Battersea South (UK Parliament constituency)

Battersea South
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	County of London, then Greater London
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Battersea, and Tooting
Created from	Battersea

Battersea South was a parliamentary constituency, originally in the County of London and later in Greater 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.

It was created for the 1918 general election, when the former Battersea constituency was divided in two. It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when most of its territory was reunited with Battersea North to form the new Battersea constituency.

Boundaries

Battersea South in London 1918-49

A map showing the wards of Battersea Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916

Battersea South in London 1950-74

The seat was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918, and originally consisted of five wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea: Bolingbroke, Broomwood, St John, Shaftesbury and Winstanley.^[1]

When seats were redistributed by the Representation of the People Act 1948 the boundaries of the constituency were altered to contain only four wards, and Winstanley ward was transferred to Battersea North.^[2] However the wards of the borough were redrawn in 1949 prior to the next general election in 1950.^[3] Accordingly, changes were made under the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949. Of the 16 new wards, eight were included in each of the Battersea North and South constituencies. From 1950 to 1974 Battersea South consisted of Bolingbroke, Broomwood, Lavender, Nightingale, St John, Shaftesbury, Stormont and Thornton wards.^[4]^[5]

In 1965 Battersea became part of the London Borough of Wandsworth. This, however made no immediate change to the parliamentary constituencies. It was not until the general election of February 1974 that the constituency boundaries were altered. Renamed Wandsworth, Battersea South, the seat was defined as consisting of five wards of the London Borough: Balham, Earlsfield, Fairfield, Nightingale and Northcote.^[6] The Shaftesbury and St John's wards were transferred to Battersea North, while the new constituency incorporated areas previously in the Clapham and Putney seats. These boundaries were used until abolition.^[5]

The constituency was abolished in 1983. Most of its area (Balham, Fairfield and Northcote) went to the recreated Battersea seat, with part (Earlsfield and Nightingale) passing to Tooting.^[6]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Viscount Curzon	Conservative
	1929 by-election	William Bennett	Labour
	1931	Sir Harry Selley	Conservative
	1945	Caroline Ganley	Labour Co-operative
	1951	Ernest Partridge	Conservative
	1964	Ernie Perry	Labour
	1979	Alf Dubs	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alfred Dubs	13,984	45.11
	Conservative	Wellesley Theodore Octavius Wallace	13,652	44.04
	Liberal	Jennifer Margaret Ware	2,802	9.04
	National Front	A Perry	561	1.81
Majority			332	1.07
Turnout			31,000	70.92
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ernest George Perry	14,284	47.84
	Conservative	Wellesley Theodore Octavius Wallace	11,433	38.29
	Liberal	Jennifer Margaret Ware	3,971	13.3
	More Prosperous Britain	Thomas Leslie Keen	170	0.57
Majority			2,851	9.55
Turnout			29,856	63.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ernest George Perry	14,431	42.55
	Conservative	Anthony V Bradbury	12,778	37.68
	Liberal	G Mulholland	5,919	17.45
	National Front	John Clifton	787	2.32
Majority			1,653	4.87
Turnout			33,916	73.02
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 18 June 1970: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ernest George Perry	10,925	49.54
	Conservative	Ian Norman Samuel	9,227	41.84
	Liberal	R Benad	1,183	5.36
	National Front	Tom Lamb	716	3.25
Majority			1,698	7.7
Turnout			22,050	63.57
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 31 March 1966: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ernest George Perry	13,651	52.94
	Conservative	Ian Norman Samuel	9,861	38.24
	Liberal	Basil Weekley	2,276	8.83
Majority			3,790	14.70
Turnout				72.95
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 15 October 1964: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ernest George Perry	12,253	46.84
	Conservative	Ernest Partridge	10,615	40.57
	Liberal	David Layton	3,294	12.59
Majority			1,638	6.26
Turnout				72.30
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 8 October 1959: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ernest Partridge	14,203	48.26
	Labour	Geoffrey William Rhodes	12,451	42.31
	Liberal	William Broderick Mattinson	2,774	9.43
Majority			1,752	5.95
Turnout				78.85
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 26 May 1955: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ernest Partridge	15,044	47.57
	Labour	Eric Kenneth I Hurst	14,365	45.42
	Liberal	Alan Cooper-Smith	2.219	7.02
Majority			679	2.15
Turnout				80.60
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 25 October 1951: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ernest Partridge	17,731	50.71
	Labour Co-op	Caroline Selina Ganley	17,237	49.29
Majority			494	1.41
Turnout				85.61
	Conservative gain from Labour Co-op		Swing

