Chertsey | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Surrey |
1885–1974 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by |
Chertsey & Walton North West Surrey |
Created from | Mid Surrey |
Chertsey (occasionally also recorded as the Surrey North Western/ North Western Division of Surrey) was a county constituency in Surrey which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was formed by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election from part of the Mid Surrey constituency, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.
1885-1918: The Sessional Division of Chertsey, part of the Sessional Division of Guildford, and the civil parish of Frimley.
1918-1950: The Urban Districts of Chertsey, East and West Molesey, Egham, Esher and the Dittons, Walton-upon-Thames, and Weybridge, and the Rural District of Chertsey.
1950-1974: The Urban Districts of Chertsey and Egham, and the Rural District of Bagshot.
This seat stretched from Old Windsor in the north through Egham, Chertsey, Virginia Water, Camberley, Bagshot, Addlestone and Weybridge to Woking, Byfleet, Ripley (in the south) and to the east Hersham and Walton-on-Thames in its earlier form.