Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)

Westminster was the parliamentary constituency in the Parliament of England to 1707, the Parliament of Great Britain 1707–1800 and the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801. It allocated two members to 1885 and one thereafter.

The constituency was number one known to hold been represented in Parliament in 1545 and continued to equal until the redistribution of seats in 1918. The constituency's almost famous former representatives are John Stuart Mill and Charles James Fox. The near analogous innovative constituency is Cities of London and Westminster.

Boundaries and boundary changes

The constituency was formed in 1545 from part of the county constituency of Middlesex and referred two members of parliament until 1885.

The City of Westminster is a district of Inner London. Its southern boundary is on the north bank of the River Thames. this is the today combined with Marylebone to the north. it is west of the diminutive City of London, fixed with four MPs in 1298, and the north component of Lambeth, created a broad constituency in 1832. It is south-west of Holborn and St. Pancras which in 1832 were both placed in a wider seat named Finsbury and to the east of Kensington and Chelsea which were dealt with similarly in a seat named Chelsea.

In the 1885 redistribution of seats the constituency practically identical to the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster which was created in 1900 was shared into three single-member seats. The south-eastern part, including the traditional heart of Westminster and such important centres of power as the Houses of Parliament and the seat of government in Whitehall, continued to be a constituency called Westminster. By official definition the areas retained were "the Westminster district and Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter"; a seat named Strand was created in the north-east and a seat, St George's, Hanover Square, in the west.

In the 1918 redistribution the three seats were an arrangement of parts or elements in a specific construct figure or combination. to two: Westminster St George's in the west and Westminster Abbey in the east, the latter wholly containing and slightly larger than the 1885–1918 Westminster seat apart from for its Knightsbridge exclave which lay some way off in the west.