Hammersmith North (UK Parliament constituency)

Hammersmith North
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	1918–1965: County of London 1965–1983: Greater London
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Hammersmith
Created from	Hammersmith

Hammersmith North was a borough constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith in West 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

The constituency was created when the Hammersmith constituency was divided for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the 1983 general election when it was partly replaced by a new Hammersmith constituency.

In its early years the constituency regularly changed hands between Labour and the Conservatives, but it was a Labour seat from a by-election in 1934 until its abolition in 1983.

Boundaries

1918–1950

Hammersmith North 1918-50

A map showing the wards of Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.

The seat was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918, and was defined as consisting of wards Four, Five, Six and Seven of the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith.^[1]

1950–1955

Hammersmith North 1950-55

The original boundaries were used until the 1950 general election. The wards of the metropolitan borough had been redrawn since 1918, and the seat was redefined by the Representation of the People Act 1948 as comprising six wards: College Park & Latimer, Coningham, Old Oak, Starch Green, White City and Wormholt.^[1]

1955–1974

Hammersmith North 1955-74

The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 allowed for periodic reviews of constituency boundaries. Seats in the two metropolitan boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham were redrawn prior to the 1955 general election. The neighbouring seat of Hammersmith South was abolished and the three wards of Addison, Olympia and St. Stephen's were transferred to the North constituency.^[1]

1974–1983

The last redrawing of the boundaries of the constituency took place prior to the February 1974 election. In 1965 the former metropolitan borough had become part of the larger London Borough of Hammersmith, and the seat was defined as consisting of ten wards of the London Borough, namely: Addison, Broadway, Brook Green, College Park & Old Oak, Coningham, Grove, St. Stephen's, Starch Green, White City and Wormholt.^[1]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Henry Foreman	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Sir Henry Foreman	Conservative
	1923	James Gardner	Labour
	1924	Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett	Conservative
	1926 by-election	James Gardner	Labour
	1931	Mary Pickford	Conservative
	1934 by-election	Fielding West	Labour
	1935	Denis Pritt	Labour
	1940		Independent Labour
	1949		Labour Independent Group
	1950	Frank Tomney	Labour
	1979	Clive Soley	Labour
1983		constituency abolished : see Hammersmith

Election results

Election in the 1910s

General Election 14 December 1918: Hammersmith North Electorate 26,656
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Henry Foreman	5,785	46.5	N/A
	Liberal	Ernest Young	2,542	20.4	N/A
	National Party	James C Walker	2,075	16.7	N/A
	Labour	Christopher Roland Morden	2,048	16.4	N/A
Majority			3,243	26.1	N/A
Turnout				46.7	N/A
	Unionist win (new seat)

Election in the 1920s

General Election 15 November 1922: Hammersmith North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Henry Foreman	8,253	46.3	-0.2
	Labour	James Patrick Gardner	5,350	29.8	+13.4
	Liberal	Frederick L Coysh	4,278	23.9	+3.5
Majority			2,953	16.5	-9.6
Turnout				60.0
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 6 December 1923: Hammersmith North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Patrick Gardner	8,101	41.0	+11.2
	Unionist	Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett	7,256	36.8	-9.5
	Liberal	Frederick L. Coysh	4,374	22.2	-1.7
Majority			845	4.2	20.7
Turnout				63.0	+3.0
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+10.3

General Election 29 October 1924: Hammersmith North ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett	12,925	54.1
	Labour	James Patrick Gardner	10,970	45.9
Majority			1,955	8.2
Turnout			23,895	74.2
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing

Hammersmith North by-election, 28 May 1926:^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Patrick Gardner	13,095	53.4
	Unionist	Samuel Gluckstein	9,484	38.6
	Liberal	George Paton Murfitt	1,974	8.0
Majority			3,611	14.8
Turnout			24,553	72.2
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 30 May 1929: Hammersmith North^[4] Electorate 44,789
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Patrick Gardner	17,601	56.2
	Unionist	Sir (Harold Richard) Marshall Hays	13,744	43.8
Majority			3,857	12.3
Turnout			31,345	70.0	-2.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Election in the 1930s

