Dorking (UK Parliament constituency)

Dorking
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Location of Surrey within England.
County	Surrey
Major settlements	Dorking and Horley
1950–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Mole Valley, Esher and Reigate
Created from	Reigate and Guildford

Dorking was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Dorking and Horley in Surrey. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 – 1983. In the eight elections during its 33-year lifetime it was held by three Conservatives successively.

The seat was created by the Representation of the People Act 1948 and first contested at the 1950 general election. It was abolished prior to the 1983 general election.

The Urban District of Dorking, the Rural District of Dorking and Horley, and in the Rural District of Guildford the civil parishes of Albury, East Clandon, East Horsley, Effingham, Ockham, Ripley, St Martha, Send, Shere, West Clandon, West Horsley, and Winsley.

In 1983 parliamentary boundaries were realigned to those of the local government districts created in 1974: the town of Dorking became part of Mole Valley district, and just over half of the previous area was transferred to the Mole Valley seat for national elections which took in territory to the north from elsewhere. The southern area including Horley transferred to a redrawn East Surrey seat.