Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)

Camborne
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)–1950 (1950)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Falmouth and Camborne
Created from	West Cornwall

Camborne was a county constituency in Cornwall which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Falmouth and Camborne.

Between 1885 and 1918 its official name was The North West or Camborne Division of Cornwall, and it was sometimes referred to simply as North West Cornwall.

Boundaries

The Camborne constituency shown within Cornwall and Devon, 1918–1945.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare	Independent Liberal (Radical)
	1886		Liberal
	1895	Arthur Strauss	Conservative
	1900	William Sproston Caine	Liberal
	1903 by-election	Sir Wilfrid Lawson	Liberal
	1906	Albert Edward Dunn	Liberal
	Dec. 1910	Sir Francis Dyke Acland, Bt.	Liberal
	1922	Algernon Henry Moreing	National Liberal
	1923	Leifchild Stratten Jones	Liberal
	1924	Algernon Henry Moreing	Constitutionalist
	1929	Leifchild Stratten Jones	Liberal
	1931	Sir Peter Garnett Agnew	Conservative
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

See also

• Camborne and Redruth (UK Parliament constituency)
• Falmouth and Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)

References

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