Bethnal Green South West (UK Parliament constituency)

Bethnal Green South West
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Bethnal Green
Created from	Hackney

Bethnal Green South West was a constituency in London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was combined with Bethnal Green North East to form a new Bethnal Green constituency, reflecting the area's substantial fall in population.

Bethnal Green South West in the Metropolitan area 1885-1918

Bethnal Green South West in the County of London 1918-50

Boundaries

A map showing the wards of Bethnal Green Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.

The constituency consisted of the south and west wards of the civil parish of Bethnal Green, Middlesex (later the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green in the County of London).

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Edward Pickersgill	Liberal
	1900	Samuel Forde Ridley	Conservative
	1906	Edward Pickersgill	Liberal
	1911	Charles Masterman	Liberal
	1914	Sir Mathew Richard Henry Wilson	Unionist
	1922	Percy Harris	Liberal
	1945	Percy Holman	Labour
1950		constituency abolished: see Bethnal Green

Election results

Election in the 1880s

E.H. Pickersgill

General Election 1885: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Hare Pickersgill	3,088	58.4	n/a
	Conservative	John Evans Freke Aylmer	2,200	41.6	n/a
Majority			888	16.8	n/a
Turnout			8,265	64.0	n/a
	Liberal win

General Election 1886: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Hare Pickersgill	2,550	56.0	-2.4
	Conservative	John Evans Freke Aylmer	2,001	44.0	+2.4
Majority			549	12.0	-4.8
Turnout			8,265	55.1	-8.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.4

Election in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Hare Pickersgill	3,206	59.6	+3.6
	Conservative	Thomas Benskin	2,171	40.4	-3.6
Majority			1,035	19.2	+7.2
Turnout			7,821	68.8	+13.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	+3.6

General Election 1895: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Hare Pickersgill	2,603	52.8	-6.8
	Conservative	William Arnold Statham	2,324	47.2	+6.8
Majority			279	5.6	-13.6
Turnout			7,855	62.7	-6.1
	Liberal hold		Swing	-6.8

Election in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Forde Ridley	2,862	53.2	+6.0
	Liberal	Edward Hare Pickersgill	2,514	46.8	-6.0
Majority			348	6.4	12.0
Turnout			8,128	66.1	+3.4
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+6.0

General Election 1906: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Hare Pickersgill	3,542	63.2	+16.4
	Conservative	Samuel Forde Ridley	2,064	36.8	-16.4
Majority			1,478	26.4	32.8
Turnout			7,262	77.2	+11.1
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+16.4

Election in the 1910s

E.H. Pickersgill

General Election January 1910: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Hare Pickersgill	3,328	58.6	-4.6
	Conservative	Eric Alfred Hoffgaard	2,350	41.4	+4.6
Majority			978	17.2	-9.2
Turnout				79.9	+1.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	-4.6

General Election December 1910: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Hare Pickersgill	2,768	57.0	-1.6
	Conservative	Eric Alfred Hoffgaard	2,086	43.0	+1.6
Majority			682	14.0	-3.2
Turnout				68.3	-11.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	-1.6

Masterman

Bethnal Green South West by-election, 1911
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman	2,745	50.4	-6.6
	Conservative	Eric Alfred Hoffgaard	2,561	47.1	+4.1
	Socialist	John Scurr	134	2.5	n/a
Majority			184	3.3	-10.7
Turnout				76.8	+8.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	-5.3

Bethnal Green South West by-election, 1914
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Matthew Richard Henry Wilson	2,828	47.6	+0.5
	Liberal	Rt.Hon. Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman	2,804	47.1	-3.3
	Socialist	John Scurr	316	5.3	+2.8
Majority			24	0.5	3.8
Turnout				83.5	+6.7
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+1.9

Hugh Meyler

General Election 1918: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Matthew Richard Henry Wilson	4,240	52.3	+4.7
	NFDDSS	Ernest Thurtle	1,941	23.9	n/a
	Liberal	Lieut.-Col. Hugh Mowbray Meyler	1,935	23.8	-23.3
Majority			2,299	28.4	+27.9
Turnout				41.6
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

endorsed by the Coalition Government

Election in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Alfred Harris	5,152	40.7	+12.3
	Communist	Joseph James Vaughan	4,034	31.9	n/a
	Unionist	Sir Mathew Richard Henry Wilson	3,474	27.4	-24.9
Majority			1,118	8.8	37.2
Turnout			21,129	59.9	+18.3
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	n/a

General Election 1923: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Alfred Harris	5,735	43.3	+2.6
	Labour	Joseph James Vaughan	5,251	39.6	+7.7
	Unionist	John Cecil Gerard Leigh	2,267	17.1	-10.3
Majority			484	3.7	-5.1
Turnout			21,320	62.2	+2.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.5

General Election 1924: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Alfred Harris	6,236	42.3	-1.0
	Communist	Joseph James Vaughan	6,024	40.9	+1.3
	Unionist	C.P. Norman	2,467	16.8	-0.3
Majority			212	1.4	-2.3
Turnout			21,522	68.4	+6.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	-1.1

General Election 1929: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Alfred Harris	8,109	45.9	+3.6
	Labour	Christopher John Kelly	6,849	38.7	n/a
	Communist	Robert Dunstan	1,368	7.7	-33.2
	Unionist	Herbert John Malone	1,365	7.7	-9.1
Majority			1,260	7.2	+5.8
Turnout			27,895	64.1	-4.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

Election in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Alfred Harris	10,176	59.6	+13.7
	Labour	W.J. Humphreys	3,923	23.0	-14.3
	Communist	Joseph James Vaughan	2,970	17.4	+9.7
Majority			6,253	36.6	+29.4
Turnout			27,895	61.2	-2.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	+14.0

General Election 1935: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Percy Alfred Harris	9,011	53.1	-6.5
	Labour	George Jeger	7,945	46.9	+23.9
Majority			1,066	6.2	-30.4
Turnout			27,484	61.7	+0.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	-15.2

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Bethnal Green South West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Percy Holman	6,669	57.3	10.4
	Liberal	Sir Percy Alfred Harris	4,213	36.2	-16.9
	Liberal National	O. Howard Leicester	750	6.5	n/a
Majority			2,456	21.1	27.3
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+13.6

References

Bethnal Green Parliamentary Representation at British History online
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)

Historic constituencies in London

1885	Battersea Bermondsey Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brixton Camberwell North Chelsea City of London Clapham Deptford Dulwich Finsbury Central Finsbury East Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North Hackney South Haggerston Hammersmith Hampstead Holborn Hoxton Islington East Islington North Islington South Islington West Kennington Kensington North Kensington South Lambeth North Lewisham Limehouse Marylebone East Marylebone West Mile End Newington West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Rotherhithe Southwark West St George St George's Hanover Square St Pancras East St Pancras North St Pancras South St Pancras West Stepney Strand Walworth Wandsworth Westminster Whitechapel Woolwich

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

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