Members of Parliament
This is a list of people who were elected to represent these English Universities in the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1918 and 1950. The elections were not held on the polling dates for general elections in the territorial constituencies. The University constituency elections were held over five days, not on the ordinary polling date, so that plural voting graduates could vote in their place of residence and then visit their University to participate in its election.
- Constituency created (1918)
| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher | Coalition Liberal | Sir William Martin Conway | Coalition Conservative | ||
| 1922 | National Liberal | Conservative | ||||
| 1923 | Liberal | |||||
| 1926 by-election | Sir Alfred Hopkinson | Conservative | ||||
| 1929 | Eleanor Florence Rathbone | Independent | ||||
| 1931 | Sir Reginald Henry Craddock | Conservative | ||||
| 1937 by-election | Thomas Edmund Harvey | Independent Progressive | ||||
| 1945 | Kenneth Martin Lindsay | Independent | ||||
| 1946 by-election | Henry George Strauss | Conservative | ||||
| 1950 | University constituencies abolished | |||||
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