Southwark (UK Parliament constituency)

Southwark was a parliamentary constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

centred on the Southwark

Southwark

Southwark is a district of south London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Southwark. Situated east of Charing Cross, it forms one of the oldest parts of London and fronts the River Thames to the north...

district of South London

South London

South London is the southern part of London, England, United Kingdom.According to the 2011 official Boundary Commission for England definition, South London includes the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Southwark, Sutton and...

. It returned two Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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to the House of Commons

British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

of the English Parliament from 1295 to 1707, to the Parliament of Great Britain

Parliament of Great Britain

The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and Parliament of Scotland...

from 1707 to 1800, and to the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

until the constituency's abolition for the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

-Seats summary:-See also:*List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885*Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918*Representation of the People Act 1884*Redistribution of Seats Act 1885-References:...

.

The constituency was re-established as a single-member seat for the 1950 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1950

The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950 resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just five...

, and abolished for the February 1974 general election

United Kingdom general election, February 1974

The United Kingdom's general election of February 1974 was held on the 28th of that month. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the first election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party,...

MPs 1295–1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	Henry Thymelby	William Beeche
1388 (Feb)	John Northampton	William Porter
1388 (Sep)	Roger Chandler	Richard atte Vine
1390 (Jan)	William Wintringham	John Mucking
1390 (Nov)
1391	William Spalding	Walter Segrave
1393	John Solas	Thomas Solas
1394
1395	John Solas	John Mucking
1397 (Jan)	Thomas atte Gill	John Mucking
1397 (Sep)	William Derby	John Mucking
1399	Ralph Spalding	John Parker
1401
1402	John Gofaire	John Mucking
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	John Baker	Thomas Spencer
1407	Thomas Colman	John Deken
1410
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	William Horton	Thomas Spencer
1414 (Apr)	John William	John Welles
1414 (Nov)	John Solas	William Kirton
1415	William Redstone	Thomas Spencer
1416 (Mar)	John Solas	John Mucking
1416 (Oct)
1417	William Kirton	John Deken
1419	Robert William	John Welles
1420	William Kirton	John Deken
1421 (May)	William Redstone	John Deken
1421 (Dec)	Thomas Dewy	Thomas Lucas
1510-1523	No names known
1529	Sir John Shilston, died 1530	Robert Acton
1536	Thomas Bulla	?
1539	Sir Richard Long	Robert Acton
1542	Robert Acton	Thomas Bulla
1545	?	William Gyllam
1547	Sir John Gates, repl. by Jan 1552 by John Sayer	Richard Fulmerston
1553 (Mar)	John Eston	John Sayer
1553 (Oct)	Humphrey Colet	John Sayer
1554 (Apr)	John Eston	John Sayer
1554 (Nov)	John Eston	John Sayer
1555	John Eston	Humphrey Colet
1558	John Eston	Robert Freeman
1559	John Eston	Robert Freeman
1562/3	Thomas Cure	Oliffe Burr
1571	Thomas Cure	William Wilson
1572	Oliffe Burr	Thomas Way
1584	Thomas Way	Richard Hutton
1586	Thomas Cure	Richard Hutton
1588/9	Richard Hutton	William Pratt
1593	Hugh Browker	Richard Hutton
1597	Edmund Bowyer	Richard Hutton
1601	Mathew Dale	Zachariah Locke Zachariah Locke Zachariah Locke was an English politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Southwark, London from 1601 to 1604.-References:...
1604-1611	Sir George Rivers George Rivers Sir George Rivers was an English politician.He was born the son of Sir John Rivers of Chafford and Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir George Barne, and probably educated at Trinity College, Cambridge...	William Counden
1614	Edward Cox	Richard Yarward Richard Yarward Richard Yarward was an English politician. From 1621 to 1622, he was the Member of Parliament for Southwark, London. He is identified in the Dictionary of National Biography, under the name Yarwood or Yearwood, with the stepfather of John Harvard who was a Southwark grocer....
1621	Richard Yarward Richard Yarward Richard Yarward was an English politician. From 1621 to 1622, he was the Member of Parliament for Southwark, London. He is identified in the Dictionary of National Biography, under the name Yarwood or Yearwood, with the stepfather of John Harvard who was a Southwark grocer....	Robert Bromfield Robert Bromfield Robert Bromfield was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Southwark, London in 1621 and 1624.Bromfield had leased a Southwark wharf since 1601. He appears, described as a woodmonger, in the diary of Philip Henslowe, and was one of the overseers of Henslowe's will in 1616...
1624	Richard Yarward Richard Yarward Richard Yarward was an English politician. From 1621 to 1622, he was the Member of Parliament for Southwark, London. He is identified in the Dictionary of National Biography, under the name Yarwood or Yearwood, with the stepfather of John Harvard who was a Southwark grocer....	Robert Bromfield Robert Bromfield Robert Bromfield was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Southwark, London in 1621 and 1624.Bromfield had leased a Southwark wharf since 1601. He appears, described as a woodmonger, in the diary of Philip Henslowe, and was one of the overseers of Henslowe's will in 1616...
1625	Richard Yarward Richard Yarward Richard Yarward was an English politician. From 1621 to 1622, he was the Member of Parliament for Southwark, London. He is identified in the Dictionary of National Biography, under the name Yarwood or Yearwood, with the stepfather of John Harvard who was a Southwark grocer....	William Cox
1626	Richard Yarward Richard Yarward Richard Yarward was an English politician. From 1621 to 1622, he was the Member of Parliament for Southwark, London. He is identified in the Dictionary of National Biography, under the name Yarwood or Yearwood, with the stepfather of John Harvard who was a Southwark grocer....	William Cox
1628	Richard Yarward Richard Yarward Richard Yarward was an English politician. From 1621 to 1622, he was the Member of Parliament for Southwark, London. He is identified in the Dictionary of National Biography, under the name Yarwood or Yearwood, with the stepfather of John Harvard who was a Southwark grocer....	William Cox
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

