | 6,819 | 39.0 | −12.8 | |
| Majority | 3,856 | 22.0 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 17,494 | 84.5 | +11.3 | ||
| Registered electors | 20,701 | ||||
| Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +12.8 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Alwyne Compton | 9,199 | 60.0 | -1.0 | |
| Liberal | William George Lobjoit | 6,124 | 40.0 | +1.0 | |
| Majority | 3,075 | 20.0 | -2.0 | ||
| Turnout | 15,323 | 74.0 | -10.5 | ||
| Registered electors | 20,701 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -1.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | William Joynson-Hicks | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;