Lambeth North (UK Parliament constituency)

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

Lambeth North was a borough 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.

History

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

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

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.

Boundaries

1885 - 1918: The constituency was defined as comprising three wards of the parish of Lambeth: Bishop's, North Marsh and South Marsh.^[1]^[2] The wards were those used to elect members of the Lambeth Vestry, the local authority established by the Metropolis Management Act 1855.^[2]
1918 - 1950: The Representation of the People Act 1918 reorganised constituencies in London, defining them in terms of the wards of the Metropolitan Boroughs which had replaced the vestries in 1900.^[2] The constituency comprised the following parts of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth: Bishop's Ward, Marsh Ward and the part of Prince's Ward that lay "to the north of a line running from Vauxhall Bridge along the middle of Upper Kennington Lane and Lower Kennington Lane to Newington Butts".^[3]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Charles Craufurd Fraser	Conservative
	1892	Francis Moses Coldwells	Liberal
	1895	Sir Henry Morton Stanley	Liberal Unionist
	1900	Frederick William Horner	Conservative
	1906	Horatio Myer	Liberal
	Jan 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

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945 Electorate 20,233
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Russell Strauss	8,677	66.6
	Liberal National	E.W. Bates	2,624	20.1
	Liberal	Capt. Raymond Henry Walton	1,730	13.3
Majority			6,053	46.5
Turnout			20,223	64.4
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Lambeth North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Russell Strauss	10,577	55.4
	Liberal	Edward Terrell	8,521	44.6
Majority			2,056	10.8
Turnout			35,211	54.2
	Labour hold		Swing	-10.8

Lambeth North by-election, 1934
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Russell Strauss	11,281	57.9
	Liberal	J.W. Simpson	4,968	25.5
	National Labour	Sydney Frank Markham	2,927	15.0
	Independent	Mrs. A.S.G. Brown	305	1.6
Majority			6,313	32.4
Turnout			37,064	52.6
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+31.3

Frank Briant

General Election 1931: Lambeth North^[4] Electorate 38,923
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Briant	16,368	65.1	+23.3
	Labour	George Russell Strauss	8,766	34.9	-8.9
Majority			7,602	30.2	32.2
Turnout				64.6	-1.6
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing	+16.1

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Lambeth North^[4] Electorate 38,815
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Russell Strauss	11,264	43.8	+6.7
	Liberal	Frank Briant	10,722	41.8	+4.6
	Conservative	Clyde Tabor Wilson	3,691	14.4	-11.3
Majority			542	2.0	2.1
Turnout				66.2	-0.8
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+1.1

General Election 1924: Lambeth North^[4] Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Briant	7,943	37.2	-11.3
	Labour	George Russell Strauss	7,914	37.1	+15.2
	Conservative	J. Lazarus	5,488	25.7	-3.9
Majority			29	0.1	-18.8
Turnout			31,866	67.0	+7.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	-13.3

General Election 1923: Lambeth North^[4] Electorate 31,146
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Briant	9,036	48.5	+5.4
	Conservative	Ernest Roy Bird	5,509	29.6	-9.5
	Labour	F. Hughes	4,089	21.9	+4.1
Majority			3,527	18.9	+14.9
Turnout				59.8	-2.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	+7.5

General Election 1922: Lambeth North^[4] Electorate 30,320
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Briant	8,132	43.1	-19.2
	Conservative	Ernest Roy Bird	7,362	39.1	+1.4
	Labour	Barbara Bodichon Ayrton-Gould	3,353	17.8	n/a
Majority			770	4.0	-20.6
Turnout				62.2	+21.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	-10.3

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Lambeth North^[4] Electorate 28,777
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Briant	7,326	62.3	+15.8
	Coalition Conservative	Sir William Henry Houghton Gastrell	4,441	37.7	-15.8
Majority			2,885	24.6	31.6
Turnout				40.9	-32.6
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+15.8

Harry Gosling

General Election December 1910: Lambeth North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Henry Houghton Gastrell	2,531	53.5
	Lib-Lab	Harry Gosling	2,202	46.5
Majority			329	7.0
Turnout			6,440	73.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.6

General Election January 1910: Lambeth North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Henry Houghton Gastrell	2,947	55.1
	Liberal	Horatio Myer	2,397	44.9
Majority			550	10.2
Turnout			6,440	83.0
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+7.8

Elections in the 1900s

Horatio Myer

General Election 1906: Lambeth North Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Horatio Myer	2,162	44.1
	Conservative	William Henry Houghton Gastrell	1,904	38.9
	Independent Liberal	Dadabhai Naoroji	733	14.9
	Independent Conservative	Frederick William Horner	108	2.2
Majority			258	5.3
Turnout			6,802	72.1
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+12.6

Naoroji stood as a Lib-Lab candidate.

General Election 1900: Lambeth North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick William Horner	2,677	59.9
	Liberal	Col. C. Ford	1,795	40.1
Majority			882	19.8
Turnout			7,090	63.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+6.1

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1895: Lambeth North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Henry Morton Stanley	2,878	53.8
	Liberal	Charles Philips Trevelyan	2,473	46.2
Majority			405	7.6
Turnout			7,338	72.9
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+5.1

General Election 1892: Lambeth North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Francis Moses Coldwells	2,524	51.3
	Liberal Unionist	Henry Morton Stanley	2,394	48.7
Majority			130	2.6
Turnout			7,229	68.0
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+5.4

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1886: Lambeth North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Craufurd Fraser	2,723	54.1
	Liberal	Walter Wren	2,311	45.9
Majority			412	8.2
Turnout			7,939	63.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	+8.7

General Election 1885: Lambeth North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Craufurd Fraser	2,524	45.4
	Liberal	Walter Wren	2,346	42.2
	Independent Liberal	Sir James Clarke Lawrence, Bt.	692	12.4
Majority			178	3.2
Turnout			7,939	70.1

References

↑ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule. Divisions of Boroughs: Number Names, Contents, and Boundaries of Divisions.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Youngs, Frederic A, Jr. (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. pp. 743, 765. ISBN 0901050679.
↑ Representation of the People Act 1918, Ninth Schedule, Part I: Parliamentary Boroughs
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Craig, Frederick Walter Scott (1969). British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949. Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)

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