MPs 1640–1885

Election	\|Second Member	Second Party
November 1640 Long Parliament The Long Parliament was made on 3 November 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It received its name from the fact that through an Act of Parliament, it could only be dissolved with the agreement of the members, and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and...		Edward Bagshawe Edward Bagshawe (MP) Edward Bagshaw the elder was an English author and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....	Royalist Cavalier Cavalier was the name used by Parliamentarians for a Royalist supporter of King Charles I and son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration...	John White John White (Welsh politician) John White was a Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1645.White was from a family of merchants from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. He was the second son of Henry and Jane White...	Parliamentarian Roundhead "Roundhead" was the nickname given to the supporters of the Parliament during the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against King Charles I and his supporters, the Cavaliers , who claimed absolute power and the divine right of kings...
January 1644	Bagshawe disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645		George Thomson		George Snelling
1653	Southwark was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament Barebones Parliament Barebone's Parliament, also known as the Little Parliament, the Nominated Assembly and the Parliament of Saints, came into being on 4 July 1653, and was the last attempt of the English Commonwealth to find a stable political form before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector...
1654 First Protectorate Parliament The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the House....		Samuel Highland		Robert Warcup
1656 Second Protectorate Parliament The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons...		Samuel Highland		Peter De La Noy
January 1659 Third Protectorate Parliament The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speakers of the House of Commons...		George Thomson		Andrew Brewer
April 1660		John Langham Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet Sir John Langham. 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654 and 1660.Langham was a Turkey merchant and acquired a considerable fortune in the City of London. He was an alderman and sheriff of London in 1642...		Sir Thomas Bludworth
1661		George Moore
1666		Sir Thomas Clarges Thomas Clarges Sir Thomas Clarges was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1656 and 1695. He played an important part in bringing about the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660....
1679		Sir Richard How		Peter Rich
1685		Sir Peter Daniel		Anthony Bowyer
1689		John Arnold		Sir Peter Rich
1690		John Arnold		Anthony Bowyer
1695		Sir Charles Cox Charles Cox (brewer) Sir Charles Cox was an English brewer and Whig Member of Parliament for Southwark from 1695 to 1712. For many years afterwards the MP for Southwark would generally be a brewer....	Whig	Anthony Bowyer
1698				John Cholmley
January 1712				Edmund Halsey
February 1712				Sir George Matthews
1713		John Lade		Fisher Tench Sir Fisher Tench, 1st Baronet Sir Fisher Tench, 1st Baronet was a City of London financier, who was a Member of Parliament and a director of several companies.-Background:...	Whig
1722 British general election, 1722 The British general election of 1722 elected members to serve in the House of Commons of the 6th Parliament of Great Britain. This event took place following the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election was fiercely fought, with contests taking place...		George Meggott		Edmund Halsey
1724 by-election		John Lade
1727 British general election, 1727 The British general election, 1727 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election was triggered by the death of George I; at the time elections...		Sir Joseph Eyles
1730 by-election		Sir Joseph Eyles		Thomas Inwen
1734 British general election, 1734 The British general election, 1734 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 8th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. Robert Walpole's increasingly unpopular Whig government lost ground to the...		George Heathcote George Heathcote George Heathcote was an eighteenth century English politician and philanthropist who was a Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London.He was a nephew of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Governor of the Bank of England...
1741 British general election, 1741 The British general election, 1741 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 9th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707...		Ralph Thrale
1743 by-election		Ralph Thrale		Alexander Hume
1747 British general election, 1747 The British general election, 1747 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election saw Henry Pelham's Whig government increase its majority and...		William Belchier		Alexander Hume
1754 British general election, 1754 The British general election, 1754 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 11th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707....		William Belchier		William Hammond
1761 British general election, 1761 The British general election, 1761 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707...		Joseph Mawbey		Alexander Hume
