Kennington (UK Parliament constituency)
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Kennington | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1885–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Vauxhall |
Created from | Lambeth |
Kennington was a borough constituency centred on the Kennington 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 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles William Gibson | 12,910 | 70.2 | ||
Conservative | S.H. Stanley | 5,471 | 29.8 | ||
Majority | 7,439 | 40.4 | |||
Turnout | 29,529 | 62.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Charles Wilmot | 10,715 | 60.1 | ||
Conservative | A. Kennedy | 7,119 | 39.9 | ||
Majority | 3,596 | 20.2 | |||
Turnout | 43,907 | 40.6 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | George Harvey | 12,401 | 51.1 | ||
Labour | Leonard Warburton Matters | 11,856 | 48.9 | ||
Majority | 545 | 2.2 | |||
Turnout | 43,583 | 55.7 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | George Harvey | 18,371 | 64.3 | ||
Labour | Leonard Warburton Matters | 10,188 | 35.7 | ||
Majority | 8,183 | 28.6 | |||
Turnout | 46,600 | 61.3 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leonard Warburton Matters | 15,477 | 55.7 | +12.0 | |
Unionist | George Harvey | 12,328 | 44.3 | -12.0 | |
Majority | 3,149 | 11.4 | 24.0 | ||
Turnout | 46,290 | 60.1 | -10.2 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +12.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | George Harvey | 14,898 | 56.3 | ||
Labour | Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams | 11,572 | 43.7 | ||
Majority | 3,326 | 12.6 | |||
Turnout | 37,629 | 70.3 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams | 8,292 | 39.2 | +3.1 | |
Unionist | Reginald Blair | 7,782 | 36.8 | -10.5 | |
Liberal | Thomas Owen Jacobsen | 5,075 | 24.0 | +7.4 | |
Majority | 510 | 2.4 | 13.6 | ||
Turnout | 36,729 | 57.6 | -0.8 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +6.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Francis Capel Harrison | 10,081 | 47.3 | ||
Labour | Harry Gosling | 7,670 | 36.1 | ||
National Liberal | Henry George Purchase | 3,522 | 16.6 | ||
Majority | 2,411 | 11.2 | |||
Turnout | 36,451 | 58.4 | |||
Unionist gain from Coalition Liberal | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Coalition Liberal | Henry George Purchase | 4,705 | 42.4 | ||
Conservative | Mrs. Alice Lucas | 3,573 | 32.2 | ||
Labour | William Glennie | 2,817 | 25.4 | ||
Majority | 1,132 | 10.2 | |||
Turnout | 37,322 | 29.7 | |||
Coalition Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Stephen Collins | 3,565 | 47.6 | ||
Conservative | Francis Alfred Lucas | 3,510 | 46.9 | ||
Socialist | Albert Victor Grayson | 408 | 5.5 | ||
Majority | 55 | 0.7 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Stephen Collins | 4,246 | 52.3 | ||
Conservative | Francis Alfred Lucas | 3,865 | 47.7 | ||
Majority | 381 | 4.6 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -8.0 |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Stephen Collins | 4,639 | 60.3 | ||
Conservative | Sir Frederick Lucas Cook | 3,054 | 39.7 | ||
Majority | 1,585 | 20.6 | |||
Turnout | 10,382 | 74.1 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +24.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Frederick Lucas Cook | 4,195 | 64.5 | ||
Liberal | Richard Walter Essex | 2,309 | 35.5 | ||
Majority | 1,886 | 29.0 | |||
Turnout | 10,432 | 62.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +7.7 |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Frederick Lucas Cook | 3,764 | 51.8 | ||
Liberal | Mark Hanbury Beaufoy | 2,769 | 38.1 | ||
Independent Liberal | W. Wightman | 730 | 10.1 | ||
Majority | 995 | 13.7 | |||
Turnout | 10,117 | 71.8 | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +11.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Mark Hanbury Beaufoy | 3,860 | 54.3 | ||
Conservative | Ferdinand Faithfull Begg | 3,253 | 45.7 | ||
Majority | 607 | 8.6 | |||
Turnout | 9,348 | 76.1 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.1 |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Mark Hanbury Beaufoy | 4,069 | 54.2 | ||
Conservative | P.B. Beresford-Hope | 3,439 | 45.8 | ||
Majority | 630 | 8.4 | |||
Turnout | 8,920 | 84.2 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +7.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Gent-Davis | 3,222 | 53.6 | ||
Liberal | Mark Hanbury Beaufoy | 2,792 | 46.4 | ||
Majority | 430 | 7.2 | |||
Turnout | 8,313 | 72.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Gent-Davis | 3,351 | 52.6 | ||
Liberal | John O'Connor Power | 2,991 | 46.9 | ||
Social Democratic Federation | John Fielding | 32 | 0.5 | ||
Majority | 360 | 5.7 | |||
Turnout | 8,313 | 76.7 |
References
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- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
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