Holborn and St Pancras South was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holborn district of Central London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
Holborn and St Pancras South | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Holborn & St Pancras South in London 1950-74 | |
County | 1950–1965: County of London 1965–1983: Greater London |
1950–1983 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Holborn, St Pancras South East and St Pancras South West |
Replaced by | Holborn & St Pancras |
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Holborn and St Pancras.
Boundaries
edit1950–1974: 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
editElection | Member | Party | |
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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
editElections in the 1950s
editParty | 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
editParty | 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
editParty | 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
edit- ^ "1953 by Elections". by-elections.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ a b Election Expenses. Parliament of the United Kingdom. 1980. p. 10. ISBN 0102374805.