Holborn and St Pancras South (UK Parliament constituency)
Holborn and St Pancras South | |
---|---|
Former Holborn & St Pancras |
Holborn and St Pancras South was a
first-past-the-post
voting system.
The constituency was created for the
Holborn and St Pancras
.
Boundaries
1950–1974: The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn, and wards five, six, seven and eight of the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras.
1974–1983: The London Borough of Camden wards of Bloomsbury, Euston, Holborn, King's Cross, Regent's Park, and St Pancras.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1950 | Santo Jeger | Labour | |
1953 by-election | Lena Jeger
|
Labour | |
1959 | Geoffrey Johnson-Smith | Conservative | |
1964 | Lena Jeger
|
Labour | |
1979 | Frank Dobson | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Holborn and St Pancras
|
Election results
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Santo Jeger | 19,223 | 48.51 | ||
Conservative | Peter John Feilding Chapman-Walker | 17,993 | 45.41 | ||
Liberal | Hilda Buckmaster | 2,411 | 6.08 | ||
Majority | 1,230 | 3.10 | |||
Turnout | 39,627 | 72.10 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Santo Jeger | 20,332 | 50.18 | ||
Conservative | Louis Gluckstein | 18,573 | 45.84 | ||
Liberal | Isaac Joseph Hyam | 1,616 | 3.99 | ||
Majority | 1,759 | 4.34 | |||
Turnout | 40,521 | 73.70 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lena Jeger
|
15,784 | 52.11 | +1.93 | |
Conservative | William Timothy Donovan | 13,808 | 45.59 | -0.25 | |
Liberal | Isaac Joseph Hyam | 695 | 2.29 | -1.70 | |
Majority | 1,976 | 6.52 | +2.18 | ||
Turnout | 30,287 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lena Jeger
|
17,126 | 49.62 | ||
Conservative | William Timothy Donovan | 16,195 | 46.92 | ||
Liberal | Isaac Joseph Hyam | 1,193 | 3.46 | ||
Majority | 931 | 2.70 | |||
Turnout | 34,514 | 67.30 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Johnson-Smith | 17,065 | 50.98 | ||
Labour | Lena Jeger
|
16,409 | 49.02 | ||
Majority | 656 | 1.96 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 33,474 | 69.01 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lena Jeger
|
15,873 | 54.33 | ||
Conservative | Geoffrey Johnson-Smith | 13,117 | 44.90 | ||
Independent | Ali Mohammad Bongo Abbas | 226 | 0.77 | New | |
Majority | 2,756 | 9.43 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 29,216 | 67.52 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lena Jeger
|
16,128 | 59.49 | ||
Conservative | Julian Michael Edmund Byng | 10,982 | 40.51 | ||
Majority | 5,146 | 19.98 | |||
Turnout | 27,110 | 65.54 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lena Jeger
|
12,448 | 55.15 | ||
Conservative | Julian Michael Edmund Byng | 10,125 | 44.85 | ||
Majority | 2,323 | 10.30 | |||
Turnout | 22,573 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lena Jeger
|
12,414 | 49.31 | ||
Conservative | Robert Frederick James Parsons | 8,223 | 32.54 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Hibbert | 4,632 | 18.33 | New | |
Majority | 4,191 | 16.77 | |||
Turnout | 25,269 | 64.81 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lena Jeger
|
11,790 | 55.94 | ||
Conservative | Robert Frederick James Parsons | 6,349 | 30.12 | ||
Liberal | Frederick Michael John Lee | 2,938 | 13.94 | ||
Majority | 5,441 | 25.82 | |||
Turnout | 21,077 | 53.81 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Frank Dobson | 12,026 | 49.31 | ||
Conservative | Robert Key | 9,703 | 39.79 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Hibbert | 2,190 | 8.98 | ||
National Front | Frank Theobald[2] | 334 | 1.37 | New | |
Workers Revolutionary | Peter Farrell[2] | 134 | 0.55 | New | |
Majority | 2,323 | 9.52 | |||
Turnout | 12,361 | 60.40 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
- ^ "1953 by Elections". by-elections.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ ISBN 0102374805.