General Election 23 February 1950: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Caroline Selina Ganley	16,142	46.30
	Conservative	Ernest Partridge	15,774	45.24
	Liberal	Clifford Henry Tyers	2,949	8.46
Majority			368	1.06
Turnout				85.62
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Election in the 1940s

General Election 5 to 19 July 1945: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Caroline Selina Ganley	19,275	61.53
	Conservative	Ernest Partridge	12,050	38.47
Majority			7,225	23.06
Turnout				73.04
	Labour Co-op gain from Conservative		Swing

Election in the 1930s

General Election 14 November 1935: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Harry Ralph Selley	21,268	57.3
	Labour	Herbert George Romeril	15,821	42.7
Majority			5,447	14.6
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 27 October 1931: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Harry Ralph Selley	27,857	66.9
	Labour	William Bennett	12,822	30.8
	New Party	L J Cuming	909	2.3
Majority			15,035	36.1
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Election in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Bennett	18,113	43.9
	Unionist	Harry Ralph Selley	17,695	42.8
	Liberal	William James West	5,516	13.3
Majority			418	1.0
Turnout				72.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Battersea South by-election, 1929
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Bennett	11,789	45.5
	Unionist	Harry Ralph Selley	11,213	43.4
	Liberal	Vivian Claude Albu	2.858	11.1
Majority			576	2.1
Turnout			25,557	57.7
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 29 October 1924: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Viscount Francis Curzon	19,588	57.7
	Labour	Albert Winfield	14,371	42.3
Majority			5,217	15.4
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 6 December 1923: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Viscount Francis Curzon	14,558	52.0	-9.5
	Labour	Albert Winfield	13,440	48.0	+9.5
Majority			1,118	4.0	-19.0
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing	-9.5

General Election 1922: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Viscount Francis Curzon	17,685	61.5	-6.7
	Labour	Albert Winfield	11,050	38.5	+23.8
Majority			6,635	23.0	-30.5
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing	-15.2

Election in the 1910s

Arthur Lynch

General Election 14 December 1918: Battersea South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Viscount Francis Curzon	15,670	68.2
	Labour	Arthur Lynch	3,383	14.7
	Liberal	Joseph William Molden	2,273	9.9
	NFDDSS	John Ernest Philip Jenkin	1,657	7.2
Majority			12,287	53.5
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

↑ Representation of the People Act 1918 (1918 C.64) Schedule 9
↑ Representation of the People Act 1948, (1948, C.65), Schedule 1
↑ Battersea (Wards) Order 1949 (S.I. 1949/552)
↑ The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) (No. 2) Order, 1949 (S.I. 1949 No. 1440)
1 2 F A Youngs Jr., Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I: Southern England, London, 1979
1 2 The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1970 (1970 No. 1674)

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 1)

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 Brentford and Chiswick 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

1950	Barnet Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Streatham Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

1955	Barnet Barons Court Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hammersmith North Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Streatham Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

1974	Acton Barking Battersea North Battersea South Beckenham Bermondsey Bethnal Green and Bow Bexleyheath Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Carshalton Chelsea Chingford Chipping Barnet Chislehurst City of London and Westminster South Croydon Central Croydon North East Croydon North West Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich Ealing North Edmonton Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Crayford Feltham and Heston Finchley Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith North Hampstead Harrow Central Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon North Hendon South Holborn and St Pancras South Hornchurch Hornsey Ilford North Ilford South Islington Central Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lambeth Central Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton Mitcham and Morden Newham North East Newham North West Newham South Norwood Orpington Paddington Peckham Putney Ravensbourne Richmond Romford Ruislip-Northwood St Marylebone St Pancras North Sidcup Southall Stepney and Poplar Streatham Surbiton Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford Wimbledon Wood Green Woolwich East Woolwich West

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