Westminster Abbey (UK Parliament constituency)

It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons by the first past the post system of election.

In 1918 it was to the west of the City of London, to the south of Holborn and St. Pancras and to the east of Kensington and Chelsea.

The objects of the League were to insist upon measures being taken to restore the country to solvency, urge a wholesale reduction of expenditure, fight the battle of local rates and oppose sham Anti-Waste candidates.

The new Conservative candidate Otho Nicholson was challenged by the prominent politician Winston Churchill as a Constitutionalist, the formidable Labour stalwart and future MP Fenner Brockway, and a little-known Liberal.

For the 1950 general election, the seat became the central part of the new constituency of Cities of London and Westminster.

Westminster Abbey in the Parliamentary County of London, 1918-50
A map showing the wards of Westminster Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.
S. Drury-Lowe