Created from Finsbury | Number of members 1 | |
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Replaced by Finsbury, Holborn and St Pancras South | ||
Holborn was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holborn district of Central 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 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Holborn & St Pancras South.
Boundaries
The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of-
1918-1950: The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.
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;