Bermondsey West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bermondsey West
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
19181950
Seatsone
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.

Contents

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

Bermondsey West within London BermondseyWest.png
Bermondsey West within London
The wards of Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough in 1916 Bermondsey Met. B Ward Map 1916.svg
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

ElectionMemberParty
1918 Harold Glanville Liberal
1922 Alfred Salter Labour
1923 Roderick Kedward Liberal
1924 Alfred Salter Labour
1945 Richard Sargood
1950 constituency abolished

Election results

Election in the 1910s

Harold Glanville Harold Glanville.jpg
Harold Glanville
General election 1918: Bermondsey West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Harold Glanville 4,260 40.6
National Liberal Charles Richard Scriven*2,99828.5
Labour Alfred Salter 1,95618.6
NFDDSS Harry Becker 1,29412.3
Majority1,26212.1
Turnout 23,10045.5
Liberal win (new seat)

*endorsed by Coalition Government

Election in the 1920s

General election 1922: Bermondsey West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alfred Salter 7,550 44.6 +26.0
Liberal Roderick Kedward 5,22530.9-9.7
National Liberal Charles Richard Scriven2,81416.6-11.9
Ind. Unionist Charles Louis Nordon1,3287.9New
Majority2,32513.7N/A
Turnout 26,16864.6+19.1
Labour gain from Liberal Swing +17.9
General election 1923: Bermondsey West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Roderick Kedward 9,186 52.5 +21.6
Labour Alfred Salter 8,29847.5+2.9
Majority8885.0N/A
Turnout 26,45666.1+1.5
Liberal gain from Labour Swing +9.4
General election 1924: Bermondsey West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alfred Salter 11,578 57.2 +9.7
Liberal Roderick Kedward 8,67642.8-9.7
Majority2,90214.4N/A
Turnout 26,98975.0+8.9
Labour gain from Liberal Swing +9.7
General election 1929: Bermondsey West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alfred Salter 13,231 60.2 +3.0
Liberal Leonard Stein 4,86522.2-20.6
Unionist Herbert Cecil Butcher3,85217.6New
Majority8,36638.0+23.6
Turnout 32,96366.6-8.4
Labour hold Swing +11.8

Election in the 1930s

General election 1931: Bermondsey West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alfred Salter 10,039 48.1 -12.1
Conservative Norman Bower 9,94847.7+30.1
Communist Wal Hannington 8734.2New
Majority910.4-37.6
Turnout 32,90463.4-3.2
Labour hold Swing -21.6
General election 1935: Bermondsey West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alfred Salter 12,603 62.2 +14.1
National Liberal Francis Rainault Abbott Glanville7,67437.8-9.9
Majority4,92924.4+24.0
Turnout 30,80365.8+2.4
Labour hold Swing N/A

Election in the 1940s

General election 1945: Bermondsey West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Richard Sargood 8,139 72.2 +10.0
National Liberal W. Bernard Pemberton2,23819.8-18.0
Liberal Francis Howard Collier9038.0New
Majority5,90152.4+28.0
Turnout 17,00466.3+0.5
Labour hold Swing +14.0

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References

  1. The Times House of Commons, 1935