Feltham (UK Parliament constituency)

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Feltham
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Feltham1955Constituency.svg
The Feltham seat in Middlesex: its boundaries during the seat's existence.
1955–February 1974
Created from Heston and Isleworth (part of) and Spelthorne (part of)
Replaced by Feltham and Heston
Map that gives each named seat and any constant electoral success for national (Westminster) elections for Middlesex, 1955 to 1974. Final Middlesex constituencies (1955-74).svg
Map that gives each named seat and any constant electoral success for national (Westminster) elections for Middlesex, 1955 to 1974.

Feltham was a constituency, between 1955 and 1974, of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was used for five general elections and at each election returned the candidate of the Labour Party.

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Boundaries

Components
19551974: The Urban District of Feltham (Feltham, Bedfont and Hanworth), and the Borough of Heston and Isleworth wards of Cranford and Hounslow Heath (as to "Cranford" being the more populous eastern half of former parish).

In local government terms the area became the western parts of the London Borough of Hounslow due to the creation of Greater London on 1 April 1965 and formally recited as such ward-by-ward in legislation of 1970. [1]

Geographic context

The constituency was named after Feltham, a late-19th century small town in the west of the administrative county of Middlesex a county abolished on the further growth of London in 1965. Its areas spread up to 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south and south-east of Heathrow Airport, on a terrain which is near-flat and immediately before the seat's creation rich in market gardening however stony, gravel-rich soil of low agricultural value covered the north and east towards Hounslow Heath. [2] During the seat's existence major industries included gravel works, railway works, aircraft maintenance, repairs and airport ancillary industries, motor sales and repairs, haulage, distribution and small-to-medium scale parts assembly and manufacture.

Predecessor seats

Before 1955 the Urban District of Feltham, in its latter years taking in Feltham, Hanworth and Bedfont, were in the Spelthorne constituency created in 1918; Cranford and Hounslow West (Hounslow Heath) were parts of the Heston and Isleworth constituency, created in 1945.

Successor seat

In the 1974 redistribution the seat was abolished to become the core of the new Feltham and Heston constituency, which added Heston to the north-east and most of the centre of the larger town of Hounslow to the east.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1955 Albert Hunter Labour
1966 Russell Kerr Labour
Feb 1974 constituency abolished

The area elected one MP as it post-dated the abolition of the last multi-member constituencies in 1950.

Elections

Results of former UK House of Commons seat Feltham (created 1955, abolished 1974). Feltham constituency results.svg
Results of former UK House of Commons seat Feltham (created 1955, abolished 1974).

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1955: Feltham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Albert Hunter 21,521 54.2
Conservative James A Erskine-Shaw18,17145.8
Majority3,3508.4
Turnout 39,69278.4
Registered electors 50,650
Labour win (new seat)
General election 1959: Feltham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Albert Hunter 20,320 47.3 -6.9
Conservative James Brian W Turner18,07042.1-3.7
Liberal Louis Alfred De Pinna4,53310.6New
Majority2,2505.2-3.2
Turnout 42,92380.4+2.0
Registered electors 53,417
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Feltham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Albert Hunter 20,733 49.6 +2.3
Conservative James Brian W Turner14,92735.7-6.4
Liberal Robert Roberts6,14114.7+4.1
Majority5,80613.9+8.7
Turnout 41,80177.2-3.2
Registered electors 54,147
Labour hold Swing
General election 1966: Feltham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Russell Kerr 22,389 54.0 +4.4
Conservative Barbara L Wallis13,93233.5-2.2
Liberal William G Crauford5,20612.5-2.2
Majority8,45720.5+6.6
Turnout 41,52777.3+0.1
Registered electors 53,697
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Feltham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Russell Kerr 21,561 52.5 -1.5
Conservative Barbara L Wallis16,00638.9+5.4
Liberal Geoffrey Roy King3,5368.6-3.9
Majority5,55513.6-6.9
Turnout 41,10368.2-9.1
Registered electors 60,273
Labour hold Swing

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References

Specific
  1. Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1970 (S.I. 1970 number 1674) Schedule 1 at page 5456 (or 13 of 76) and as to new definition in Schedule 2
  2. Cranfield University National Soil Resources Institute