Bermondsey West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Bermondsey district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament 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
Bermondsey West within London
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.
Its extent covered most of Grange and South Bermondsey wards, together with small sections of Riverside, Chaucer and Livesey wards, in the modern day London Borough of Southwark.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Election in the 1910s
Harold Glanville
General election 1918: Bermondsey West | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Liberal | Harold Glanville | 4,260 | 40.6 | |
| | Coalition Liberal | | 2,998 | 28.5 | |
| | Labour | Alfred Salter | 1,956 | 18.6 | |
| | NFDDSS | Harry Becker | 1,294 | 12.3 | |
| Majority | 1,262 | 12.1 | |
| Turnout | 23,100 | 45.5 | |
| | Liberal win (new seat) |
- endorsed by Coalition Government
Election in the 1920s
General election 1922: Bermondsey West | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Labour | Alfred Salter | 7,550 | 44.6 | +26.0 |
| | Liberal | Roderick Kedward | 5,225 | 30.9 | -9.7 |
| | National Liberal | Charles Richard Scriven | 2,814 | 16.6 | -11.9 |
| | Independent Unionist | Charles Louis Nordon | 1,328 | 7.9 | New |
| Majority | 2,325 | 13.7 | N/A |
| Turnout | 26,168 | 64.6 | +19.1 |
| | Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +17.9 | |
General election 1929: Bermondsey West | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Labour | Alfred Salter | 13,231 | 60.2 | +3.0 |
| | Liberal | Leonard Stein | 4,865 | 22.2 | -20.6 |
| | Unionist | Herbert Cecil Butcher | 3,852 | 17.6 | New |
| Majority | 8,366 | 38.0 | +23.6 |
| Turnout | 32,963 | 66.6 | -8.4 |
| | Labour hold | Swing | +11.8 | |
Election in the 1930s
General election 1935: Bermondsey West | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Labour | Alfred Salter | 12,603 | 62.2 | +14.1 |
| | Liberal National | Francis Rainault Abbott Glanville | 7,674 | 37.8 | -9.9 |
| Majority | 4,929 | 24.4 | +24.0 |
| Turnout | 30,803 | 65.8 | +2.4 |
| | Labour hold | Swing | N/A | |
- 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.[1]
Election in the 1940s
General election 1945: Bermondsey West | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Labour | Richard Sargood | 8,139 | 72.2 | +10.0 |
| | Liberal National | W. Bernard Pemberton | 2,238 | 19.8 | -18.0 |
| | Liberal | Francis Howard Collier | 903 | 8.0 | New |
| Majority | 5,901 | 52.4 | +28.0 |
| Turnout | 17,004 | 66.3 | +0.5 |
| | Labour hold | Swing | +14.0 | |
References
- ^ The Times House of Commons, 1935
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