Lambeth North (UK Parliament constituency)

Lambeth North
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
Lambeth North in London 1885-1918
Lambeth North in London 1918-50
County	Greater London
1885–1950
Seats	One
Created from	Lambeth
Replaced by	Vauxhall

Lambeth North was a borough constituency centred on the Lambeth district of South 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 two-member Lambeth constituency was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. It was abolished for the 1950 general election when the area was absorbed into the Vauxhall constituency.

Boundaries

• 1885 - 1918: The constituency was defined as comprising three wards of the parish of Lambeth: Bishop's, North Marsh and South Marsh. ^{[1] [2]} The wards were those used to elect members of the Lambeth Vestry, the local authority established by the Metropolis Management Act 1855. ^[2]
• 1918 - 1950: The Representation of the People Act 1918 reorganised constituencies in London, defining them in terms of the wards of the Metropolitan Boroughs which had replaced the vestries in 1900. ^[2] The constituency comprised the following parts of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth: Bishop's Ward, Marsh Ward and the part of Prince's Ward that lay "to the north of a line running from Vauxhall Bridge along the middle of Upper Kennington Lane and Lower Kennington Lane to Newington Butts". ^[3]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Charles Craufurd Fraser	Conservative
	1892	Francis Coldwells	Liberal
	1895	Sir Henry Morton Stanley	Liberal Unionist
	1900	Frederick William Horner	Conservative
	1906	Horatio Myer	Liberal
	Jan 1910	Sir William Houghton-Gastrell	Conservative
	1918	Frank Briant	Liberal
	1929	George Strauss	Labour
	1931	Frank Briant	Liberal
	1934 by-election	George Strauss	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

Walter Wren

General election 1885: Lambeth North ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Fraser	2,524	45.4
	Liberal	Walter Wren	2,346	42.2
	Independent Liberal	James Lawrence	692	12.4
Majority			178	3.2
Turnout			5,562	70.1
Registered electors			7,939
	Conservative win (new seat)

General election 1886: Lambeth North ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Fraser	2,723	54.1	+8.7
	Liberal	Walter Wren	2,311	45.9	+3.7
Majority			412	8.2	+5.0
Turnout			5,034	63.4	−6.7
Registered electors			7,939
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.5

Elections in the 1890s

Henry Stanley

General election 1892: Lambeth North ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Francis Coldwells	2,524	51.3	+5.4
	Liberal Unionist	Henry Morton Stanley	2,394	48.7	−5.4
Majority			130	2.6	N/A
Turnout			4,918	68.0	+4.6
Registered electors			7,229
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+5.4

Charles Trevelyan

General election 1895: Lambeth North ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Henry Morton Stanley	2,878	53.8	+5.1
	Liberal	Charles Trevelyan	2,473	46.2	−5.1
Majority			405	7.6	N/A
Turnout			5,351	72.9	+4.9
Registered electors			7,338
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+5.1

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Lambeth North ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fred Horner	2,677	59.9	+6.1
	Liberal	Charles Ford	1,795	40.1	−6.1
Majority			882	19.8	+12.2
Turnout			4,472	63.1	−9.8
Registered electors			7,090
	Conservative hold		Swing	+6.1

Dadabhai Naoroji

General election 1906: Lambeth North ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Horatio Myer	2,162	44.1	+4.0
	Conservative	William Houghton-Gastrell	1,904	38.8	−21.1
	London Liberal and Radical Union	Dadabhai Naoroji	733	14.9	New
	Ind. Conservative	Fred Horner	108	2.2	New
Majority			258	5.3	N/A
Turnout			4,907	72.1	+9.0
Registered electors			6,802
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+12.6

Elections in the 1910s

Horatio Myer

General election January 1910: Lambeth North ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Houghton-Gastrell	2,947	55.1	+16.3
	Liberal	Horatio Myer	2,397	44.9	+0.8
Majority			550	10.2	N/A
Turnout			5,344	83.0	+10.9
Registered electors			6,440
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+7.8

Harry Gosling

General election December 1910: Lambeth North ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Houghton-Gastrell	2,531	53.5	−1.6
	Lib-Lab	Harry Gosling	2,202	46.5	+1.6
Majority			329	7.0	−3.2
Turnout			4,733	73.5	−9.5
Registered electors			6,440
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.6

General election 1918: Lambeth North ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Briant	7,326	62.3	+15.8
C	Unionist	William Houghton-Gastrell	4,441	37.7	−15.8
Majority			2,885	24.6	N/A
Turnout			11,767	40.9	−32.6
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+15.8
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Lambeth North ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Briant	8,132	43.1	−19.2
	Unionist	Ernest Roy Bird	7,362	39.1	+1.4
	Labour	Barbara Ayrton-Gould	3,353	17.8	New
Majority			770	4.0	−20.6
Turnout			18,847	62.2	+21.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	-10.3

General election 1923: Lambeth North ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Briant	9,036	48.5	+5.4
	Unionist	Ernest Roy Bird	5,509	29.6	−9.5
	Labour	Fred Hughes	4,089	21.9	+4.1
Majority			3,527	18.9	+14.9
Turnout			18,634	59.8	−2.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	+7.5

General election 1924: Lambeth North ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Briant	7,943	37.2	−11.3
	Labour	George Strauss	7,914	37.1	+15.2
	Unionist	Jack Lazarus	5,488	25.7	−3.9
Majority			29	0.1	−18.8
Turnout			21,345	67.0	+7.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	-13.3

General election 1929: Lambeth North ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Strauss	11,264	43.8	+6.7
	Liberal	Frank Briant	10,722	41.8	+4.6
	Unionist	Clyde Tabor Wilson	3,691	14.4	−11.3
Majority			542	2.0	N/A
Turnout			25,677	66.2	−0.8
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+1.1

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Lambeth North ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Briant	16,368	65.1	+23.3
	Labour	George Strauss	8,766	34.9	−8.9
Majority			7,602	30.2	N/A
Turnout			25,134	64.6	−1.6
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing	+16.1

1934 Lambeth North by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Strauss	11,281	57.9	+23.0
	Liberal	J.W. Simpson	4,968	25.5	−39.6
	National Labour	Frank Markham	2,927	15.0	New
	Independent	A.S.G. Brown	305	1.6	New
Majority			6,313	32.4	N/A
Turnout			19,481	52.6	−12.0
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+31.3

General election 1935: Lambeth North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Strauss	10,577	55.4	+20.5
	Liberal	Edward Terrell	8,521	44.6	−20.5
Majority			2,056	10.8	N/A
Turnout			19,098	54.2	−10.4
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	-10.8

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Lambeth North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Strauss	8,677	66.6	+11.2
	National Liberal	Eric William Bales	2,624	20.1	New
	Liberal	Raymond Henry Walton	1,730	13.3	−31.3
Majority			6,053	46.5	+35.7
Turnout			13,031	64.4	+10.2
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule. Divisions of Boroughs: Number Names, Contents, and Boundaries of Divisions.
2. Youngs, Frederic A Jr. (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. pp. 743, 765. ISBN   0901050679.
3. Representation of the People Act 1918, Ninth Schedule, Part I: Parliamentary Boroughs
4. Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN   9781349022984.
5. Craig, Frederick Walter Scott (1969). British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949. Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN   0-900178-06-X.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)