Westminster Abbey (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1950 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Westminster Abbey was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons by the first past the post system of election.
Westminster Abbey | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Strand and Westminster |
Replaced by | Cities of London and Westminster |
It was created for the 1918 general election, and included all of the former Westminster constituency, as reduced in area in 1885, apart from its Knightsbridge exclave, plus all of the former Strand constituency. It continued to exist until the 1950 general election, when it was merged with the two-seat City of London constituency to form a single-member seat named Cities of London and Westminster.
The seat was sometimes known as the Abbey Division of Westminster or simply Abbey. It was held by the Conservative Party for its entire existence.