History
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election as a county division called Kingston from part of the East Surrey constituency. It was became a borough constituency at the 1918 general election, when it was renamed as Kingston-upon-Thames.
It was abolished for the 1997 general election. Its territory was then divided between the new constituencies of Kingston and Surbiton and Richmond Park.
The constituency's most high-profile MP was the Conservative Norman Lamont, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1990 to 1993.
Read more about this topic: Kingston-upon-Thames (UK Parliament Constituency)
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