Boundaries
The constituency consisted of the hundreds of Blackheath, Copthorne, Effingham, Elmbridge, Farnham, Godalming, Godley, Woking and Wotton. It was therefore the more extensive and more rural of the two divisions of Surrey established in 1832, although including a number of towns on the south-western fringes of London. Elections were conducted at Guildford; other principal towns in the constituency included Chertsey, Dorking, Epsom, Farnham, Godalming, Haslemere, Walton-on-Thames, Weybridge and Woking. (Guildford was a borough returning Members of Parliament in its own right, but freeholders within the borough boundaries could, nevertheless, vote for the county division if they did not qualify for a vote in the borough.)
On its abolition in 1885, West Surrey was divided between four new single-member constituencies, providing the whole electorate for the North-Western or Chertsey division of Surrey and part of the South-Western or Guildford, Mid or Epsom and South-Eastern or Reigate divisions.
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