Dulwich (UK Parliament constituency)

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Dulwich Borough constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1997
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Dulwich is a former borough constituency in the Dulwich area of South London, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. The constituency was abolished by the Boundary Commission in 1997, and most of its former territory now forms part of the Dulwich and West Norwood constituency.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	John Morgan Howard	Conservative
	1887	Sir John Blundell Maple	Conservative
	1903	Frederick Rutherfoord Harris	Conservative
	1906	Andrew Bonar Law	Conservative
	1910	Sir Frederick Hall	Conservative
	1932	Sir Bracewell Smith	Conservative
	1945	Wilfrid Foulston Vernon	Labour
	1951	Robert Christmas Dewar Jenkins	Conservative
	1964	Samuel Charles Silkin	Labour
	1983	Gerald Francis Bowden	Conservative
	1992	Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell	Labour
1997		constituency abolished: see Dulwich & West Norwood

[edit] Election results

1931 General Election: Dulwich
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Frederick Hall	21,752
	Labour	F. Hughes	4,747
	Liberal	Dr C. R. Cooke-Taylor	3,924
Majority			17,005
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

1929 General Election: Dulwich
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Frederick Hall	15,009
	Labour	C. A. Smith	9,309
	Liberal	Dr C. R. Cooke-Taylor	6,442
Majority			5,700
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

In the 1900 general election, Sir John Blundell Maple was elected unopposed.

1895 General Election: Dulwich
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir John Blundell Maple	5,258
	Liberal	C. G. Clarke	2,176
Majority			3,082
	Conservative hold		Swing

1892 General Election: Dulwich
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir John Blundell Maple	5,318
	Liberal	A. Clayden	3,138
Majority			2,180
	Conservative hold		Swing

In the 1886 general election, John Morgan Howard was elected unopposed.

1885 General Election: Dulwich
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Morgan Howard	4,406
	Liberal	G. Collins	2,712
Majority			1,694
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• Dulwich by-election, 1887
• Dulwich by-election, 1903
• Dulwich by-election, 1906
• Dulwich by-election, 1932

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.