| Barnet | |
|---|---|
| Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1945–February 1974 | |
| Seats | one |
| Created from | St Albans |
| Replaced by | Chipping Barnet and South Hertfordshire |
Barnet was a parliamentary constituency in what is now the London Borough of Barnet, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944 set up Boundaries Commissions to carry out periodic reviews of the distribution of parliamentary constituencies. It also authorised an initial review to subdivide abnormally large constituencies (those exceeding an electorate of 100,000) in time for the 1945 election. [1] This was implemented by the Redistribution of Seats Order 1945 under which Hertfordshire was allocated an additional seat. As a consequence, the new County Constituency of Barnet was formed from the St Albans constituency, comprising the Urban Districts of Barnet and East Barnet, and the Rural District of Elstree. [2]
For the 1950 general election, the Rural District of Hatfield was also added from St Albans, but from the 1955 general election, this was transferred back out to the Hertford constituency. [2]
In 1965 the Barnet and East Barnet urban districts were transferred to Greater London, becoming part of the London Borough of Barnet, while Elstree Rural District remained part of Hertfordshire. This did not affect parliamentary boundaries for nine years, however.
When seats were next redistributed, with effect from the February 1974 general election, the Greater London parts of the old constituency moved to the new Borough Constituency of Chipping Barnet. The Elstree Rural District was transferred to the new County Constituency of South Hertfordshire. [3]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Stephen Taylor | Labour | |
| 1950 | Reginald Maudling | Conservative | |
| Feb 1974 | constituency abolished | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Stephen Taylor | 17,764 | 45.15 | ||
| Conservative | A.E.J. Clark | 17,082 | 43.42 | ||
| Liberal | Jean Henderson | 4,495 | 11.43 | ||
| Majority | 682 | 1.73 | |||
| Turnout | 39,341 | 73.76 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Reginald Maudling | 32,953 | 53.31 | +9.9 | |
| Labour | Stephen Taylor | 22,419 | 36.27 | −8.8 | |
| Liberal | William Herbert Jones | 6,441 | 10.42 | −1.0 | |
| Majority | 10,534 | 17.04 | |||
| Turnout | 61,813 | 87.45 | |||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +9.4 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Reginald Maudling | 35,527 | 56.97 | ||
| Labour Co-op | Cyril Rawlett Fenton | 22,375 | 35.88 | ||
| Liberal | William Herbert Jones | 4,463 | 7.22 | ||
| Majority | 13,152 | 21.09 | |||
| Turnout | 62,365 | 85.89 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Reginald Maudling | 30,299 | 60.76 | ||
| Labour | Sydney Hyam | 19,570 | 39.24 | ||
| Majority | 10,729 | 21.52 | |||
| Turnout | 49,869 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Reginald Maudling | 33,136 | 62.67 | ||
| Labour | Reginald M Prideaux | 19,737 | 37.33 | ||
| Majority | 13,399 | 25.34 | |||
| Turnout | 52,873 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Reginald Maudling | 25,537 | 48.43 | ||
| Labour | David H. P. Levy | 17,024 | 32.28 | ||
| Liberal | Hugh Russell Tinker | 10,172 | 19.29 | New | |
| Majority | 8,513 | 16.15 | |||
| Turnout | 52,733 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Reginald Maudling | 24,833 | 47.1 | −1.3 | |
| Labour | Geoffrey Hickman | 19,347 | 36.7 | +4.4 | |
| Liberal | Hugh Russell Tinker | 8,539 | 16.2 | −3.1 | |
| Majority | 5,486 | 10.4 | −5.7 | ||
| Turnout | 52,719 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Reginald Maudling | 26,845 | 52.29 | ||
| Labour | Joan E. M. Baker | 18,166 | 35.38 | ||
| Liberal | John D. O. Henchley | 6,329 | 12.33 | ||
| Majority | 8,679 | 16.91 | |||
| Turnout | 51,340 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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