Bermondsey West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Bermondsey 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 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Boundaries
The constituency, when it was created in 1918, comprised the wards numbered One, Two, Three and Four of the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey, in the County of London. This was the south-western part of the borough, and was similar in extent to the preceding Bermondsey Division of the parliamentary borough of Southwark.
It covered South Bermondsey ward and most of London Bridge & West Bermondsey ward, together with small sections of North Bermondsey, Chaucer and Old Kent Road wards, in the modern day London Borough of Southwark.
Members of Parliament ElectionMemberPartyNotes 1918 Harold Glanville Liberal Member for main predecessor seat (1910–1918) 1922 Alfred Salter Labour 1923 Roderick Kedward Liberal 1924 Alfred Salter Labour 1945 Richard Sargood 1950 constituency abolished: see Bermondsey
Election results Election in the 1910s
Election in the 1920s
Election in the 1930s
Glanville was a son of the former MP Harold Glanville. Conservative candidate Francis Howard Collier withdrew when Glanville gave an undertaking to support the National Government.The Times House of Commons, 1935
Election in the 1940s
References
Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)