Richmond (Surrey) (UK Parliament constituency)

Richmond
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	1918–1965 Surrey 1965–1983 Greater London
Major settlements	Richmond
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Richmond and Barnes
Created from	Kingston

Not to be confused with the Richmond constituency in Yorkshire.

Richmond was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Richmond, which was in the extreme north of Surrey until 1965 when it was incorporated into the administrative county Greater London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, elected by first past the post, the winner of each election being a Unionist or from the allied Conservative Party. Formally and informally on a local basis Richmond constituency; national publications usually added a reference to Surrey to distinguish Richmond (Yorks) (UK Parliament constituency) (1585–present).

The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 for the 1918 general election. The area had formerly been covered by the northern part of the Kingston division of the Parliamentary county of Surrey.

From April 1965 the constituency formed part of Greater London. It was the eastern half of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The Second Periodical Review of the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England in 1969 formally made "a slight modification in the names to conform with our policy of using the London borough name as a prefix", so that the constituency was formally known as 'Richmond upon Thames, Richmond'. No boundary changes were made.

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