St Pancras South West (UK Parliament constituency)

St Pancras South West
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Holborn and St Pancras South and St Pancras North
Created from	St Pancras South and St Pancras West

St. Pancras South West was a 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.

Boundaries

St Pancras SW in the County of London

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

The constituency comprised the south western part of the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras. It consisted of wards Four, Five and Seven, as they existed in 1918.

In 1950 the constituency was split between Holborn and St Pancras South (wards Five and Seven) and St Pancras North (ward Four).

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Richard Whieldon Barnett	Coalition Conservative
	1929	William Carter	Labour
	1931	Sir George Mitcheson	Conservative
	1945	Haydn Davies	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

Comyns Carr

General Election 1918: St Pancras South West[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maj. Richard Whieldon Barnett	7,119	58.6	n/a
	Liberal	Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr	4,679	38.5	n/a
	Independent	Joseph Charles Sherrott	352	2.9	n/a
Majority			2,440	20.1	n/a
Turnout				45.2	n/a
	Unionist win

• endorsed by the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: St Pancras South West[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Richard Whieldon Barnett	8,289	49.4
	Liberal	Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr	5,533	33.0
	Labour	George Horne	2,947	17.6	n/a
Majority			2,756	16.4
Turnout				57.9	+12.7
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1923: St Pancras South West [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Richard Whieldon Barnett	7,097	42.0	-7.4
	Labour	George Horne	5,321	31.4	+13.8
	Liberal	William Charles Pilley	4,505	26.6	-6.4
Majority			1,776	10.6	-5.8
Turnout				56.9	-1.0
	Unionist hold		Swing	-10.6

General Election 1924: St Pancras South West[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Richard Whieldon Barnett	11,877	57.9
	Labour	Ernest Nathaniel Bennett	8,630	42.1
Majority			3,247	15.8	+5.2
Turnout				66.9
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: St Pancras South West[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Carter	12,010	45.6	+3.5
	Unionist	William Patrick Spens	10,231	38.8	-19.1
	Liberal	Haydn Davies	4,103	15.6	n/a
Majority			1,779	6.8	22.6
Turnout				62.0	-4.9
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+11.3

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: St Pancras South West[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Gibson Mitcheson	18,737	71.4	+25.8
	Labour	William Carter	7,514	28.6
Majority			11,223	42.8
Turnout			26,251	62.5
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: St Pancras South West[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Gibson Mitcheson	13,035	55.0
	Labour	James Edmond Sears	10,670	45.0
Majority			2,365	10.0
Turnout			23,705	59.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Sir George Gibson Mitcheson
• Labour: Haydn Davies^[2]

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: St Pancras South West[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Haydn Davies	9,533	61.9
	Conservative	Lionel Frederick Heald	5,862	38.1
Majority			3,671	23.8
Turnout				61.2
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

References

1. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
2. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939

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