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Westminster, St. George's 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 in 1918, taking the majority but not the entirety of its electorate from the abolished St George, Hanover Square constituency. It was abolished in 1950.
Boundaries
The Boundary Commission report of 1918 (Cd. 8756), at Schedule-Part II no. 78, defined the constituency 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.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1918 | Walter Long | Coalition Conservative |
| style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1921 | James Erskine | Anti-Waste League and Independent Conservative 1921-1923, Conservative 1923-1929 |
| style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1929 | Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Bt. | Conservative |
| style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1931 | Alfred Duff Cooper | Conservative |
| style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1945 | Hon. Arthur Howard | Conservative |
| 1950 | constituency abolished | ||