Farnham was a constituency covering the south-westernmost and various western parts of Surrey for the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, 1918—1983.
The constituency took its name from the town of Farnham and included other towns and a large agricultural and forested hills area with significant sandy heathland rising up to the north.
Rural Surrey had ten county constituencies in 1950 — Farnham was defined as comprising:[5][n 2] To enable the above, Godalming and Haslemere were transferred from Guildford — Woking, Windlesham and Pirbright were transferred to the new seat of Woking.
The constituency was unaltered at the redistribution of 1974 which coincided with a major local government consolidation, the main local authority approximating to the seat becoming Waverley (district).
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; Surrey portal Politics portal