1765 by-election		Joseph Mawbey		Henry Thrale Henry Thrale Henry Thrale was an 18th century English Member of Parliament and a close friend of Samuel Johnson. Like his father, he was the proprietor of the large London brewery, H. Thrale & Co....
1774 British general election, 1774 The British general election, 1774 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.-Summary of the Constituencies:...		Nathaniel Polhill
1780 British general election, 1780 The British general election, 1780 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 15th Parliament of Great Britain to be held after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707...		Nathaniel Polhill		Sir Richard Hotham Richard Hotham Sir Richard Hotham was an English eighteenth century property developer and politician who rose from humble origins to a position of some power and influence. He is especially noted for his development of the Sussex village of Bognor Regis into a seaside resort...
1782 by-election		Henry Thornton	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
April 1784 British general election, 1784 The British general election of 1784 resulted in William Pitt the Younger securing an overall majority of about 120 in the House of Commons of Great Britain, having previously had to survive in a House which was dominated by his opponents.-Background:...				Sir Barnard Turner
June 1784 by-election				Paul le Mesurier
May 1796 British general election, 1796 The British general election, 1796 returned members to serve in the 18th and last House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain to be held before the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801...				George Woodford Thellusson	Whig
December 1796 by-election				George Tierney George Tierney George Tierney PC was an English Whig politician.-Background and education:Born in Gibraltar, Tierney was the son of Thomas Tierney, a wealthy Irish merchant of London, who was living in Gibraltar as prize agent. He was sent to Eton and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Law in 1784...	Whig
1806 United Kingdom general election, 1806 The United Kingdom general election, 1806 was the election of members to the 3rd Parliament of the United Kingdom. This was the second general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland....				Sir Thomas Turton, Bt
1812 United Kingdom general election, 1812 The election to the 5th Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1812 was the fourth general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland....				Charles Calvert Charles Calvert (MP) Charles Calvert was a wealthy English brewer and Member of Parliament in the early 19th century.Calvert was the third son of Southwark brewer Felix Calvert, and was educated at Tonbridge and Harrow Schools...	Whig
1815 by-election		Charles Barclay
1818 United Kingdom general election, 1818 The 1818 general election of the United Kingdom saw the Whigs gain a few seats, but the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool retained a majority of around 90 seats...		Sir Robert Thomas Wilson Robert Thomas Wilson General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson Kt was a British general and politician who served in Egypt, Prussia, and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He sat as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Southwark from 1818 to 1831...	Whig
Aug 1830 United Kingdom general election, 1830 The 1830 United Kingdom general election, was triggered by the death of King George IV and produced the first parliament of the reign of his successor, William IV. Fought in the aftermath of the Swing Riots, it saw electoral reform become a major election issue...				John Rawlinson Harris
Nov 1830 by-election				Charles Calvert Charles Calvert (MP) Charles Calvert was a wealthy English brewer and Member of Parliament in the early 19th century.Calvert was the third son of Southwark brewer Felix Calvert, and was educated at Tonbridge and Harrow Schools...	Whig
1831 United Kingdom general election, 1831 The 1831 general election in the United Kingdom saw a landslide win by supporters of electoral reform, which was the major election issue. As a result it was the last unreformed election, as the Parliament which resulted ensured the passage of the Reform Act 1832. Polling was held from 28 April to...		William Brougham William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux DL, JP , known as William Brougham until 1868, was a British barrister and Whig politician.-Background and education:...	Whig		Whig
1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 -Seats summary:-Parties and leaders at the general election:The Earl Grey had been Prime Minister since 22 November 1830. His was the first predominantly Whig administration since the Ministry of all the Talents in 1806-1807....			Whig	John Humphery	Whig
1835 United Kingdom general election, 1835 The 1835 United Kingdom general election was called when Parliament was dissolved on 29 December 1834. Polling took place between 6 January and 6 February 1835, and the results saw Robert Peel's Conservatives make large gains from their low of the 1832 election, but the Whigs maintained a large...		Daniel Whittle Harvey Daniel Whittle Harvey Daniel Whittle Harvey was a Radical English politician who founded The Sunday Times newspaper and was the first Commissioner of the City of London Police....	Radical Radicals (UK) The Radicals were a parliamentary political grouping in the United Kingdom in the early to mid 19th century, who drew on earlier ideas of radicalism and helped to transform the Whigs into the Liberal Party.-Background:...
