Bermondsey West (UK Parliament constituency)

Bermondsey West
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
Bermondsey West within London
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.

Boundaries

The wards of Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough in 1916

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.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1918	Harold Glanville	Liberal	Member for main predecessor seat (1910–1918)
	1922	Alfred Salter	Labour
	1923	Roderick Kedward	Liberal
	1924	Alfred Salter	Labour
	1945	Richard Sargood
1950		constituency abolished: see Bermondsey

Election results

Election in the 1910s

Harold Glanville

General election 1918: Bermondsey West ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Harold Glanville	4,260	40.5
C	National Liberal	Charles Scriven	2,998	28.5
	Labour	Alfred Salter	1,956	18.6
	NFDDSS	Harry Becker	1,294	12.3
Majority			1,262	12.0
Turnout			10,508	45.5
Registered electors			23,100
	Liberal win (new seat)
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Election in the 1920s

General election 1922: Bermondsey West ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Salter	7,550	44.6	+26.0
	Liberal	Roderick Kedward	5,225	30.9	–9.7
	National Liberal	Charles Scriven	2,814	16.6	–11.9
	Ind. Unionist	Charles Nordon	1,328	7.9	New
Majority			2,325	13.7	N/A
Turnout			16,917	64.6	+19.2
Registered electors			26,168
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+17.8

General election 1923: Bermondsey West ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roderick Kedward	9,186	52.5	+21.7
	Labour	Alfred Salter	8,298	47.5	+2.8
Majority			888	5.1	N/A
Turnout			17,484	66.1	+1.4
Registered electors			26,456
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing	+9.4

General election 1924: Bermondsey West ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Salter	11,578	57.2	+9.7
	Liberal	Roderick Kedward	8,676	42.8	–9.7
Majority			2,902	14.3	N/A
Turnout			20,254	75.0	+9.0
Registered electors			26,989
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+9.7

General election 1929: Bermondsey West ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Salter	13,231	60.3	+3.1
	Liberal	Leonard Stein	4,865	22.2	–20.7
	Unionist	Herbert Butcher	3,852	17.6	New
Majority			8,366	38.0	+23.8
Turnout			21,948	66.6	–8.5
Registered electors			32,963
	Labour hold		Swing	+11.9

Election in the 1930s

General election 1931: Bermondsey West ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Salter	10,039	48.1	–12.2
	Conservative	Norman Bower	9,948	47.7	+30.1
	Communist	Wal Hannington	873	4.2	New
Majority			91	0.4	–37.7
Turnout			20,860	63.4	–3.2
Registered electors			32,904
	Labour hold		Swing	–21.1

General election 1935: Bermondsey West ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Salter	12,603	62.2	+14.0
	National Liberal	Francis Glanville	7,674	37.8	–9.8
Majority			4,929	24.3	+23.9
Turnout			20,277	65.8	+2.4
Registered electors			30,803
	Labour hold		Swing	+11.9

• Glanville was a son of the former MP Harold Glanville. Conservative candidate Francis Howard Collier withdrew when Glanville gave an undertaking to support the National Government. ^[2]

Election in the 1940s

General election 1945: Bermondsey West ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Sargood	8,139	72.2	+10.0
	National Liberal	W. Bernard Pemberton	2,238	19.8	–18.0
	Liberal	Francis Collier	903	8.0	New
Majority			5,901	52.3	+28.0
Turnout			11,280	66.3	+0.5
Registered electors			17,004
	Labour hold		Swing	+14.0

References

1. Craig, Fred W. S (1969). British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949. Political Reference Publications. ISBN   0900178019 . Retrieved 5 April 2025.
2. The Times House of Commons, 1935

• 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)