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Bermondsey West (UK Parliament 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

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
1918 Harold Glanville Liberal Member for main predecessor seat (1910–1918)
1922 Alfred Salter Labour
1923 Roderick Kedward Liberal
1924 Alfred Salter Labour
1945 Richard Sargood
1950 constituency abolished: see Bermondsey

Election results

Election in the 1910s

Harold Glanville
General election 1918: Bermondsey West[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Harold Glanville 4,260 40.5
C National Liberal Charles Scriven 2,998 28.5
Labour Alfred Salter 1,956 18.6
NFDDSS Harry Becker 1,294 12.3
Majority 1,262 12.0
Turnout 10,508 45.5
Registered electors 23,100
Liberal win (new seat)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Election in the 1920s

General election 1922: Bermondsey West[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alfred Salter 7,550 44.6 +26.0
Liberal Roderick Kedward 5,225 30.9 –9.7
National Liberal Charles Scriven 2,814 16.6 –11.9
Ind. Unionist Charles Nordon 1,328 7.9 New
Majority 2,325 13.7 N/A
Turnout 16,917 64.6 +19.2
Registered electors 26,168
Labour gain from Liberal Swing +17.8
General election 1923: Bermondsey West[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Roderick Kedward 9,186 52.5 +21.7
Labour Alfred Salter 8,298 47.5 +2.8
Majority 888 5.1 N/A
Turnout 17,484 66.1 +1.4
Registered electors 26,456
Liberal gain from Labour Swing +9.4
General election 1924: Bermondsey West[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alfred Salter 11,578 57.2 +9.7
Liberal Roderick Kedward 8,676 42.8 –9.7
Majority 2,902 14.3 N/A
Turnout 20,254 75.0 +9.0
Registered electors 26,989
Labour gain from Liberal Swing +9.7
General election 1929: Bermondsey West[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alfred Salter 13,231 60.3 +3.1
Liberal Leonard Stein 4,865 22.2 –20.7
Unionist Herbert Butcher 3,852 17.6 New
Majority 8,366 38.0 +23.8
Turnout 21,948 66.6 –8.5
Registered electors 32,963
Labour hold Swing +11.9

Election in the 1930s

General election 1931: Bermondsey West[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alfred Salter 10,039 48.1 –12.2
Conservative Norman Bower 9,948 47.7 +30.1
Communist Wal Hannington 873 4.2 New
Majority 91 0.4 –37.7
Turnout 20,860 63.4 –3.2
Registered electors 32,904
Labour hold Swing –21.1
General election 1935: Bermondsey West[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alfred Salter 12,603 62.2 +14.0
National Liberal Francis Glanville 7,674 37.8 –9.8
Majority 4,929 24.3 +23.9
Turnout 20,277 65.8 +2.4
Registered electors 30,803
Labour 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.[2]

Election in the 1940s

General election 1945: Bermondsey West[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Richard Sargood 8,139 72.2 +10.0
National Liberal W. Bernard Pemberton 2,238 19.8 –18.0
Liberal Francis Collier 903 8.0 New
Majority 5,901 52.3 +28.0
Turnout 11,280 66.3 +0.5
Registered electors 17,004
Labour hold Swing +14.0

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Craig, Fred W. S (1969). British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949. Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0900178019. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  2. ^ The Times House of Commons, 1935