Esher | |
Parliament: | uk |
Year: | 1950 |
Abolished: | 1997 |
Type: | Borough |
Elects Howmany: | One |
Previous: | Epsom (parts of) Chertsey (taking Weybridge, Walton, Hersham, East and West Molesey) |
Next: | Esher & Walton Mole Valley (return of four rural wards) |
Next5: | Chertsey and Walton (existed 1974-1997) |
Region: | England |
County: | Surrey |
Esher was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. In the general elections during its 47-year lifetime it was won by three Conservatives successively. In area it shrank in 1974, then regrew in 1983 taking in four sparsely inhabited wards which proved to be temporary, as omitted from the successor seat, Esher and Walton.
1950–1974: Urban Districts of Esher, and Walton and Weybridge.
1974–1983: The Urban District of Esher.[1]
Walton, Hersham, Weybridge and Oatlands were transferred to the new Chertsey and Walton seat.
1983–1997:
Neighbours with borders of more than were:
or their variations including:
Election | Member | Party | Other terms served as MP | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1950 | William Robson-Brown | Conservative | None | ||
1970 | Carol Mather | Conservative | None | ||
1987 | Ian Taylor | Conservative | 1997-2010 for Esher and Walton | ||
1997 | constituency abolished: see Esher and Walton |