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Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)

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Created from
  
West Cornwall

Number of members
  
1

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Replaced by
  
West Cornwall, Falmouth and Camborne

Camborne was a county constituency in Cornwall which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Falmouth and Camborne.

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Between 1885 and 1918 its official name was The North West or Camborne Division of Cornwall, and it was sometimes referred to simply as North West Cornwall.

Boundaries

1885-1918: Part of the Sessional Division of Penwith East, and the civil parishes of Gwennap and St Agnes.

1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Helston, the Urban Districts of Camborne, Hayle, Phillack, and Redruth, the Rural District of Redruth, in the Rural District of East Kerrier the civil parishes of Constantine, Mabe, and Perranarworthal, in the Rural District of Helston the civil parishes of Crowan and Wendron, and in the Rural District of Truro the civil parishes of Kea, Kenwyn Rural, Perranzabuloe, St Agnes, St Allen, and Tregavethan.

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;

  • Liberal: Rt Hon. Francis Dyke Acland
  • Unionist:
  • No Coupon was issued
  • Elections in the 1920s

  • The local Liberal Association was unable to agree on a candidate, but Moreing was recognised as the official candidate by Liberal Party HQ.
  • Elections in the 1940s

    General Election 1939/40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

  • Conservative: Peter Agnew
  • Liberal:
  • Labour: J J H Moses
  • References

    Camborne (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia