Bermondsey West | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Bermondsey and Rotherhithe |
Replaced by | Bermondsey |
Bermondsey West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Bermondsey district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) 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.
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.
It covered South Bermondsey ward and most of London Bridge & West Bermondsey ward, together with small sections of North Bermondsey, Chaucer and Old Kent Road wards, in the modern day London Borough of Southwark.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Harold Glanville | Liberal | |
1922 | Alfred Salter | Labour | |
1923 | Roderick Kedward | Liberal | |
1924 | Alfred Salter | Labour | |
1945 | Richard Sargood | ||
1950 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Harold Glanville | 4,260 | 40.6 | ||
National Liberal | Charles Richard Scriven* | 2,998 | 28.5 | ||
Labour | Alfred Salter | 1,956 | 18.6 | ||
NFDDSS | Harry Becker | 1,294 | 12.3 | ||
Majority | 1,262 | 12.1 | |||
Turnout | 23,100 | 45.5 | |||
Liberal win (new seat) |
*endorsed by Coalition Government
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alfred Salter | 7,550 | 44.6 | +26.0 | |
Liberal | Roderick Kedward | 5,225 | 30.9 | -9.7 | |
National Liberal | Charles Richard Scriven | 2,814 | 16.6 | -11.9 | |
Ind. Unionist | Charles Louis Nordon | 1,328 | 7.9 | New | |
Majority | 2,325 | 13.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 26,168 | 64.6 | +19.1 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +17.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Roderick Kedward | 9,186 | 52.5 | +21.6 | |
Labour | Alfred Salter | 8,298 | 47.5 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 888 | 5.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 26,456 | 66.1 | +1.5 | ||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | +9.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Alfred Salter | 11,578 | 57.2 | +9.7 | |
Liberal | Roderick Kedward | 8,676 | 42.8 | -9.7 | |
Majority | 2,902 | 14.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 26,989 | 75.0 | +8.9 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +9.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Alfred Salter | 13,231 | 60.2 | +3.0 | |
Liberal | Leonard Stein | 4,865 | 22.2 | -20.6 | |
Unionist | Herbert Cecil Butcher | 3,852 | 17.6 | New | |
Majority | 8,366 | 38.0 | +23.6 | ||
Turnout | 32,963 | 66.6 | -8.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +11.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alfred Salter | 10,039 | 48.1 | -12.1 | |
Conservative | Norman Bower | 9,948 | 47.7 | +30.1 | |
Communist | Wal Hannington | 873 | 4.2 | New | |
Majority | 91 | 0.4 | -37.6 | ||
Turnout | 32,904 | 63.4 | -3.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -21.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alfred Salter | 12,603 | 62.2 | +14.1 | |
National Liberal | Francis Rainault Abbott Glanville | 7,674 | 37.8 | -9.9 | |
Majority | 4,929 | 24.4 | +24.0 | ||
Turnout | 30,803 | 65.8 | +2.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Sargood | 8,139 | 72.2 | +10.0 | |
National Liberal | W. Bernard Pemberton | 2,238 | 19.8 | -18.0 | |
Liberal | Francis Howard Collier | 903 | 8.0 | New | |
Majority | 5,901 | 52.4 | +28.0 | ||
Turnout | 17,004 | 66.3 | +0.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +14.0 | |||
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