Camberwell North West (UK Parliament constituency)

Camberwell North West
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Camberwell North West in London 1918-49
County	County of London
1918–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Peckham
Created from	Camberwell North and Dulwich

Camberwell North West was a borough constituency located in the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell, in 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 voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

The Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell wards of Addington, Lyndhurst, St Giles, Town Hall, and West.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Thomas James McNamara	Coalition Liberal
	1922		National Liberal
	1923		Liberal
	1924	Edward Campbell	Unionist
	1929	Hyacinth Morgan	Labour
	1931	James Dales Cassels	Conservative
	1935	Oscar Guest	Conservative
	1945	Freda Corbet	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Election in the 1910s

T.J. Macnamara

General Election 1918: Camberwell North West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Thomas James Macnamara	6,986	63.9	n/a
	Unionist	Walter Guy Wulf Radford	3,947	36.1	n/a
Majority			3,039	27.8	n/a
Turnout				36.5	n/a
	Liberal win

• endorsed by Coalition Government

Election in the 1920s

Camberwell North West by-election, 1920
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Liberal	Rt Hon. Thomas James Macnamara	6,618	44.9	n/a
	Labour	Arabella Susan Lawrence	4,733	32.1	n/a
	Liberal	John Charles Carroll	3,386	23.0	n/a
Majority			1,885	12.8	-15.0
Turnout				47.9	+11.4
	Coalition Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

Hobbis Harris

General Election 1922: Camberwell North West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Rt Hon. Thomas James Macnamara	8,339	49.6	+4.7
	Labour	Hyacinth Bernard Morgan	5,182	30.9	-1.2
	Liberal	John Hobbis Harris	3,270	19.5	-3.5
Majority			3,157	18.7	+5.9
Turnout				63.8	+15.9
	National Liberal hold		Swing	+3.0

General Election 1923: Camberwell North West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Thomas James Macnamara	6,843	34.8	n/a
	Labour	Hyacinth Bernard Morgan	6,763	34.4	+3.5
	Unionist	Edward Taswell Campbell	6,045	30.8	n/a
Majority			80	0.4	-18.3
Turnout				61.9	-1.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1924: Camberwell North West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Edward Taswell Campbell	9,626	39.8	+9.0
	Labour	Hyacinth Bernard Morgan	9,432	39.0	+4.6
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Thomas James Macnamara	5,138	21.2	-13.6
Majority			194	0.8	1.2
Turnout				74.8	+12.9
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	n/a

General Election 1929: Camberwell North-West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hyacinth Bernard Morgan	12,213	44.2	+5.2
	Unionist	Edward Taswell Campbell	9,808	35.6	-4.2
	Liberal	Henry Harcourt	5,559	20.2	-1.0
Majority			2,405	8.6	9.4
Turnout
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+4.7

Election in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Camberwell North West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Dales Cassels	17,581	66.9	+31.3
	Labour	Hector Samuel James Hughes	8,693	33.1	-11.1
Majority				33.8	42.5
Turnout			8,888	63.8
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+21.3

General Election 1935: Camberwell North West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Oscar Montague Guest	11,744	48.6	-18.3
	Labour	Hector Samuel James Hughes	10,931	45.3	+12.2
	Liberal	Henry James Edwards	1,462	6.1	n/a
Majority			813	3.3	-30.5
Turnout				59.3	-14.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	-15.2

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Camberwell North West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Freda Künzlen Corbet	12,251	69.6	+24.3
	Conservative	L. Avon May	5,346	30.4	-18.2
Majority			6,905	39.2	42.5
Turnout				65.2	+5.9
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+21.2

See also

• Camberwell North (UK Parliament constituency)
• Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell

References

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)