St Pancras East (UK Parliament constituency)

St Pancras East
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Number of members	one
Created from	Marylebone

St Pancras East was a parliamentary constituency in the St Pancras district of North London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

History

St Pancras East in London, 1885-1918

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Thomas Gibb	Liberal
	1886	Robert Webster	Conservative
	1899	Sir Thomas Wrightson	Conservative
	1906	Hugh Lea	Liberal
	1910 (Jan)	Joseph Martin	Liberal
	1918 change		Labour
	1918	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: St Pancras East ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Gibb	2,416	52.7
	Conservative	Robert Grant Webster [4]	2,170	47.3
Majority			246	5.4
Turnout			4,586	77.6
Registered electors			5,913
	Liberal win (new seat)

General election 1886: St Pancras East ^{[1] [2]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Grant Webster	2,327	56.0	+8.7
	Liberal	Thomas Gibb	1,826	44.0	-8.7
Majority			501	12.0	N/A
Turnout			4,153	70.2	-7.4
Registered electors			5,913
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+8.7

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: St Pancras East ^{[1] [2]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Grant Webster	2,621	54.6	−1.4
	Liberal	Thomas Gibb	2,180	45.4	+1.4
Majority			441	9.2	−2.8
Turnout			4,801	72.8	+2.6
Registered electors			6,598
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.4

General election 1895: St Pancras East ^{[1] [2] [5]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Grant Webster	2,612	52.9	−1.7
	Liberal	Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe	2,322	47.1	+1.7
Majority			290	5.8	−3.4
Turnout			4,934	70.6	−2.2
Registered electors			6,988
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.7

Webster resigned, causing a by-election.

1899 St Pancras East by-election ^{[1] [2] [5]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Wrightson	2,610	51.9	−1.0
	Liberal	Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe	2,423	48.1	+1.0
Majority			187	3.8	−2.0
Turnout			5,033	70.0	−0.6
Registered electors			7,191
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.0

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: St Pancras East ^{[1] [2] [5]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Wrightson	3,016	58.9	+6.0
	Liberal	John Meir Astbury	2,106	41.1	−6.0
Majority			910	17.8	+12.0
Turnout			5,122	70.7	+0.1
Registered electors			7,248
	Conservative hold		Swing	+6.0

Lea

General election 1906: St Pancras East ^{[1] [2]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hugh Lea	4,208	64.4	+23.3
	Conservative	Thomas Wrightson	2,327	35.6	−23.3
Majority			1,881	28.8	N/A
Turnout			6,535	82.1	+11.4
Registered electors			7,961
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+23.3

Elections in the 1910s

Martin

General election January 1910: St Pancras East ^{[1] [6]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Joseph Martin	4,276	54.4	−10.0
	Conservative	Walter Preston	3,586	45.6	+10.0
Majority			690	8.8	−20.0
Turnout			7,862	82.9	+0.8
Registered electors			9,487
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	−10.0

General election December 1910: St Pancras East ^{[1] [6]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Joseph Martin	3,891	56.0	+1.6
	Conservative	John Hopkins	3,038	43.7	−1.9
	Suffragist	Herbert Jacobs	22	0.3	New
Majority			853	12.3	+3.5
Turnout			6,951	73.3	−9.6
Registered electors			9,487
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	+1.8

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;

• Liberal: Joseph Martin
• Unionist: John Hopkins

References

1. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
2. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
3. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
4. ‘WEBSTER, Robert Grant’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 19 Oct 2017
5. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
6. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)