Brixton (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Brixton Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1974 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Brixton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Brixton district of South 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 February 1974 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Lambeth Central constituency.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Ernest Baggallay | Conservative | |
| 1887 | George Osborne, later Duke of Leeds | Conservative | |
| 1896 | Evelyn Hubbard | Conservative | |
| 1900 | Sir Robert Gray Cornish Mowbray | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Joel Herbert Seaverns | Liberal | |
| 1910 | Davison Alexander Dalziel, later Baron Dalziel | Conservative | |
| 1923 | Frederick Joseph Lavarack | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Davison Alexander Dalziel, later Baron Dalziel | Unionist | |
| 1927 | Nigel Claudian Dalziel Colman | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Marcus Lipton | Labour | |
| 1974 | constituency abolished: see Lambeth Central | ||
[edit] Election results
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[edit] References
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
