St Pancras North (UK Parliament constituency) explained

St Pancras North
Parliament:uk
Caption3:St Pancras North in London 1950–74
Year:1885
Abolished:1983
Type:Borough
Elects Howmany:One
Next:Holborn & St Pancras and Hampstead & Highgate[1]
Region:England
County:County of London

St. Pancras North 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. It was created in 1885 and abolished in 1983 with the area becoming part of the new constituency of Holborn and St Pancras.

Boundaries

1918–1950: The Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras wards of one and two, and the part of ward number three lying to the north and west of a line running along the middle of Camden Road from a point where that road is intersected by the eastern boundary of the metropolitan borough to the point where that road crosses the Regent's Canal and thence westward along the middle of that canal to the western boundary of Ward number three.

1950–1974: The Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras wards of one, two, three and four.

1974–1983: The London Borough of Camden wards of Camden, Chalk Farm, Gospel Oak, Grafton, Highgate, and St John's.[2]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberPartyNotes
1885Thomas Henry BoltonLiberal
1886Charles Cochrane-BaillieConservativelater Baron Lamington
1890 by-electionThomas Henry BoltonLiberalBolton was re-elected in 1892 as a Liberal, but later joined the Liberal Unionists
1893?Liberal Unionist Party
1895Edward Robert Pacy MoonConservative
1906Willoughby DickinsonLiberallater 1st Baron Dickinson
1918John LordenCoalition Conservative
1922Conservative
1923James MarleyLabour
1924Ian FraserConservative Party
1929James MarleyLabour
1931Ian FraserConservative Partylater Baron Fraser of Lonsdale
1937 by-electionRobert Grant-FerrisConservative Partylater Baron Harvington
1945George HouseLabour
1949 by-electionKenneth RobinsonLabourMinister of Health 1964–1968
1970Albert StallardLabour
1983constituency abolished: see Holborn & St Pancras

Election results

Elections in the 1890s

Cochrane-Baillie was elevated to the peerage as Lord Lamington.

Elections in the 1970s

References

  1. Web site: 'St Pancras North', Feb 1974 – May 1983. ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. 21 March 2016.
  2. si. The Parliamentary Constituencies (London Borough of Camden) Order 1973. 1973. 605. 26 February 2023.