General Election 27 October 1931: Hammersmith North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hon. Mary Ada Pickford	18,815	59.2
	Labour	James Patrick Gardner	11,838	37.2
	Communist	Edward F. Bramley	697	2.2
	New Party	R. E. N. Braden	431	1.4
Majority			6,977	22.0
Turnout			45,693	69.6
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Hammersmith North: By-election, 24 April 1934
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Fielding Reginald West	14,263	55.7
	Conservative	C. P. Davis	10,747	41.9
	Communist	Edward F. Bramley	614	2.4
Majority			3,516	13.8
Turnout			45,216	56.7
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 14 November 1935: Hammersmith North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Denis Nowel Pritt	15,464	52.8
	Conservative	Norman Adolph Henry Bower	13,830	47.2
Majority			1,634	5.6
Turnout			44,570	65.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Election in the 1940s

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: Denis Nowell Pritt^[5]
Conservative: Leonard Caplan

General Election 5 July 1945: Hammersmith North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Labour	Denis Nowell Pritt	18,845	63.8	n/a
	Conservative	Leonard Caplan	7,516	25.5
	Labour	W.H. Church	3,165	10.7	n/a
Majority			11,329	38.3
Turnout			40,444	73.0
	Independent Labour gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 23 February 1950: Hammersmith North Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Tomney	13,346	39.71
	Conservative	T Gee	10,406	30.96
	Independent Labour	Denis Nowell Pritt	6,457	25.16
	Liberal	Hyman Mark Pick	1,402	4.17
Majority			2,940	8.75
Turnout				81.05
	Labour gain from Independent Labour		Swing

General Election 25 October 1951: Hammersmith North Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Tomney	22,709	66.13
	Conservative	John Melbourne Howard	11,629	33.87
Majority			11,080	32.27
Turnout				81.17
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 26 May 1955: Hammersmith North Electorate 56,677
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Tomney	24,280	61.16
	Conservative	Andrew Bowden	15,417	38.84
Majority			8,863	22.33
Turnout				70.04
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 8 October 1959: Hammersmith North Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Tomney	21,409	59.35
	Conservative	David A. Bagnell	14,662	40.65
Majority			6,747	18.70
Turnout				69.80
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 15 October 1964: Hammersmith North Electorate 46,719
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Tomney	18,547	62.91
	Conservative	TCG Stacey	10,936	37.09
Majority			7,611	25,81
Turnout				63.11
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 31 March 1966: Hammersmith North Electorate 44,397
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Tomney	19,522	68.79
	Conservative	Michael Jon Neubert	8,857	31.21
Majority			10,665	37.58
Turnout				63.92
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 18 June 1970: Hammersmith North Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Tomney	16,145	62.67
	Conservative	Bernard Harold Ian Halley Stewart	9,615	37.33
Majority			6,530	25.35
Turnout				62.04
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 28 February 1974: Hammersmith North Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Tomney	18,970	49.45
	Conservative	RG Beckett	11,929	31.10
	Liberal	Simon Harold John Arthur Knott	7,460	19.45
Majority			7,041	18.36
Turnout				73.72
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 10 October 1974: Hammersmith North Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Tomney	18,061	53.38
	Conservative	RG Beckett	9,939	29.38
	Liberal	Simon Harold John Arthur Knott	5,200	15.37
	Independent	JP McFadden	633	1.87
Majority			8,122	24.01
Turnout				64.60
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 3 May 1979: Hammersmith North Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Clive Stafford Soley	17,241	48.19
	Conservative	J Cripps	13,735	38.39
	Liberal	Simon Harold John Arthur Knott	4,147	11.59
	National Front	R Pearse	462	1.29
	Workers Revolutionary	C Stewart	193	0.54
Majority			3,506	9.80
Turnout				70.40
	Labour hold		Swing

References

Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)

1 2 3 4 Youngs, Frederic A, Jr. (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. pp. 743–746. ISBN 0-901050-67-9.
↑ "General Election 1924 - Full Polling Results". The Times. 13 January 1924. p. i.
↑ "North Hammersmith Result. Labour Majority of 3,611". The Times. 29 May 1926. p. 12.
↑ "General Election 1929 - Results in Detail". The Times. 10 June 1929. p. i.
↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939

Historic constituencies in London

1918	Balham and Tooting Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey West Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Camberwell North Camberwell North West Clapham Dulwich Chelsea City of London Deptford Finsbury Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn Islington East Islington North Islington South Islington West Kennington Kensington North Kensington South Lambeth North Lewisham East Lewisham West Limehouse Mile End Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar South Putney Rotherhithe St Marylebone St Pancras North St Pancras South East St Pancras South West Shoreditch Southwark Central Southwark North Southwark South East Stoke Newington Streatham Wandsworth Central Westminster Abbey Westminster St George's Whitechapel and St George's Woolwich East Woolwich West

1950	Barnet Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick 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	Barnet Barons Court Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick 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

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