Holborn and St Pancras South (UK Parliament constituency)

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Holborn and St Pancras South
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
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Holborn & St Pancras South in London 1950-74
County 1950–1965: County of London
1965–1983: Greater London
1950–1983
SeatsOne
Created from Holborn, St Pancras South East and St Pancras South West
Replaced by Holborn & St Pancras

Holborn and St Pancras South was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holborn district of Central 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 voting system.

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The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Holborn and St Pancras.

Boundaries

A map showing the wards of St Pancras Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916. St Pancras Met. B Ward Map 1916.svg
A map showing the wards of St Pancras Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.

1950–1974: The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn, and wards five, six, seven and eight of the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras.

1974–1983: The London Borough of Camden wards of Bloomsbury, Euston, Holborn, King's Cross, Regent's Park, and St Pancras.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1950 Santo Jeger Labour
1953 by-election Lena Jeger Labour
1959 Geoffrey Johnson-Smith Conservative
1964 Lena Jeger Labour
1979 Frank Dobson Labour
1983 constituency abolished: see Holborn and St Pancras

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Holborn and St. Pancras South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Santo Jeger 19,22348.51
Conservative Peter John Feilding Chapman-Walker17,99345.41
Liberal Hilda Buckmaster 2,4116.08
Majority1,2303.10
Turnout 39,62772.10
Labour win (new seat)
General election 1951: Holborn and St. Pancras South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Santo Jeger 20,33250.18
Conservative Louis Gluckstein 18,57345.84
Liberal Isaac Joseph Hyam1,6163.99
Majority1,7594.34
Turnout 40,52173.70
Labour hold Swing
1953 Holborn and St Pancras South by-election [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lena Jeger 15,78452.11+1.93
Conservative William Timothy Donovan13,80845.59-0.25
Liberal Isaac Joseph Hyam6952.29-1.70
Majority1,9766.52+2.18
Turnout 30,287
Labour hold Swing
General election 1955: Holborn and St. Pancras South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lena Jeger 17,12649.62
Conservative William Timothy Donovan16,19546.92
Liberal Isaac Joseph Hyam1,1933.46
Majority9312.70
Turnout 34,51467.30
Labour hold Swing
General election 1959: Holborn and St. Pancras South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Geoffrey Johnson-Smith 17,06550.98
Labour Lena Jeger 16,40949.02
Majority6561.96N/A
Turnout 33,47469.01
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Holborn and St. Pancras South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lena Jeger 15,87354.33
Conservative Geoffrey Johnson-Smith 13,11744.90
IndependentAli Mohammad Bongo Abbas2260.77New
Majority2,7569.43N/A
Turnout 29,21667.52
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
General election 1966: Holborn and St. Pancras South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lena Jeger 16,12859.49
Conservative Julian Michael Edmund Byng10,98240.51
Majority5,14619.98
Turnout 27,11065.54
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Holborn and St. Pancras South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lena Jeger 12,44855.15
Conservative Julian Michael Edmund Byng10,12544.85
Majority2,32310.30
Turnout 22,573
Labour hold Swing
General election February 1974: Holborn and St. Pancras South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lena Jeger 12,41449.31
Conservative Robert Frederick James Parsons8,22332.54
Liberal Thomas Hibbert4,63218.33New
Majority4,19116.77
Turnout 25,26964.81
Labour hold Swing
General election October 1974: Holborn and St. Pancras South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lena Jeger 11,79055.94
Conservative Robert Frederick James Parsons6,34930.12
Liberal Frederick Michael John Lee2,93813.94
Majority5,44125.82
Turnout 21,07753.81
Labour hold Swing +4.6
General election 1979: Holborn and St. Pancras South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Frank Dobson 12,02649.31
Conservative Robert Key 9,70339.79
Liberal Thomas Hibbert2,1908.98
National Front Frank Theobald [2] 3341.37New
Workers Revolutionary Peter Farrell [2] 1340.55New
Majority2,3239.52
Turnout 12,36160.40
Labour hold Swing

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References

  1. ↑ "1953 by Elections". by-elections.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 Election Expenses. Parliament of the United Kingdom. 1980. p. 10. ISBN   0102374805.
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