Number of members one | Created from Middlesex | |
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Replaced by Brentford and Chiswick, Spelthorne and Twickenham | ||
Brentford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Brentford district of west London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.
Boundaries
The local government district of Brentford, the civil parishes of Heston, Isleworth, Norwood, and Twickenham, and part of the civil parish of Hanwell.
The constituency was located in the south-west of the historic county of Middlesex, in what is now West London. It was a division of the county, named after the town of Brentford, on the north (or Middlesex) bank of the River Thames.
The seat was surrounded by the constituencies of Ealing to the north-east, Kingston to the east, Epsom to the south and Uxbridge to the west and north-west.
In 1965 the town of Brentford became part of the London Borough of Hounslow and Greater London.
Elections in the 1910s
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;