Southwark North (UK Parliament constituency)
Appearance
Southwark North | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Southwark West |
Replaced by | Southwark |
Southwark (Br [ˈsʌðɨk])[1] North was a parliamentary constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark, in South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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History
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Southwark constituency.
Boundaries
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The constituency comprised the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark wards of Christchurch, St. Jude, St. Michael and St. Saviour. It covered almost all of Cathedrals ward and the northern part of the Chaucer ward in the modern day London Borough of Southwark.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" | | 1918 | Edward Anthony Strauss | Coalition Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)/meta/color" | | 1922 | National Liberal | |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1923 | Leslie Haden-Guest | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1927 | Edward Anthony Strauss | Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1929 | George Isaacs | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" | | 1931 | Edward Anthony Strauss | National Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1939 by-election | George Isaacs | Labour |
1950 | constituency abolished: see Southwark |
Election results
Election in the 1910s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | 4,254 | 47.1 | n/a | ||
Ind. Unionist | Lt-Col. Sir John Lane Harrington | 2,183 | 24.2 | n/a | |
Labour | George Alfred Isaacs | 2,027 | 22.4 | n/a | |
NFDDSS | George Gregory Gebbett | 573 | 6.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 2,071 | 22.9 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 40.4 | n/a | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a |
- Strauss was endorsed by the Coalition Government.
Election in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Liberal | Edward Anthony Strauss | 7,435 | 54.0 | ||
Labour | Leslie Haden-Guest | 6,323 | 46.0 | ||
Majority | 1,112 | 8.0 | |||
Turnout | 56.1 | +15.7 | |||
National Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leslie Haden-Guest | 7,665 | 51.2 | +5.2 | |
Liberal | Edward Anthony Strauss | 7,303 | 48.8 | −5.2 | |
Majority | 362 | 2.4 | 10.4 | ||
Turnout | 59.7 | +3.6 | |||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +5.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leslie Haden-Guest | 8,115 | 43.8 | ||
Liberal | Edward Anthony Strauss | 7,085 | 38.3 | ||
Unionist | John Jestyn Llewellin | 3,305 | 17.9 | ||
Majority | 1,030 | 5.5 | |||
Turnout | 71.5 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Edward Anthony Strauss | 7,334 | 43.9 | ||
Labour | George Alfred Isaacs | 6,167 | 36.9 | ||
Constitutionalist | Leslie Haden-Guest | 3,215 | 19.2 | ||
Majority | 1,167 | 7.0 | |||
Turnout | 62.8 | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Alfred Isaacs | 9,660 | 45.8 | +8.9 | |
Liberal | Edward Anthony Strauss | 9,228 | 43.8 | −0.1 | |
Unionist | Marcus Reginald Anthony Samuel | 2,198 | 10.4 | −8.8 | |
Majority | 2.0 | 9.0 | |||
Turnout | 65.2 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +4.5 |
Election in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | 13,045 | 64.9 | |||
Labour | George Alfred Isaacs | 7,053 | 35.1 | ||
Majority | 5,992 | 29.8 | 31.8 | ||
Turnout | 63.2 | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | +15.9 |
- After the election, Strauss took the Liberal National whip.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Liberal | Edward Anthony Strauss | 8,086 | 50.2 | ||
Labour | George Alfred Isaacs | 8,007 | 49.8 | ||
Majority | 79 | 0.4 | |||
Turnout | 56.1 | ||||
National Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Alfred Isaacs | 5,815 | 57.4 | +7.6 | |
National Liberal | Alfred H. Henderson-Livesey | 4,322 | 42.6 | −7.6 | |
Majority | 14.8 | 15.2 | |||
Turnout | 38.9 | −17.2 | |||
Labour gain from National Liberal | Swing | +7.6 |
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Alfred Isaacs | 5,943 | 69.0 | ||
National Liberal | Edward Terrell | 2,673 | 31.0 | ||
Majority | 3,270 | 38.0 | |||
Turnout | 61.3 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
- ^ "Southwark", in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World (1952), New York: Columbia University Press.
- ^ British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ^ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949, p49
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig