Bermondsey West (UK Parliament constituency)
Bermondsey West | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Bermondsey |
Created from | Bermondsey |
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.
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, and was similar in extent to the preceding Bermondsey Division of the parliamentary borough of Southwark.
Its extent covered most of Grange and South Bermondsey wards, together with small sections of Riverside, Chaucer and Livesey wards, in the modern day London Borough of Southwark.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Harold James Glanville | Liberal | |
1922 | Alfred Salter | Labour | |
1923 | Roderick Kedward | Liberal | |
1924 | Alfred Salter | Labour | |
1945 | Richard Sargood | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Election in the 1940s
General Election 5 to 19 July 1945: Bermondsey, West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Richard Sargood | 8,139 | 72.2 | ||
Liberal National | W. Bernard Pemberton | 2,238 | 19.8 | ||
Liberal | Francis Howard Collier | 903 | 8.0 | ||
Majority | 5,901 | 52.4 | |||
Turnout | 17,004 | 66.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Election in the 1930s
General Election 14 November 1935: Bermondsey, West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Dr. Alfred Salter | 12,603 | 62.2 | ||
Liberal National | Frank R.A. Glanville | 7,674 | 37.8 | ||
Majority | 4,929 | 24.4 | |||
Turnout | 30,803 | 65.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 27 October 1931: Bermondsey, West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Dr. Alfred Salter | 10,039 | 48.1 | ||
Conservative | N.H. Bower | 9,948 | 47.7 | ||
Communist | Wal Hannington | 873 | 4.2 | ||
Majority | 91 | 0.4 | |||
Turnout | 32,904 | 63.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Election in the 1920s
General Election 30 May 1929: Bermondsey, West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Alfred Salter | 13,231 | 60.2 | +3.0 | |
Liberal | Leonard Jacques Stein | 4,865 | 22.2 | -20.6 | |
Unionist | Herbert Cecil Butcher | 3,852 | 17.6 | n/a | |
Majority | 8,366 | 38.0 | +23.6 | ||
Turnout | 32,963 | 66.6 | -8.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +11.8 | |||
General Election 29 October 1924: Bermondsey, West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Dr. Alfred Salter | 11,578 | 57.2 | ||
Liberal | Rev. Roderick Morris Kedward | 8,676 | 42.8 | ||
Majority | 2,902 | 14.4 | |||
Turnout | 26,989 | 75.0 | |||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
General Election 6 December 1923: Bermondsey West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Roderick Morris Kedward | 9,186 | 52.5 | +21.6 | |
Labour | Alfred Salter | 8,296 | 47.5 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 888 | 5.0 | 18.7 | ||
Turnout | 26,456 | 66.1 | +1.5 | ||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | +9.4 | |||
General Election 15 November 1922: Bermondsey, West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Dr. Alfred Salter | 7,550 | 44.6 | ||
Liberal | Rev. Roderick Morris Kedward | 5,225 | 30.9 | ||
National Liberal | Charles Richard Scriven | 2,814 | 16.6 | ||
Independent Conservative | Charles Louis Nordon | 1,328 | 7.9 | ||
Majority | 2,325 | 13.7 | |||
Turnout | 26,168 | 64.6 | |||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
Election in the 1910s
General Election 14 December 1918: Bermondsey, West Bermondsey | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Harold James Glanville | 4,260 | 40.6 | ||
Coalition Liberal | Charles Richard Scriven | 2,998 | 28.5 | ||
Labour | Dr. Alfred Salter | 1,956 | 18.6 | ||
NFDSS | Harry T A Becker | 1,294 | 12.3 | ||
Majority | 1,262 | 12.1 | |||
Turnout | 23,100 | 45.5 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
References
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)