Kennington (London County Council constituency)

Kennington
Former constituency for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1889
Abolished	1949
Member(s)	2
Replaced by	Brixton and Vauxhall

Kennington was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1889 and 1949. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name.

Councillors

Year	Name	Party		Name	Party
1889	Horatio Myer		Progressive	Harry Seymour Foster		Moderate
1892	Richard Cecil Grosvenor		Progressive	William Stockbridge		Progressive
1895	Joseph Dixon		Moderate	Thomas Arthur Organ		Progressive
1898	John Benn		Progressive
1901				Stephen Collins		Progressive
1907				Edward Denny		Progressive
1910				Maurice de Forest		Progressive
1913				William Peel		Municipal Reform
1919				Harry Gosling		Labour
1922				Harold Swann		Municipal Reform
1922	Harry Gosling		Labour
1925	George Maurice Beaufoy		Municipal Reform
1928	Charles Gibson		Labour
1931	Henry Studholme		Municipal Reform
1934	Charles Gibson		Labour	Amy Sayle		Labour
1946				Howell John Powell		Labour

Election results

1889 London County Council election: Kennington ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Horatio Myer	2,139
	Moderate	Harry Seymour Foster	1,192
	Independent	Charles William Andrew	1,061
	Progressive	Charles Richard White	918
	Independent	William Stockbridge	211
	Progressive win (new seat)
	Moderate win (new seat)

1892 London County Council election: Kennington ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	William Stockbridge	2,872
	Progressive	Robert Cecil Grosvenor	2,835
	Moderate	F. E. Goodhart	1,580
	Moderate	J. M. Paterson	1,529
	Progressive gain from Moderate		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1895 London County Council election: Kennington ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Moderate	Joseph Dixon	2,337
	Progressive	Thomas Arthur Organ	2,313
	Progressive	R. Temple Rennie	2,297
	Moderate	R. Devereux	2,261
	Independent	G. Palmer	144
	Moderate gain from Progressive		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1898 London County Council election: Kennington ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Thomas Arthur Organ	2,672
	Progressive	John Benn	2,661
	Moderate	Joseph Dixon	2,526
	Moderate	J. R. Cousins	2,471
	Ind. Labour Party	N. P. Palmer	68
	Progressive gain from Moderate		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1901 London County Council election: Kennington ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	John Benn	3,505	32.8	+7.0
	Progressive	Stephen Collins	3,412	32.0	+6.1
	Conservative	Benjamin William Bennett	1,913	17.9	−6.0
	Conservative	Joseph Dixon	1,844	17.3	−7.2
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing	+6.6

1904 London County Council election: Kennington ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Stephen Collins	3,394
	Progressive	John Benn	3,388
	Conservative	Allen Edwards	2,460
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1907 London County Council election: Kennington ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	John Benn	3,424
	Progressive	Edward Denny	3,326
	Municipal Reform	P. F. Budge	2,718
	Municipal Reform	W. Porter	2,666
	Social Democratic Federation	Joseph George Butler	281
	Social Democratic Federation	Fred Knee	235
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1910 London County Council election: Kennington ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	John Benn	3,290
	Progressive	Maurice de Forest	2,828
	Municipal Reform	P. F. Budge	2,421
	Municipal Reform	Cecil Ince	2,317
	Labour	John Gilbert Dale	900
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1913 London County Council election: Kennington ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Sir John Williams Benn	3,517	24.9	−3.1
	Municipal Reform	William Peel	3,371	23.8	+3.2
	Municipal Reform	Victor Sassoon	3,264	23.1	+3.4
	Progressive	W. J. Richardson	2,878	20.3	−3.8
	Labour	John Gilbert Dale	1,121	7.9	+0.2
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing	+3.5
Majority			493	3.5
	Progressive hold		Swing	-3.2
Majority			253	1.8

1919 London County Council election: Kennington ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harry Gosling	2,764	31.6
	Progressive	John Benn	2,743	31.3
	Municipal Reform	Frederick Benjamin Oliphant Hawes	1,685	19.3
	Municipal Reform	David Margesson	1,558	17.8
Majority			1,058	12.0
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

1922 London County Council election: Kennington ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Harold Swann	5,728	31.8	+12.5
	Progressive	John Benn	4,805	26.7	−4.6
	Labour	Harry Gosling	4,275	23.7	−7.9
	Labour	Charles Gibson	3,212	17.8	n/a
Majority			530	3.0	−9.0
	Municipal Reform gain from Labour		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

Kennington by-election, 1922 ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harry Gosling	3,871	42.2
	Municipal Reform	Austin Hudson	3,378	36.9
	Progressive	George Brittain	1,917	20.9
Majority			493	5.3
	Labour gain from Progressive		Swing

1925 London County Council election: Kennington ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	George Maurice Beaufoy	5,715
	Municipal Reform	Harold Swann	5,564
	Labour	Will Lockyer	4,803
	Labour	Francis Bowie	4,796	17.8	n/a
Majority
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1928 London County Council election: Kennington ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Harold Swann	5,153
	Labour	Charles Gibson	5,151
	Municipal Reform	George Maurice Beaufoy	5,139
	Labour	Leonard Matters	5,128
Majority
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1931 London County Council election: Kennington ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Harold Swann	4,731
	Municipal Reform	Henry Studholme	4,716
	Labour	Charles Gibson	4,239
	Labour	W. Hunter	4,186
Majority
	Municipal Reform gain from Labour		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1934 London County Council election: Kennington ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Gibson	5,450
	Labour	Amy Sayle	5,393
	Municipal Reform	Harold Swann	3,950
	Municipal Reform	Henry Studholme	3,940
Majority
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

1937 London County Council election: Kennington ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Gibson	7,303
	Labour	Amy Sayle	7,245
	Municipal Reform	A. Kennedy	5,324
	Municipal Reform	Ingham Clarke	5,055
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1946 London County Council election: Kennington ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Gibson	4,378
	Labour	Howell John Powell	4,343
	Conservative	S. R. Dean	1,502
	Conservative	K. Perona-Wright	1,492
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

References

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10. "L.C.C. Labour Gain. Mr. Gosling Returned For Kennington". The Times . 1 May 1922. p. 20.
11. "LCC Elections: Results declared yesterday". The Times. 7 March 1925.
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13. "LCC Election: Seven seats lost by Labour". The Times. 7 March 1931.
14. "LCC Election: Full results of the poll". The Times. 10 March 1934.
15. "New LCC: Labour's increased majority". The Times. 6 March 1937.
16. "The New LCC: Labour gains in a low poll". The Times. 9 March 1946.