Bermondsey West (UK Parliament constituency)

Bermondsey West
Bermondsey West
Former borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Seats	one
Created from	Bermondsey and Rotherhithe
Replaced by	Bermondsey

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 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
	1918	Harold Glanville	Liberal
	1922	Alfred Salter	Labour
	1923	Roderick Kedward	Liberal
	1924	Alfred Salter	Labour
	1945	Richard Sargood	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Election in the 1910s

General election 1918: Bermondsey West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Harold Glanville	4,260	40.6
	National Liberal	Charles Richard Scriven*	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
	Ind. 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 1923: Bermondsey West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roderick Kedward	9,186	52.5	+21.6
	Labour	Alfred Salter	8,298	47.5	+2.9
Majority			888	5.0	N/A
Turnout			26,456	66.1	+1.5
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing	+9.4

General election 1924: Bermondsey West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Salter	11,578	57.2	+9.7
	Liberal	Roderick Kedward	8,676	42.8	−9.7
Majority			2,902	14.4	N/A
Turnout			26,989	75.0	+8.9
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+9.7

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 1931: Bermondsey West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Salter	10,039	48.1	−12.1
	Conservative	Norman Bower	9,948	47.7	+30.1
	Communist	Wal Hannington	873	4.2	New
Majority			91	0.4	−37.6
Turnout			32,904	63.4	−3.2
	Labour hold		Swing	-21.6

General election 1935: Bermondsey West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Salter	12,603	62.2	+14.1
	National Liberal	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

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
	National Liberal	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

Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)

[1] The Times House of Commons, 1935

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