| Clapham | |
| Type: | Borough |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | February 1974 |
| Elects Howmany: | one |
| Previous: | East Surrey (one and a half parishes of) |
| Next5: | Battersea South |
| Next: | Streatham and Lambeth Central |
Clapham was a borough constituency in South London which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was created in time for the 1885 general election then altered in periodic national boundary reviews, principally in 1918, and abolished before the February 1974 general election. In its early years (until 1918) the seat was officially named Battersea and Clapham Parliamentary Borough: No. 2 - The Clapham Division.
1885–1918: In 1885 the constituency was established as one of two divisions of a new parliamentary borough to be named Battersea and Clapham, in the northern part of the historic county of Surrey.
The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided the constituency, carved out of a corner of East Surrey, was to consist of:
1918–1950: In the redistribution of 1918 the seat was altered to remove half of the wards which constituted Battersea (into a new seat of Battersea South) and to instead consist of the local government wards of Clapham North and Clapham South, together with a part of Balham. As a matter of strict nomenclature it became a division of Wandsworth 'parliamentary borough'.
In 1965 the area as it then stood for the purposes of local government became almost wholly part of the London Borough of Lambeth and of Greater London.
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | John Moulton | Liberal | ||
| 1886 | John Saunders Gilliat | Conservative | ||
| 1892 | Percy Thornton | Conservative | ||
| 1910 | Denison Faber | Conservative | ||
| 1918 b-e | Harry Greer | Unionist | ||
| 1918 | Sir Arthur du Cros | Unionist | ||
| 1922 b-e | Sir John Leigh | Unionist | ||
| 1945 | John Battley | Labour | ||
| 1950 | Charles Gibson | Labour | ||
| 1959 | Alan Glyn | Conservative | ||
| 1964 | Margaret McKay | Labour | ||
| 1970 | Bill Shelton | Conservative | ||
| 1974 | 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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;