Camberwell North (UK Parliament constituency)

Camberwell North
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	County of London
1885–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Peckham
Created from	Lambeth

Camberwell North was a borough constituency located in the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell, in South London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Camberwell North in the Metropolitan Board of Works area, showing boundaries used from 1885 to 1918.

Camberwell North in the Parliamentary County of London from 1918 to 1949.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

1918-1950: The Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell wards of Coburg, Marlborough, North Peckham and St George's.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Richard Strong	Liberal
	1886	John Richards Kelly	Conservative
	1892	Edward Hodson Bayley	Liberal
	1895	Philip Hugh Dalbiac	Conservative
	1900	Thomas James Macnamara	Liberal
	1918	Henry Newton Knights	Unionist
	1922 by-election	Charles George Ammon	Labour
	1931	Arthur Leonard Bateman	Conservative
	1935	Charles Ammon	Labour
	1944 by-election	Cecil Aubrey Gwynne Manning	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Strong	3,137	51.3
	Conservative	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	2,975	48.7
Majority			162
Turnout			8,603	71.0
	Liberal win

General Election 1886: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Richards Kelly	2,717	51.1	2.4
	Liberal	Edward Hodson Bayley	2,352	44.3	-7.0
	Ind. Liberal Unionist	William Pirie Duff	246	4.6
Majority			365	6.8
Turnout			8,603	61.8
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

Election in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Hodson Bayley	4,295	55.5	11.2
	Conservative	John Richards Kelly	3,450	44.5	-6.6
Majority			845	11.0
Turnout			11,133	69.6
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Philip Dalbiac

General Election 1895: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Hugh Dalbiac	4,009	54.5
	Liberal	Edward Hodson Bayley	3,316	45.1
	Independent Liberal	Nelson P. Palmer	32	0.4
Majority			693	9.4
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

T.J. Macnamara

General Election 1900: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas James Macnamara	4,820	55.8	+10.7
	Conservative	Joseph Robert Diggle	3,825	44.2	-10.3
Majority			1,335	15.4
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1906: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas James Macnamara	6,314	64.4	+8.6
	Conservative	Charles H Hoare	3,497	35.6	-8.6
Majority			2,817	28.7	+13.3
	Liberal hold		Swing

Election in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Camberwell North^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas James Macnamara	5,593	55.4	-9.0
	Conservative	Sydney Hoffnung Goldsmid	4,511	44.6	+9.0
Majority			1,082	10.8	-18.0
Turnout				84.8
	Liberal hold		Swing	-9.0

T.J. Macnamara

General Election December 1910: Camberwell North^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas James Macnamara	5,038	55.4	+0.0
	Conservative	Sydney Hoffnung Goldsmid	4,056	44.6	-0.0
Majority			982	10.8	0.0
Turnout			9,094	76.3	-8.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.0

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Liberal: Rt Hon. Thomas James Macnamara
Unionist: Walter Guy Wulf Radford

In 1918 constituency boundaries were changed and a new seat of Camberwell North West was created. Macnamara chose to contest the new seat.

General Election 1918: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Henry Newton Knights	6,010	58.0
	Liberal	George Hearn	2,177	21.0
	Labour	Charles George Ammon	2,175	21.0
Majority			3,833	37.0
Turnout			26,416	39.2
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

Camberwell North by-election, 1922
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles George Ammon	7,854	53.9
	Unionist	Richard James Meller	6,719	46.1
Majority			1,135	7.8
Turnout			28,709	50.8
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 1922: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles George Ammon	8,320	50.8	-13.4
	Unionist	Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan	8,066	49.2	+13.4
Majority			254	1.6	-6.2
Turnout			16,386	56.7	+5.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-13.4

General Election 1923: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles George Ammon	10,620	64.2	+13.4
	Unionist	Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan	5,934	35.8	-13.4
Majority			4,686	28.3	+26.7
Turnout			16,554	56.9	+0.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+13.4

General Election 1924: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles George Ammon	11,300	54.9	-9.3
	Unionist	Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan	7,564	36.7	+0.9
	Liberal	Victor Diederichs Duval	1,729	8.4	+8.4
Majority			3,736	18.1
Turnout			20,593	69.7
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.4

General Election 1929: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles George Ammon	13,051	57.9	+3.0
	Unionist	Leo St. Clare Grondona	5,228	23.2	-13.5
	Liberal	Hugh John Edwards	4,244	18.8	+10.4
Majority			7,823	34.7	+16.6
Turnout			225,23	63.0	-6.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Election in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Leonard Bateman	10,634	51.9
	Labour	Charles George Ammon	9,869	48.1
Majority			765	3.7
Turnout			20,503	58.3
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles George Ammon	11,701	64.7	+16.6
	Conservative	Thomas Ballantyne Martin	5,924	32.8	-9.1
	Independent	Thomas Frederick Rhodes Disher	451	2.5	N/A
Majority			5,777	32.0
Turnout			18,076	55.6	-2.7
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

Labour: Charles George Ammon^[3]
Conservative: Edward Rudolph Mayer

Election in the 1940s

Camberwell North by-election, 1944
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Cecil Aubrey Gwynne Manning	2,655	79.8
	Independent	Thomas Frederick Rhodes Disher	674	20.2
Majority			1,981	59.6
Turnout			29,661	11.2
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1945: Camberwell North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Cecil Aubrey Gwynne Manning	7,186	76.6
	Conservative	Edward Rudolph Mayer	1,394	14.9
	Independent National	Thomas Frederick Rhodes Disher	794	8.5
Majority			5,792	61.7
Turnout			15,506	60.5
	Labour hold		Swing

References

↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)
British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
Debrett’s Illustrated Heraldic and Biographical House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
Debrett’s House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1901
Debrett’s House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1918

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