Brixton
Formerborough constituency for theHouse of Commons
Brixton in London 1885–1918
County	Greater London
1885–1974 (1974)
Seats	One
Created from	Lambeth
Replaced by	Lambeth Central

Brixton was aparliamentary constituency centred on theBrixton district ofSouth London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to theHouse of Commons of theParliament of the United Kingdom, elected by thefirst-past-the-post system.

The constituency was created for the1885 general election, and abolished for theFebruary 1974 general election, when it was largely replaced by the newLambeth Central constituency.

The constituency was created by theRedistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the existing two-memberParliamentary Borough of Lambeth was divided into four single-member divisions.^[1][2] The seat, formally known asLambeth, Brixton Division, comprised part of thecivil parish ofLambeth, and was defined in terms of thewards used for elections to the parish vestry under theMetropolis Management Act 1855 as follows:

• The parts ofBrixton andStockwell wards to the north of the centres of Acre Lane and Coldharbour Lane
• The part ofVauxhall ward to the east of the centre of Clapham Road.^[1][2]

TheRepresentation of the People Act 1918 redrew constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland. In London, the seats were redefined in terms of the wards of theMetropolitan Boroughs of the County of London, which had been created in 1900. Accordingly, the constituency was defined as consisting of the following areas of theMetropolitan Borough of Lambeth:

• Stockwell ward.
• The part of Brixton ward to the south of a line running from Clapham Road along the middle of Stockwell Park Road, Grove Road, Brixton Road, Mostyn Road, Akerman Road and Lothian Road and across Camberwell New Road to Wyndham Road.
• The part ofHerne Hill Ward to the north of a line running from Coldharbour Lane along the north side of theLondon, Brighton and South Coast Railway toDenmark Hill.
• The part ofTulse Hill to the north and west of a line running along the middle of Brixton Hill from Mill Lane to Water Lane, along the middle of Water Lane to Effra Road, and along the middle of Effra Road to Coldharbour Lane.^[2][3]

The final boundary change was made by theRepresentation of the People Act 1948, and came into effect at the1950 general election. The 1948 Act introduced the term "borough constituency". Due to a population decrease in Lambeth, the number of constituencies in the borough was reduced from four to three. The newLambeth Brixton Borough Constituency was defined as consisting of four wards of the metropolitan borough as they existed at the end of 1947:

• "The Angell, Stockwell, Town Hall, and Vassal wards of the borough of Lambeth"^[2][4]

Local government was completely reorganised inGreater London in 1965, and the metropolitan borough was abolished to be replaced by the largerLondon Borough of Lambeth. However these changes were not reflected in parliamentary boundaries until thegeneral election of 1974. The Brixton constituency was largely replaced by the new seat ofLambeth Central^[2]

Baggallay resigned after being appointed a Metropolitan Police Magistrate, causing a by-election.

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;

• Unionist:Davison Dalziel
• Liberal:

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 and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative:Nigel Colman
• Labour:Marcus Lipton^[7]

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)

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• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1974
• Politics of the London Borough of Lambeth
• History of the London Borough of Lambeth
• Brixton
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• 1974 disestablishments in England

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