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St Austell (UK Parliament constituency)

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Number of members
  
One

Replaced by
  
Penryn and Falmouth

St Austell (UK Parliament constituency)

Created from
  
East Cornwall and West Cornwall

St Austell was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of St Austell in Cornwall. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

Boundaries

The Sessional Divisions of Powder East and South, and Ryder, and the civil parishes of Ladock and St Blazey.

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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

  • Liberal: Thomas Charles Reginald Agar-Robartes
  • Unionist:
  • References

    St Austell (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia