Holborn and St Pancras South (UK Parliament constituency)

Holborn and St Pancras South
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons

Holborn and St Pancras South in the Parliamentary County of London, showing boundaries used from 1950 to 1974.
County 1950–1965: County of London
1965–1983: Greater London
19501983
Number of members One
Replaced by Holborn & St Pancras
Created from Holborn, St Pancras South East and St Pancras South West

Holborn and St Pancras South was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holborn district of Central 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 voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Holborn and St Pancras.

Boundaries

1950-1974: The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn; and wards five, six, seven and eight of the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras.

1974-1983: The London Borough of Camden wards of Bloomsbury, Euston, Holborn, King's Cross, Regent's Park, and St Pancras.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1950 Santo Jeger Labour
1953 by-election Lena Jeger Labour
1959 Geoffrey Johnson Smith Conservative
1964 Lena Jeger Labour
1979 Frank Dobson Labour
1983 constituency abolished: see Holborn and St Pancras

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Holborn and St. Pancras South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Santo Wayburn Jeger 19,223 48.51
Conservative Peter John Feilding Chapman-Walker 17,993 45.41
Liberal Hilda Mary Adela Buckmaster 2,411 6.08
Majority 1,230 3.10
Turnout 72.10
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1951: Holborn and St. Pancras South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Santo Wayburn Jeger 20,332 50.18
Conservative Louis Halle Gluckstein 18,573 45.84
Liberal Isaac Joseph Hyam 1,616 3.99
Majority 1,759 4.34
Turnout 73.70
Labour hold Swing
Holborn and St Pancras South by-election, 1953
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lena May Jeger
Conservative
Majority
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1955: Holborn and St. Pancras South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lena May Jeger 17,126 49.62
Conservative William Timothy Donovan 16,195 46.92
Liberal Isaac Joseph Hyam 1,193 3.46
Majority 931 2.70
Turnout 67.30
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1959: Holborn and St. Pancras South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Geoffrey Johnson Smith 17,065 50.98
Labour Lena May Jeger 16,409 49.02
Majority 656 1.96
Turnout 69.01
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Holborn and St. Pancras South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lena May Jeger 15,873 54.33
Conservative Geoffrey Johnson Smith 13,117 44.90
Independent Ali Mohammad Bongo Abbas 226 0.77
Majority 2,756 9.43
Turnout 67.52
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
General Election 1966: Holborn and St. Pancras South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lena May Jeger 16,128 59.49
Conservative Julian Michael Edmund Byng 10,982 40.51
Majority 5,146 19.98
Turnout 65.54
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Holborn and St. Pancras South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lena May Jeger 12,448 55.15
Conservative Julian Michael Edmund Byng 10,125 44.85
Majority 2,323 10.29
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
General Election February 1974: Holborn and St. Pancras South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lena May Jeger 12,414 49.31
Conservative Robert Frederick James Parsons 8,223 32.54
Liberal Thomas Hibbert 4,632 18.33
Majority 4,191 16.59
Turnout 64.81
Labour hold Swing
General Election October 1974: Holborn and St. Pancras South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lena May Jeger 11,790 55.94
Conservative Robert Frederick James Parsons 6,349 30.12
Liberal Frederick Michael John Lee 2,938 13.94
Majority 5,441 25.81
Turnout 53.81
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1979: Holborn and St. Pancras South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank Gordon Dobson 12,026 49.31
Conservative Simon Robert Key 9,703 39.79
Liberal Thomas Hibbert 2,190 8.98
National Front F Theobald 334 1.37
Workers Revolutionary P Farrell 134 0.55
Majority 2,323 9.53
Turnout 60.40
Labour hold Swing

References