| Camborne | |
| Type: | County |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Elects Howmany: | One |
| Previous: | West Cornwall |
| Next: | Falmouth and Camborne and St Ives |
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.
1885–1918: Part of the Sessional Division of Penwith East, and the civil parishes of Gwennap and St Agnes.
1918–1950: The Borough of Helston, the Urban Districts of Camborne, Hayle, Phillack, and Redruth, the Rural District of Redruth, in the Rural District of East Kerrier the parishes of Constantine, Mabe, and Perranarworthal, in the Rural District of Helston the parishes of Crowan and Wendron, and in the Rural District of Truro the parishes of Kea, Kenwyn Rural, Perranzabuloe, St Agnes, St Allen, and Tregavethan.
| Year | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Charles Conybeare | Liberal | ||
| 1895 | Arthur Strauss | Liberal Unionist | ||
| 1900 | William Sproston Caine | Liberal | ||
| 1903 by-election | Sir Wilfrid Lawson | Liberal | ||
| 1906 | Albert Dunn | Liberal | ||
| 1910 | Sir Francis Acland | Liberal | ||
| 1922 | Algernon Moreing | National Liberal | ||
| 1923 | Leif Jones | Independent Liberal (sat with Liberal Party when elected) | ||
| 1924 | Algernon Moreing | Constitutionalist | ||
| 1924 | Unionist | |||
| 1929 | Leif Jones | Liberal | ||
| 1931 | Sir Peter Agnew | Conservative | ||
| 1950 | constituency abolished | |||
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
General Election 1939–40:Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;