Lambeth North was a borough constituency centred on the Lambeth district of South 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 system.

History

The constituency was created when the two-member Lambeth constituency was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. It was abolished for the 1950 general election when the area was absorbed into the Vauxhall constituency.

Boundaries 1885 - 1918: The constituency was defined as comprising three wards of the parish of Lambeth: Bishop's, North Marsh and South Marsh.Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule. Divisions of Boroughs: Number Names, Contents, and Boundaries of Divisions. The wards were those used to elect members of the Lambeth Vestry, the local authority established by the Metropolis Management Act 1855. 1918 - 1950: The Representation of the People Act 1918 reorganised constituencies in London, defining them in terms of the wards of the Metropolitan Boroughs which had replaced the vestries in 1900. The constituency comprised the following parts of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth: Bishop's Ward, Marsh Ward and the part of Prince's Ward that lay "to the north of a line running from Vauxhall Bridge along the middle of Upper Kennington Lane and Lower Kennington Lane to Newington Butts".Representation of the People Act 1918, Ninth Schedule, Part I: Parliamentary Boroughs

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty 1885 Sir Charles Craufurd Fraser Conservative 1892 Francis Coldwells Liberal 1895 Sir Henry Morton Stanley Liberal Unionist 1900 Frederick William Horner Conservative 1906 Horatio Myer Liberal Jan 1910 Sir William Houghton-Gastrell Conservative 1918 Frank Briant Liberal 1929 George Strauss Labour 1931 Frank Briant Liberal 1934 by-election George Strauss Labour1950 constituency abolished

Election results Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

References