Holborn and St Pancras South (UK Parliament constituency)

Template:Infobox UK constituency main 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.

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

File: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

Election		Member	Party
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1950	Santo Jeger	Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1953 by-election	Lena Jeger	Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1959	Geoffrey Johnson-Smith	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1964	Lena Jeger	Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Santo Jeger	19,223	48.51
		Peter John Feilding Chapman-Walker	17,993	45.41
		Hilda Buckmaster	2,411	6.08
Majority			1,230	3.10
Turnout			39,627	72.10
	win (new seat)

General election 1951: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Santo Jeger	20,332	50.18
		Louis Gluckstein	18,573	45.84
		Isaac Joseph Hyam	1,616	3.99
Majority			1,759	4.34
Turnout			40,521	73.70
	hold		Swing

1953 Holborn and St Pancras South by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Lena Jeger	15,784	52.11
		William Timothy Donovan	13,808	45.59
		Isaac Joseph Hyam	695	2.29
Majority			1,976	6.52
Turnout			30,287
	hold		Swing

General election 1955: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Lena Jeger	17,126	49.62
		William Timothy Donovan	16,195	46.92
		Isaac Joseph Hyam	1,193	3.46
Majority			931	2.70
Turnout			34,514	67.30
	hold		Swing

General election 1959: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Geoffrey Johnson-Smith	17,065	50.98
		Lena Jeger	16,409	49.02
Majority			656	1.96
Turnout			33,474	69.01
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Lena Jeger	15,873	54.33
		Geoffrey Johnson-Smith	13,117	44.90
	Independent	Ali Mohammad Bongo Abbas	226	0.77
Majority			2,756	9.43
Turnout			29,216	67.52
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing

General election 1966: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Lena Jeger	16,128	59.49
		Julian Michael Edmund Byng	10,982	40.51
Majority			5,146	19.98
Turnout			27,110	65.54
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Lena Jeger	12,448	55.15
		Julian Michael Edmund Byng	10,125	44.85
Majority			2,323	10.30
Turnout			22,573
	hold		Swing

General election February 1974: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Lena Jeger	12,414	49.31
		Robert Frederick James Parsons	8,223	32.54
		Thomas Hibbert	4,632	18.33
Majority			4,191	16.77
Turnout			25,269	64.81
	hold		Swing

General election October 1974: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Lena Jeger	11,790	55.94
		Robert Frederick James Parsons	6,349	30.12
		Frederick Michael John Lee	2,938	13.94
Majority			5,441	25.82
Turnout			21,077	53.81
	hold		Swing	+4.6

General election 1979: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Frank Dobson	12,026	49.31
		Robert Key	9,703	39.79
		Thomas Hibbert	2,190	8.98
		Frank Theobald	334	1.37
		Peter Farrell	134	0.55
Majority			2,323	9.52
Turnout			12,361	60.40
	hold		Swing