Brentford and Chiswick was a constituency 1918 – 1974 centred on the Brentford and Chiswick districts of

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which became parts of west London in 1965. It returned one member (MP) to the

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of the

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. Its electoral outcomes were

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except for siding with the Labour Party's victories which returned the Attlee Ministry (in 1945) and Second Wilson Ministry (in 1966).

Boundaries

This former constituency is toward the south-west of the historic county of

, in what is since 1965 west London. It was established as a division of the county of Middlesex, named after the towns of Brentford and Chiswick. In the 1885–1918 distribution of parliamentary seats it had been the eastern part of the Brentford division. In 1918 the constituency comprised the Brentford and the Chiswick Urban Districts. In 1927 the two districts were combined to form a single Brentford and Chiswick Urban District, which in 1932 became the

Municipal Borough of Brentford and Chiswick Brentford and Chiswick was a local government district of Middlesex, England from 1927 to 1965. History It was created an urban district in 1927 by a merger of the former area of the Brentford Urban District and the Chiswick Urban District. It ...

. In 1950 the boundaries of the seat were left unchanged, but it was reclassified as a borough constituency. In 1965 Brentford and Chiswick became part of the

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and Greater London. The seat rapidly became under-sized in electorate, see

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– the area forming the seat was unusually declining in population, with in the 1918 to 1930 period the major loss of servants and lodgers among many of the larger houses particularly in Chiswick, and areas of reduction of overly dense housing in Brentford. Little space remained in the seat for new building compared with other seats to the west and north. The rest of the county saw major population growth. One key area of growth in this seat was instead in the number of commercial plants, yards and offices adjoining the 'Golden Mile', Brentford.'Ealing and Brentford: Growth of Brentford', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7 (1982), pp. 113–20
Retrieved 11 June 2017 In the redistribution of parliamentary seats, which took effect at the February 1974 general election, this seat was replaced by Brentford and Isleworth which took in the eastern half of abolished Heston and Isleworth.

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

References

* ''Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brentford And Chiswick (Uk Parliament Constituency) History of the London Borough of Hounslow Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1974 Politics of the London Borough of Hounslow Brentford, London Chiswick 1918 establishments in England 1974 disestablishments in England