Bermondsey West (UK Parliament constituency)

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK constituency 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

File: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

Election		Member	Party	Notes
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1918	Harold Glanville	Liberal	Member for main predecessor seat (1910–1918)
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1922	Alfred Salter	Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1923	Roderick Kedward	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1924	Alfred Salter	Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1945	Richard Sargood
1950		constituency abolished: see Bermondsey

Election results

Election in the 1910s

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Harold Glanville

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Election in the 1920s

General election 1918: Bermondsey West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
		Harold Glanville		40.5
		Alfred Salter		18.6
		Harry Becker		12.3
Turnout			10,508	45.5

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General election 1922: Bermondsey West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Roderick Kedward	5,225	30.9
		Charles Scriven	2,814	16.6
		Charles Nordon	1,328	7.9
Majority			2,325	13.7
Turnout			16,917	64.6
Registered electors			26,168
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+17.8

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General election 1923: Bermondsey West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Alfred Salter	8,298	47.5
Majority			888	5.1
Turnout			17,484	66.1
Registered electors			26,456
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+9.4

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General election 1924: Bermondsey West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Roderick Kedward	8,676	42.8
Majority			2,902	14.3
Turnout			20,254	75.0
Registered electors			26,989
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+9.7

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General election 1929: Bermondsey West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Leonard Stein	4,865	22.2
		Herbert Butcher	3,852	17.6
Majority			8,366	38.0
Turnout			21,948	66.6
Registered electors			32,963
	hold		Swing	+11.9

Election in the 1930s

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General election 1931: Bermondsey West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Norman Bower	9,948	47.7
		Wal Hannington	873	4.2
Majority			91	0.4
Turnout			20,860	63.4
Registered electors			32,904
	hold		Swing	–21.1

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General election 1935: Bermondsey West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Francis Glanville	7,674	37.8
Majority			4,929	24.3
Turnout			20,277	65.8
Registered electors			30,803
	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.

Election in the 1940s

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General election 1945: Bermondsey West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		W. Bernard Pemberton	2,238	19.8
		Francis Collier	903	8.0
Majority			5,901	52.3
Turnout			11,280	66.3
Registered electors			17,004
	hold		Swing	+14.0

References

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)