Croydon (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1918 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Croydon was a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1885 to 1918. As with most in its lifetime following the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, it was a seat, that elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Croydon | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Surrey |
Major settlements | Croydon, Addiscombe, Norbury, South Croydon, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Upper Norwood |
1885–1918 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | East Surrey (leaving its bulk, continued) |
Replaced by | Croydon North and Croydon South |
It was won for all but three years by the Conservative candidate, the exception being the years 1906-1909 when that party, as a fellow Unionist party against Irish Home Rule and other devolution in a spell of widespread popular decline held a general meeting endorsing instead H. O. Arnold-Forster, a Liberal Unionist. His 3.2% victory against the candidate of the rest of the Liberal Party coupled with a 20.2% performance for Labour in Croydon which coincided with a Liberal landslide — the First Asquith ministry which brought in the fundamental constitutional reform of the Parliament Act 1911 after the delay for "the People's Budget" to be implemented.[1] He died in 1909 causing a by-election and his party, with its occasional candidates in the region, no longer stood for the Croydon seat nor its north–south successors after 1918. The Labour party fielded a candidate for the second time in the 1909 by-election, polling badly, winning about a fifth of the 1906 vote; the party fielded none in the 1910 elections for this seat.