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Westminster St George's, originally named St George's, Hanover Square, was a parliamentary constituency in Central London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system of election.
History
The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was then named "St George's, Hanover Square" after the parish of that name. "Hanover Square" was included in the name to distinguish it from the other St George's constituency (in Tower Hamlets).
It was renamed in 1918 as "Westminster St George's", and abolished in 1950.
Boundaries
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From 1885 to 1918, when the constituency was known as St George's Hanover Square, it was defined as the following wards of the City of Westminster:
- Conduit: A small ward running from the top of Regent Street down through Hanover Square, the eastern side of Berkeley Square, and down to the Ritz on Piccadilly.
- Grosvenor: Covering the whole of Mayfair and the northern half of Hyde Park.
- Hamlet of Knightsbridge: The southern half of Hyde Park, together with Knightsbridge and part of the museums area north of South Kensington including the Royal Albert Hall.
- Knightsbridge St. George's: The area of Belgravia.
- Victoria: A very large ward running from Buckingham Palace south to include Victoria Station, and Pimlico.
The constituency also included "the part of the Charing Cross Ward which lies to the south and west of a line drawn from the ward boundary at the centre of Wellington Arch, along the middle of Constitution Hill, thence along the middle of the road to the north and east of the Queen Victoria Memorial, thence along the middle of Spur Road to boundary of St. Margaret Ward". This area included the remainder of the grounds of Buckingham Palace which were not in the Victoria Ward, but contained no electors.