Bermondsey West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bermondsey West
Borough constituency
Created: 1918
Abolished: 1950
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Bermondsey West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Bermondsey district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency, when it was created in 1918, comprised the wards numbered One, Two, Three and Four of the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey, in the County of London. This was the south-western part of the borough, located in the northern section of the historic county of Surrey from which it was severed for administrative purposes when the County of London was established in 1889.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1918 Harold James Glanville Liberal
1922 Alfred Salter Labour
1923 Roderick Kedward Liberal
1924 Alfred Salter Labour
1945 Richard Sargood Labour
1950 Constituency abolished

[edit] Election results


[edit] References

  • Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page