Hammersmith South (UK Parliament constituency)

Hammersmith South
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	County of London
1918–1955
Seats	One
Created from	Hammersmith
Replaced by	Barons Court

Hammersmith South in the Parliamentary County of London 1918-50

Hammersmith South in the Parliamentary County of London 1950-55

A map showing the wards of Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.

Hammersmith South was a borough constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith in west 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.

The constituency was created when the Hammersmith constituency was divided for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the 1955 general election.

Boundaries

1918-1950: The Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith wards numbers one, two and three.

1950-1955: The Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith wards of Addison, Broadway, Brook Green, Grove, Olympia, Ravenscourt, and St Stephen's.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |	1918	William Bull	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color" |	1929		Daniel Chater	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1931	James Cooke	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color" |	1945	William Adams	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color" |	1949 by-election	Thomas Williams	Labour
1955		constituency abolished: see Barons Court

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

United Kingdom general election, 1918

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Sir William James Bull	8,592	65.6	n/a
	Liberal	Thomas Atholl Robertson	2,555	19.5	n/a
	Labour	John Thomas Westcott	1,958	14.9	n/a
Majority			6,037	46.1	n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Conservative win

• endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

Sir William Bull

United Kingdom general election, 1922

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir William James Bull	10,877	63.0	−2.5
	Labour	Wyndham James Albery	6,397	37.0	+22.1
Majority			4,480	26.0	−24.6
Turnout				56.4
	Unionist hold		Swing	-12.3

United Kingdom general election, 1923: Hammersmith South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir William James Bull	8,184	43.4	−19.6
	Labour	Wyndham James Albery	6,974	36.9	−0.1
	Liberal	Ernest Devan Wetton	3,723	19.7	n/a
Majority			1,210	6.5	−19.5
Turnout				61.1	+4.7
	Unionist hold		Swing	-9.7

Christopher Addison

United Kingdom general election, 1924

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir William James Bull	12,679	55.4
	Labour	Rt Hon. Christopher Addison	8,804	38.5
	Liberal	Ernest Devan Wetton	1,393	6.1
Majority			3,875	16.9
Turnout				72.3
	Unionist hold		Swing

United Kingdom general election, 1929: Hammersmith South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Daniel Chater	12,630	43.8	+5.3
	Unionist	Sir John Ferguson	12,218	42.4	−13.0
	Liberal	Capt. J J Davies	3,976	13.8	+7.7
Majority			412	1.4	18.3
Turnout				67.3	−5.0
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+9.1

Elections in the 1930s

United Kingdom general election, 1931

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Douglas Cooke	21,018	71.5	+27.7
	Labour	Daniel Chater	8,390	28.5	−13.9
Majority			12,628	42.9	41.6
Turnout			29,408	68.0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+20.8

United Kingdom general election, 1935

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Douglas Cooke	15,377	62.3
	Labour	William Thomas Adams	9,309	37.7
Majority			6,068	24.6
Turnout			24,686	60.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

United Kingdom general election, 1945: Hammersmith South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Thomas Adams	12,502	58.0
	Conservative	Sir James Douglas Cooke	9,044	42.0
Majority			3,458	16.0
Turnout				65.9
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Hammersmith South by-election, 1949

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Thomas Williams	15,223	52.8
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	13,610	47.2
Majority			1,613	5.6
Turnout				60.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Hammersmith South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Thomas Williams	18,825	51.8
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	16,161	44.4
	Liberal	John Stanton Ritter	1,400	3.8	n/a
Majority			2,664	7.4
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

United Kingdom general election, 1951: Hammersmith South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Thomas Williams	19,273	54.6	+2.8
	Conservative	Robert N E Hinton	16,038	45.4	+1.0
Majority			3,235	9.2	+1.8
Turnout				80.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.9

References

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

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