1840 by-election		Benjamin Wood	Whig
1845 by-election		Sir William Molesworth	Radical Radicals (UK) The Radicals were a parliamentary political grouping in the United Kingdom in the early to mid 19th century, who drew on earlier ideas of radicalism and helped to transform the Whigs into the Liberal Party.-Background:...
1852 United Kingdom general election, 1852 The July 1852 United Kingdom general election was a watershed election in the formation of the modern political parties of Britain. Following 1852, the Tory/Conservative party became, more completely, the party of the rural aristocracy, while the Whig/Liberal party became the party of the rising...		Sir William Molesworth		Apsley Pellatt Apsley Pellatt Apsley Pellatt was an English glassware manufacturer and politician.The son of glassware makers Apsley Pellatt and Mary Pellatt, Apsley joined the family glass-making company of Pellatt and Green in 1811...	Whig
1855 by-election		Sir Charles Napier	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...		Whig
1857 United Kingdom general election, 1857 -Seats summary:-References:F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987 British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...		Sir Charles Napier		John Locke John Locke (MP) John Locke was an English barrister, author and Liberal Party politician.The only son of John Locke, a surveyor of Herne Hill, he was educated at Dulwich College. Reading law at Trinity College, Cambridge, he left with an MA in 1832 and was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1833...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
1860 by-election		Austen Henry Layard Austen Henry Layard Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB, PC was a British traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, author, politician and diplomat, best known as the excavator of Nimrud.-Family:...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
1870 by-election		Francis Beresford Francis Beresford Colonel Francis Marcus Beresford was a British Conservative Party politicianHe was born at Aylestone, Leicestershire, and was Member of Parliament for Southwark from 1870 to 1880....	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1880 by-election				Edward George Clarke Edward George Clarke Sir Edward George Clarke QC QC was a British barrister and politician, considered one of the leading advocates of the late Victorian era and serving as Solicitor-General in the Conservative government of 1886–1892...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1880 United Kingdom general election, 1880 -Seats summary:-References:F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987 British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...		Arthur Cohen Arthur Cohen Arthur Cohen KC was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician.After three years' study at the gymnasium in Frankfort-on-the-Main, he entered as a student at University College London. Thence he proceeded to Cambridge University at a time when it was almost impossible for a Jew to gain...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...	James Edwin Thorold Rogers James Edwin Thorold Rogers James Edwin Thorold Rogers , known as Thorold Rogers, was an English economist, historian and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1886. He deployed historical and statistical methods to analyze some of the key economic and social questions in Victorian England...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 -Seats summary:-See also:List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918Representation of the People Act 1884Redistribution of Seats Act 1885-References:...	constituency abolished: see Bermondsey Bermondsey (UK Parliament constituency) Bermondsey was a borough constituency centred on the Bermondsey district of South London, England. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom... , Rotherhithe Rotherhithe (UK Parliament constituency) Rotherhithe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Rotherhithe district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.... and Southwark West Southwark West (UK Parliament constituency) Southwark West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Southwark district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

MPs 1950–1974

Election		Member	Party
	1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950 resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just five...	George Isaacs	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
	1959 United Kingdom general election, 1959 This United Kingdom general election was held on 8 October 1959. It marked a third successive victory for the ruling Conservative Party, led by Harold Macmillan...	Ray Gunter	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
	1972 by-election Southwark by-election, 1972 The Southwark by-election, 1972 was a by-election held on 4 May 1972 for the British House of Commons constituency of Southwark.The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the serving Labour Party Member of Parliament , Ray Gunter.-Candidates:...	Harry Lamborn	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
Feb 1974 United Kingdom general election, February 1974 The United Kingdom's general election of February 1974 was held on the 28th of that month. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the first election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party,...		constituency abolished

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