Lambeth North (UK Parliament constituency)

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Lambeth North Borough constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Lambeth North was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Lambeth district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

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

[edit] History

The constituency was created when the two-member Lambeth constituency was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. It was abolished for the 1950 general election when the area was absorbed into the Vauxhall constituency.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Charles Crauford Fraser	Conservative
	1892	Francis Moses Colwells	Liberal
	1895	Sir Henry Morton Stanley	Liberal Unionist
	1900	Frederick William Horner	Conservative
	1906	Horatio Myer	Liberal
	1910	Sir William Henry Houghton Gastrell	Conservative
	1918	Frank Briant	Liberal
	1929	George Strauss	Labour
	1931	Frank Briant	Liberal
	1934 by-election	George Strauss	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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