Chislehurst (UK Parliament constituency)

Chislehurst
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Kent
1918 (1918)–1997 (1997)
Replaced by	Bromley and Chislehurst
Created from	Sevenoaks

Chislehurst was a parliamentary constituency in what is now the London Borough of Bromley. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Bromley and Chislehurst constituency.

Boundaries

From 1885, most of the area of this constituency had been included in the Sevenoaks seat.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Alfred Smithers	Unionist
	1922	Robert Nesbitt	Unionist
	1924	Sir Waldron Smithers	Conservative
	1945	George Wallace	Labour
	1950	Patricia Hornsby-Smith	Conservative
	1966	Alistair Macdonald	Labour
	1970	Patricia Hornsby-Smith	Conservative
	Feb 1974	Roger Sims	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Chislehurst[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Roger Sims	24,761	58.4	+0.7
	Labour	RI Wingfield	9,485	22.4	+3.0
	Liberal Democrat	TWM Hawthorne	6,683	15.8	−7.3
	Liberal	I Richmond	849	2.0	−21.0
	Green	Mrs FM Speed	652	1.5	+1.5
Majority			15,276	36.0	+1.4
Turnout			42,430	78.9	+3.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.1

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)

1. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.