Lambeth (UK Parliament constituency)
Lambeth | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Greater London |
1832–1885 | |
Number of members | Two |
Replaced by | Brixton, Camberwell North, Dulwich, Kennington, Lambeth North, Newington West, Norwood and Peckham, Newington Walworth |
Created from | Surrey |
Lambeth was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Lambeth district now part of south London. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.
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History
The constituency was created under the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, and abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election.
It was divided into eight single member constituencies of Camberwell North, Camberwell Peckham, Lambeth Brixton, Lambeth Kennington, Lambeth North, Lambeth Norwood, Newington Walworth and Newington West.[1]
Boundaries
Under the original proposals for the constituency it would have consisted of a large area of south east London comprising the parishes of Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Newington, Lambeth and Camberwell. The commissioners appointed to fix parliamentary boundaries attempted to equalise each of the new "metropolitan" constituencies of London in terms of the number of voters and of population. For this reason Bermondsey and Rotherhithe were assigned to the neighbouring constituency of Southwark. It was also decided not to include the entirety of the parishes of Camberwell and Lambeth: both were very large parishes running five or six miles south from the Thames. The portions closest to the river were heavily built up, but the southern sections were still rural. Peckham and part of Brixton were therefore excluded from the constituency, instead forming part of the Eastern Division of the parliamentary county of Surrey.[2]
The boundaries of the parliamentary borough were detailed in the schedules of the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832, and consisted of:
- The entire parish of St Mary Newington
- The parish of St Giles Camberwell (except for the Manor and Hamlet of Dulwich)
- The part of the parish of Lambeth north of a line defined in the act.[3]
The constituency was unchanged when parliamentary seats were next redistributed under the Reform Act 1867.[1]
Members of Parliament
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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1832 | Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt | Radical | Benjamin Hawes | Whig | ||
1847 | Charles Pearson | Liberal Party | ||||
1850 by-election | William Williams | Liberal Party | ||||
1852 | William Arthur Wilkinson | Liberal Party | ||||
1857 | William Roupell[4] | Liberal Party | ||||
1862 by-election | Frederick Doulton[5] | Liberal | ||||
1865 by-election | James Clarke Lawrence | Liberal | ||||
1865 | Thomas Hughes | Liberal | ||||
1868 | Sir James Clarke Lawrence | Liberal | Sir William McArthur | Liberal | ||
1885 | constituency abolished: see Brixton, Camberwell North, Dulwich, Kennington, Lambeth North, Newington West, Norwood and Peckham, Newington Walworth |
Election results
Elections in the 1830s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt | 2,716 | 46.4 | N/A | |
Whig | Benjamin Hawes | 2,166 | 37.0 | N/A | |
Whig | Daniel Wakefield | 819 | 14.0 | N/A | |
Whig | John Moore | 155 | 2.7 | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt | 2,008 | 40.7 | -5.7 | |
Whig | Benjamin Hawes | 1,995 | 40.4 | +3.4 | |
Conservative | Charles Farebrother | 931 | 18.9 | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Benjamin Hawes | 2,934 | 39.8 | -0.6 | |
Radical | Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt | 2,811 | 38.1 | -2.6 | |
Conservative | Charles Baldwin | 1,624 | +3.1 | 22.0 |
Elections in the 1840s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Benjamin Hawes | 2,601 | 29.1 | -10.7 | |
Radical | Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt | 2,568 | 28.8 | -9.3 | |
Conservative | Charles Baldwin | 1,999 | +30.4 | 22.4 | |
Conservative | Thomas Cabbell | 1,763 | N/A | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Pearson | 4,614 | 39.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt | 3,708 | 31.2 | +2.4 | |
Liberal | Benjamin Hawes | 3,344 | 28.7 | -0.4 |
Elections in the 1850s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Williams | 3,834 | 68.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | Sir Charles Napier | 1,182 | 21.1 | N/A | |
Liberal | John Hinde Palmer | 585 | 10.4 | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Arthur Wilkinson | 4,752 | 37.7 | N/A | |
Liberal | William Williams | 4,022 | 31.9 | +2.2 | |
Liberal | Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt | 3,829 | 30.4 | -0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Roupell | 9,086 | 46.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | William Williams | 7,343 | 37.5 | +5.6 | |
Liberal | William Arthur Wilkinson | 3,156 | 16.1 | +21.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Roupell | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Liberal | William Williams | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
Elections in the 1860s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Frederick Doulton | 5,124 | 82.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Campbell Sleigh | 754 | 12.1 | N/A | |
Liberal | William Arthur Wilkinson | 347 | 5.6 | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | James Clarke Lawrence | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Thomas Hughes | 6,373 | 35.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Frederick Doulton | 6,280 | 35.1 | N/A | |
Liberal | James Clarke Lawrence | 4,743 | 26.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | James Haig | 514 | 2.9 | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | James Clarke Lawrence | 15,051 | 41.1 | + 14.6 | |
Liberal | William McArthur | 14,553 | 39.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | John Morgan Howard | 7,043 | 19.2 | + 16.3 |
Election in the 1870s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | James Clarke Lawrence | 12,175 | 34.6 | -6.4 | |
Liberal | William McArthur | 11,788 | 33.5 | -6.2 | |
Conservative | John Morgan Howard | 11,201 | 31.9 | +12.7 |
Election in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | James Clarke Lawrence | 19,315 | 35.1 | +0.5 | |
Liberal | William McArthur | 18,983 | 34.5 | +1.0 | |
Conservative | John Morgan Howard | 16,701 | 30.4 | -1.5 |
Notes
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- ↑ "From the Point at which the Road from London to Dulwich by Red Post Hill leaves the Road from London over Herne Hill in a straight Line to Saint Matthews Church at Brixton; thence in a straight Line to a Point in the Boundary between the respective Parishes of Lambeth and Clapham One hundred and fifty Yards South of the Middle of the Carriageway along Acre Lane." Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Resigned 4 February 1862 (Harris (2001) p.119)
- ↑ Elected byelection 5 May 1862 (Harris (2001) p.119)
Bibliography
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- Pages with broken file links
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
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- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1832
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1885
- Politics of Lambeth
- History of Lambeth