Southwark and Bermondsey (UK Parliament constituency)
Southwark and Bermondsey | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Greater London |
1983–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | North Southwark and Bermondsey |
Created from | Bermondsey |
Southwark and Bermondsey 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.
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History
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election and abolished for the 1997 general election. It had a single Member of Parliament throughout its existence, the Liberal Democrat (previously Liberal) Simon Hughes.
Boundaries
The London Borough of Southwark wards of Abbey, Bricklayers, Browning, Burgess, Cathedral, Chaucer, Dockyard, Riverside, and Rotherhithe.
Southwark and Bermondsey consisted of the northern part of the London Borough of Southwark. In 1997 it was largely replaced by the new North Southwark and Bermondsey constituency, with 290 electors moving to the Lewisham Deptford constituency.[1]
Member of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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1983 | Simon Hughes | Liberal | |
1988 | Liberal Democrat | ||
1997 | constituency abolished: see North Southwark and Bermondsey |
Elections
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrat | Simon Hughes | 21,459 | 56.9 | +9.4 | |
Labour Co-op | Richard Balfe | 11,614 | 30.8 | −8.9 | |
Conservative | Andy J. Raca | 3,794 | 10.1 | −2.5 | |
BNP | Stephen J. Tyler | 530 | 1.4 | N/A | |
National Front | Terry S. Blackham | 168 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Dr. Graham H. Barnett | 113 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Communist League | John B. Grogan | 56 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,845 | 26.1 | +18.4 | ||
Turnout | 37,734 | 62.3 | −2.6 | ||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | +9.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Simon Hughes | 17,072 | 47.4 | −2.4 | |
Labour | John David Bryan | 14,293 | 39.7 | +4.8 | |
Conservative | Oliver Heald | 4,522 | 12.6 | −0.4 | |
Communist | Peter Nigel Power | 108 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,779 | 7.7 | −7.3 | ||
Turnout | 35,995 | 64.9 | +3.2 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | −3.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Simon Hughes | 17,185 | 49.9 | N/A | |
Labour | John Tilley | 12,021 | 34.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Robert Hughes | 4,481 | 13.0 | N/A | |
National Front | James S. Sneath | 474 | 1.4 | N/A | |
New Britain | Kevin Timothy Mason | 154 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Revolutionary Communist | Afzal Farehk | 54 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Independent | Thomas Leslie Keen | 50 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Nationalist Party | Miss Susan Caroline McKenzie | 50 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,164 | 15.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 34,469 | 61.7 | N/A | ||
Liberal win (new seat) |
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, p.253 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge87/i18.htm
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge83/i18.htm
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic)
- Politics of Southwark
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1997
- Bermondsey