| Rotherhithe |
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Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons |
 Rotherhithe in London 1885–1918 |
 Rotherhithe in London 1918–50 |
| 1885–1950 |
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| Number of members | one |
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| Replaced by | Bermondsey |
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| Created from | Southwark |
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Rotherhithe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Rotherhithe district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election when it became part of the revived Bermondsey constituency.
Boundaries
1885-1918
The Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey wards of St Olave's, St John's, St Thomas's, St Mary, Rotherhithe and St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey.[1]
1918-1950
The Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey wards of St John, St Olave, Bermondsey five and six, and Rotherhithe one, two and three.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Bermondsey historical election results
Elections in the 1880s
Pankhurst
Elections in the 1890s
Glanville
Elections in the 1900s
Hart-Davies
Carr-Gomm
Elections in the 1910s
General election January 1910: Rotherhithe [2][5] | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Liberal | Hubert Carr-Gomm | 4,474 | 55.6 | -4.2 |
| | Conservative | Assheton Pownall | 3,570 | 44.4 | +4.2 |
| Majority | 904 | 11.2 | -8.4 |
| Turnout | 8,044 | 84.3 | +3.7 |
| | Liberal hold | Swing | -4.2 | |
General election December 1910: Rotherhithe [2][5] | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Liberal | Hubert Carr-Gomm | 4,030 | 57.1 | +1.5 |
| | Conservative | Assheton Pownall | 3,026 | 42.9 | -1.5 |
| Majority | 1,004 | 14.2 | +3.0 |
| Turnout | 7,056 | 74.0 | -10.3 |
| | Liberal hold | Swing | +1.5 | |
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: Hubert Carr-Gomm
- Unionist:
General election 1918: Rotherhithe [6] | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| C | Unionist | John Lort-Williams | 5,639 | 50.0 | +7.1 |
| | Liberal | Hubert Carr-Gomm | 3,889 | 34.5 | -22.6 |
| | Labour | Will Godfrey | 1,750 | 15.5 | New |
| Majority | 1,750 | 15.5 | N/A |
| Turnout | 25,088 | 45.1 | -28.9 |
| | Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +14.8 | |
| C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Election in the 1920s
General election 1922: Rotherhithe | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Unionist | John Lort-Williams | 6,749 | 36.5 | -13.5 |
| | Labour | Charles Diamond | 6,703 | 36.3 | +21.8 |
| | Liberal | Hubert Carr-Gomm | 5,034 | 27.2 | -7.3 |
| Majority | 46 | 0.2 | -15.3 |
| Turnout | 29,166 | 63.4 | +18.3 |
| | Unionist hold | Swing | -17.6 | |
Hazleton
General election 1923: Rotherhithe | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Labour | Ben Smith | 9,019 | 48.0 | +11.7 |
| | Unionist | John Lort-Williams | 5,741 | 30.5 | -6.0 |
| | Liberal | Richard Hazleton | 4,035 | 21.5 | -5.7 |
| Majority | 3,278 | 17.5 | N/A |
| Turnout | 29,457 | 63.8 | +0.4 |
| | Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +8.8 | |
General election 1924: Rotherhithe | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Labour | Ben Smith | 12,703 | 60.3 | +12.3 |
| | Unionist | Charles Garfield Lott Du Cann | 8,375 | 39.7 | +9.2 |
| Majority | 4,328 | 20.6 | +3.1 |
| Turnout | 29,906 | 70.5 | +6.7 |
| | Labour hold | Swing | +1.5 | |
General election 1929: Rotherhithe | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Labour | Ben Smith | 14,664 | 61.6 | +1.3 |
| | Unionist | Gurney Braithwaite | 4,594 | 19.3 | -20.4 |
| | Liberal | Dora West | 4,556 | 19.1 | New |
| Majority | 10,070 | 42.3 | +21.7 |
| Turnout | 36,133 | 65.9 | -0.6 |
| | Labour hold | Swing | +10.8 | |
Election in the 1930s
Runge
Election in the 1940s
General election 1945: Rotherhithe | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| | Labour | Ben Smith | 9,741 | 79.1 | +19.4 |
| | Conservative | Norah Runge | 2,577 | 20.9 | -19.4 |
| Majority | 7,164 | 58.2 | +38.8 |
| Turnout | 18,098 | 68.1 | -3.2 |
| | Labour hold | Swing | +19.4 | |
In fiction
The constituency is portrayed in an episode (A Place in the World) of TV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs as the safe Docklands Labour seat of "Rotherhithe East" that is unsuccessfully contested by James Bellamy for the Conservatives in a by-election in 1920. Location scenes were actually shot in Rotherhithe in January 1975 during the making of the episode. (In real life through 1920 Rotherhithe was a Unionist seat.)
References
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
- ^ a b c d e f g h British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, FWS Craig
- ^ a b c d e f The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ^ The Times, 19 November 1946
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