St Austell (UK Parliament constituency)

St Austell
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Penryn and Falmouth
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.

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.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Copeland Borlase	Liberal
	1887	William Alexander McArthur	Liberal
	1908	Thomas Agar-Robartes	Liberal
	1915	Sir Francis Layland-Barratt	Liberal
	1918	constituency abolished

Election results

File:William Alexander McArthur.jpg

W.A. McArthur

St Austell by-election, 1887

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Alexander McArthur	3,450
	Liberal Unionist	R B Williams	3,329
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)