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
1950–1983
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

Election		Member	Party
	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

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)

Historic constituencies in London

1950	Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Streatham Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

1955	Barons Court Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hammersmith North Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Streatham Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

1974	Acton Barking Battersea North Battersea South Beckenham Bermondsey Bethnal Green and Bow Bexleyheath Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Carshalton Chelsea Chingford Chipping Barnet Chislehurst City of London and Westminster South Croydon Central Croydon North East Croydon North West Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich Ealing North Edmonton Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Crayford Feltham and Heston Finchley Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith North Hampstead Harrow Central Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon North Hendon South Holborn and St Pancras South Hornchurch Hornsey Ilford North Ilford South Islington Central Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lambeth Central Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton Mitcham and Morden Newham North East Newham North West Newham South Norwood Orpington Paddington Peckham Putney Ravensbourne Richmond Romford Ruislip-Northwood St Marylebone St Pancras North Sidcup Southall Stepney and Poplar Streatham Surbiton Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford Wimbledon Wood Green Woolwich East Woolwich West