Worthing (UK Parliament constituency)

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Worthing Borough constituency
Created:	1945
Abolished:	1987
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Worthing was a parliamentary constituency in West Sussex, centred on the town of Worthing. 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Elections 5 References

[edit] History

The constituemcy was created for the 1945 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election. Its territory was then divided between the new constituencies of Worthing West and East Worthing and Shoreham.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1945	Sir Otho Prior-Palmer	Conservative
	1964	Terence Higgins	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished: see Worthing West and East Worthing & Shoreham

[edit] Elections

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.