Kennington (UK Parliament constituency)

Kennington
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Vauxhall
Created from	Lambeth

Kennington was a borough constituency centred on the Kennington district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Kennington in the Metropolitan Board of Works area, showing boundaries used from 1885 to 1918

Kennington in the Parliamentary County of London from 1918 to 1949

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

Members of Parliament

	Member	Party
1885	Robert Gent-Davis	Conservative
1889 by-election	Mark Hanbury Beaufoy	Liberal
1895	Sir Frederick Lucas Cook	Conservative
1906	Sir Stephen Collins	Liberal
1918	Henry George Purchase	Coalition Liberal
1922	Francis Capel Harrison	Conservative
1923	Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams	Labour
1924	George Harvey	Unionist
1929	Leonard Warburton Matters	Labour
1931	Sir George Harvey	Conservative
1939 by-election	John Wilmot	Labour
1945	Charles Gibson	Labour
1950	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Lambeth, Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles William Gibson	12,910	70.2
	Conservative	S.H. Stanley	5,471	29.8
Majority			7,439	40.4
Turnout			29,529	62.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

Kennington by-election, 1939: Lambeth, Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Charles Wilmot	10,715	60.1
	Conservative	A. Kennedy	7,119	39.9
Majority			3,596	20.2
Turnout			43,907	40.6
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1935: Lambeth, Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Harvey	12,401	51.1
	Labour	Leonard Warburton Matters	11,856	48.9
Majority			545	2.2
Turnout			43,583	55.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Lambeth, Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Harvey	18,371	64.3
	Labour	Leonard Warburton Matters	10,188	35.7
Majority			8,183	28.6
Turnout			46,600	61.3
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Leonard Warburton Matters	15,477	55.7	+12.0
	Unionist	George Harvey	12,328	44.3	-12.0
Majority			3,149	11.4	24.0
Turnout			46,290	60.1	-10.2
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+12.0

General Election 1924: Lambeth, Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Harvey	14,898	56.3
	Labour	Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams	11,572	43.7
Majority			3,326	12.6
Turnout			37,629	70.3
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1923: Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams	8,292	39.2	+3.1
	Unionist	Reginald Blair	7,782	36.8	-10.5
	Liberal	Thomas Owen Jacobsen	5,075	24.0	+7.4
Majority			510	2.4	13.6
Turnout			36,729	57.6	-0.8
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+6.8

Harry Gosling

General Election 1922
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Francis Capel Harrison	10,081	47.3
	Labour	Harry Gosling	7,670	36.1
	National Liberal	Henry George Purchase	3,522	16.6
Majority			2,411	11.2
Turnout			36,451	58.4
	Unionist gain from Coalition Liberal		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

Henry Purchase

General Election 1918 Electorate 37,322
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Liberal	Henry George Purchase	4,705	42.4
	Conservative	Mrs. Alice Lucas	3,573	32.2
	Labour	William Glennie	2,817	25.4
Majority			1,132	10.2
Turnout			37,322	29.7
	Coalition Liberal hold		Swing

Stephen Collins

General Election December 1910: Lambeth, Kennington Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stephen Collins	3,565	47.6
	Conservative	Francis Alfred Lucas	3,510	46.9
	Independent Labour	Albert Victor Grayson	408	5.5
Majority			55	0.7
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.0

General Election January 1910: Lambeth, Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stephen Collins	4,246	52.3
	Conservative	Francis Alfred Lucas	3,865	47.7
Majority			381	4.6
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing	-8.0

Elections in the 1900s

Stephen Collins

General Election 1906: Lambeth, Kennington Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stephen Collins	4,639	60.3
	Conservative	Sir Frederick Lucas Cook	3,054	39.7
Majority			1,585	20.6
Turnout			10,382	74.1
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+24.8

General Election 1900: Lambeth, Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Lucas Cook	4,195	64.5
	Liberal	Richard Walter Essex	2,309	35.5
Majority			1,886	29.0
Turnout			10,432	62.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	+7.7

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1895: Lambeth, Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Lucas Cook	3,764	51.8
	Liberal	Mark Hanbury Beaufoy	2,769	38.1
	Independent Liberal	W. Wightman	730	10.1
Majority			995	13.7
Turnout			10,117	71.8
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+11.2

General Election 1892: Lambeth, Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mark Hanbury Beaufoy	3,860	54.3
	Conservative	Ferdinand Faithfull Begg	3,253	45.7
Majority			607	8.6
Turnout			9,348	76.1
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.1

Elections in the 1880s

Kennington by-election, 1889
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mark Hanbury Beaufoy	4,069	54.2
	Conservative	P.B. Beresford-Hope	3,439	45.8
Majority			630	8.4
Turnout			8,920	84.2
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+7.8

General Election 1886: Lambeth, Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Gent-Davis	3,222	53.6
	Liberal	Mark Hanbury Beaufoy	2,792	46.4
Majority			430	7.2
Turnout			8,313	72.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.8

General Election 1885: Lambeth, Kennington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Gent-Davis	3,351	52.6
	Liberal	John O'Connor Power	2,991	46.9
	Social Democratic Federation	John Fielding	32	0.5
Majority			360	5.7
Turnout			8,313	76.7

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 "K" (part 1)

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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