St Pancras South East (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1950

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "St Pancras South East" UK Parliament constituency – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

St Pancras South East

Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Created from| St Pancras South and St Pancras East
Replaced by| Holborn and St Pancras South and St Pancras North

St. Pancras South East was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was created in 1918 by the division of St Pancras South into South East and South West divisions, and abolished in 1950.

## Politics and history of the constituency

[edit]

This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (July 2010)

|

## Boundaries

[edit]

St Pancras South East in London 1918-50

1918–1950: The Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras wards of six and eight, and the part of ward number three lying to the south and east of a line running along the middle of Camden Road from a point where that road is intersected by the eastern boundary of the metropolitan borough to the point where that road crosses the Regent's Canal and thence westward along the middle of that canal to the western boundary of Ward number three.

In 1950 the constituency was split between Holborn and St Pancras South (wards Six and Eight) and St Pancras North (ward Three).

## Members of Parliament

[edit]

Election | Member [1] | Party

|
|

| 1918 | John Hopkins | Unionist
| 1923 | Herbert Romeril | Labour
| 1924 | John Hopkins | Unionist
| 1929 | Herbert Romeril | Labour
| 1931 | Sir Alfred Beit | Conservative
| 1945 | Santo Jeger | Labour
| 1950 | constituency abolished

### Elections in the 1910s

[edit]

General election 1918: St Pancras South-East  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Unionist | John Hopkins | 4,884  | 37.8  |
| Liberal | Richard Reiss | 3,594  | 27.8  |
| Independent | Percy Adams* | 2,263  | 17.5  |
| Labour | Herbert Romeril | 2,189  | 16.9  |
Majority  | 1,290  | 10.0  |
Turnout | 12,930  | 47.2  |
| Unionist win (new seat)

* Some records describe Adams as an Independent, while others state that Adams, Hopkins and Reiss all supported the Coalition Government. One states that Coalition Government endorsement was initially issued to Reiss but subsequently withdrawn.

However, Craig records that Adams initially received the coupon with Liberal endorsement, and this was later withdrawn, with Craig claiming to be free of any party allegiance and previously having been outspokenly against the coalition.

### Elections in the 1920s

[edit]

General election 1922: St Pancras South-East  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Unionist | John Hopkins | 8,753  | 47.5  | +9.7
| Labour | Herbert Romeril | 5,609  | 30.5  | +13.6
| Liberal | Leonard Franklin | 4,053  | 22.0  | −5.8
Majority  | 3,144  | 17.0  | +7.0
Turnout | 18,415  | 60.1  | +12.9
| Unionist hold | Swing |  |
General election 1923: St Pancras South East  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Labour | Herbert Romeril | 7,866  | 41.6  | +11.1
| Unionist | John Hopkins | 7,174  | 37.9  | −9.6
| Liberal | George Swaffield  | 3,890  | 20.5  | −1.5
Majority  | 692  | 3.7  | N/A
Turnout | 18,950  |  |
| Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +10.3  |
General election 1924: St Pancras South-East  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Unionist | John Hopkins | 12,538  | 54.5  | +16.6
| Labour | Herbert Romeril | 10,463  | 45.5  | +3.9
Majority  | 2,075  | 9.0  | +5.3
Turnout | 23,001  | 72.6  |
| Unionist hold | Swing |  |
General election 1929: St Pancras South East  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Labour | Herbert Romeril | 13,173  | 47.9  | +2.4
| Unionist | Alfred Beit | 10,543  | 38.3  | −16.2
| Liberal | Elizabeth Edwardes  | 3,798  | 13.8  | New
Majority  | 2,630  | 9.6  | N/A
Turnout | 30,144  | 66.8  | −5.8
| Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +9.3  |

### Elections in the 1930s

[edit]

General election 1931: St Pancras South East  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | Alfred Beit | 18,064  | 66.7  | +28.4
| Labour | Herbert Romeril | 8,684  | 32.1  | −15.8
| Communist | Shaukat Usmani | 332  | 1.2  | New
Majority  | 9,380  | 34.6  | N/A
Turnout | 27.080  | 65.5  | −1.3
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |  |
General election 1935: St Pancras South East[2] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | Alfred Beit | 11,976  | 51.0  | −15.7
| Labour | Santo Jeger | 10,340  | 44.0  | +11.9
| Liberal | Laurence George Bowman | 1,181  | 5.0  | New
Majority  | 1,636  | 7.0  | −27.6
Turnout | 23,497  | 60.4  | −5.1
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |

### Elections in the 1940s

[edit]

General election 1945: St Pancras South East  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Labour | Santo Jeger | 10,030  | 59.6  | +15.6
| Conservative | Alfred Beit | 5,320  | 31.6  | −19.4
| Liberal | Audrey Blackman | 1,474  | 8.8  | +3.8
Majority  | 4,710  | 28.0  | N/A
Turnout | 16,824  | 64.3  | +3.9
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |  |

## References

[edit]

1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)
2. ^ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.

* v
* t
* e

Historic constituencies in London

1918|

* Balham and Tooting
* Battersea North
* Battersea South
* Bermondsey West
* Bethnal Green North East
* Bethnal Green South West
* Bow and Bromley
* Brixton
* Camberwell North
* Camberwell North West
* Clapham
* Dulwich
* Chelsea
* City of London
* Deptford
* Finsbury
* Fulham East
* Fulham West
* Greenwich
* Hackney Central
* Hackney North
* Hackney South
* Hammersmith North
* Hammersmith South
* Hampstead
* Holborn
* Islington East
* Islington North
* Islington South
* Islington West
* Kennington
* Kensington North
* Kensington South
* Lambeth North
* Lewisham East
* Lewisham West
* Limehouse
* Mile End
* Norwood
* Paddington North
* Paddington South
* Peckham
* Poplar South
* Putney
* Rotherhithe
* St Marylebone
* St Pancras North
* St Pancras South East
* St Pancras South West
* Shoreditch
* Southwark Central
* Southwark North
* Southwark South East
* Stoke Newington
* Streatham
* Wandsworth Central
* Westminster Abbey
* Westminster St George's
* Whitechapel and St George's
* Woolwich East
* Woolwich West

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template