Bermondsey (London County Council constituency)

Former London County Council constituency

Bermondsey
Former constituency for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1889; 1949
Abolished	1919; 1965
Member(s)	2 (1889 to 1919) 3 (1949 to 1965)
Created from	Bermondsey West and Rotherhithe
Replaced by	Bermondsey West and Rotherhithe

Bermondsey was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1889 and 1919, and again between 1949 and the council's abolition, in 1965. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name.

Councillors

Year	Name		Name
1889	George Cooper	Progressive	Joseph Thornton	Progressive
1899	George Cooper	Progressive	Arthur Acland Allen	Progressive
1906	Alfred Salter	Progressive	Arthur Acland Allen	Progressive
1910	William Henry Ecroyd	Progressive	Charles Russell	Progressive
1913	William Henry Ecroyd	Progressive	Montague Shearman, Jr	Progressive

Year	Name		Name		Name
1949	James Allan Gillison	Labour	Reg Goodwin	Labour	Alfred John Kemp	Labour
1952	John R. Thomas	Labour	Reg Goodwin	Labour
1961	John R. Thomas	Labour	Albert Samuels	Labour

Election results

1889 to 1919

1889 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	George Cooper	2,602
Progressive	Joseph Thornton	2,401
Moderate	Hugh Colin Smith	1,319
Moderate	Thomas Brooksbank	1,280
Independent	William Shepherd	556
Progressive win (new seat)
Progressive win (new seat)

1892 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	George Cooper	3,181
Progressive	Joseph Thornton	3,052
Moderate	Horace Sedger	1,995
Moderate	John Dumphreys	1,830
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1895 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	George Cooper	2,703
Progressive	Joseph Thornton	2,699
Moderate	A. Beresford	1,682
Moderate	V. J. Hussey Walsh	1,668
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1898 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	George Cooper	2,977
Progressive	Joseph Thornton	2,843
Moderate	W. W. Tyler	2,028
Moderate	Forbes St John Morrow	1,993
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1901 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	George Cooper	3,147	30.4	+0.2
Progressive	Arthur Acland Allen	3,096	29.9	+1.0
Conservative	Thomas Cox	2,094	20.2	−0.4
Conservative	A. Layman	2,026	19.5	−0.8
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing	+0.6

1904 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	George Cooper	3,221
Progressive	Arthur Acland Allen	3,215
Conservative	T. H. Flood	2,153
Conservative	F. R. Anderton	2,085
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1907 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive	Alfred Salter	4,197
Progressive	Arthur Acland Allen	4,195
Municipal Reform	J. F. Vesey FitzGerald	3,474
Municipal Reform	J. K. Foster	3,389
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1910 London County Council election: Bermondsey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	Charles Russell	3,288	24.5
	Progressive	William Henry Ecroyd	3,276	24.4
	Municipal Reform	Walter Somerville	2,509	18.7
	Municipal Reform	Joseph Ricardo	2,470	18.4
	Labour	Alfred Salter	1,876	14.0
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1913 London County Council election: Bermondsey
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	William Henry Ecroyd	2,951
	Progressive	Montague Shearman	2,820
	Municipal Reform	E. Stickland	2,462
	Municipal Reform	John Swiney	2,409
	Labour	Alfred Salter	1,632
	Labour	Charles Ammon	1,374
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1949 to 1965

1949 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	James Allan Gillison	12,551
Labour	Reg Goodwin	12,149
Labour	Alfred John Kemp	12,097
Conservative	W. B. J. Pemberton	4,045
Conservative	A. P. Davis	3,842
Conservative	C. Martin	3,824
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

1952 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Alfred John Kemp	13,149
Labour	Reg Goodwin	12,985
Labour	John R. Thomas	12,563
Conservative	W. B. J. Pemberton	2,035
Conservative	C. F. Bassett	1,980
Conservative	D. Willmott	1,811
Labour hold		Swing
Labour hold		Swing
Labour hold		Swing

1955 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Alfred John Kemp	7,526
Labour	Reg Goodwin	7,098
Labour	John R. Thomas	7,093
Conservative	J. Murray	1,644
Conservative	H. Oliver	1,319
Conservative	E. E. Simpkins	1,303
Labour hold		Swing
Labour hold		Swing
Labour hold		Swing

1958 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Alfred John Kemp	8,042
Labour	Reg Goodwin	7,725
Labour	John R. Thomas	7,650
Conservative	H. M. L. Morton	774
Conservative	H. W. Aplin	673
Conservative	R. G. Field	600
Ind. Labour Party	E. R. Gomme	362
Ind. Labour Party	G. F. Bond	300
Ind. Labour Party	A. Collyer	284
Labour hold		Swing
Labour hold		Swing
Labour hold		Swing

1961 London County Council election: Bermondsey
	Candidate	Votes
Labour	Alfred John Kemp	9,404
Labour	John R. Thomas	9,134
Labour	Albert Samuels	8,814
Conservative	N. G. Wallace	1,506
Conservative	J. MacN. Porter	1,463
Conservative	G. E. Collyer	1,275
Ind. Labour Party	A. Collyer	724
Ind. Labour Party	E. R. Gomme	541
Ind. Labour Party	Frank Ridley	368
Labour hold		Swing
Labour hold		Swing
Labour hold		Swing

References

^ "The London County Council election". The Times. 7 March 1892.
"The London County Council election". The Times. 4 March 1895.
"London County Council election: results of the polling". The Times. 26 February 1898.
"London County Council Election." Times 4 Mar. 1901: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 22 Sept. 2016.
"London County Council election". The Times. 7 March 1904.
"London County Council election: great Municipal Reform victory". The Times. 4 March 1907.
"London County Council Election." Times 7 Mar. 1910: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 May 2016.
London Municipal Notes, 1913
"LCC Polling". The Times. 9 April 1949.
"London County Council: Election results". The Times. 5 April 1952.
"LCC results: Conservatives make headway". The Times. 25 April 1955.
"Complete results of London County Council elections". The Times. 18 April 1958.
"London County Council polling results". The Times. 14 April 1961.

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Elections	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961
Members	Chairmen Members 1889-1919 Members 1919-1937 Members 1937-1949 Members 1949-1965
Constituencies (1889–1919)	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 St George's Hanover Square St George St Pancras East St Pancras North St Pancras South St Pancras West Southwark West Stepney Strand Walworth Wandsworth Westminster Whitechapel Woolwich
Constituencies (1919–1949)	Balham and Tooting Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey West Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brixton Camberwell North Camberwell North West Chelsea City of London Clapham Deptford Dulwich 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
Constituencies (1949–1964)	Barons Court (1955–1964) Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham (1955–1965) Fulham East (1949–1955) Fulham West (1949–1955) Greenwich Hackney Central (1955–1964) Hackney South (1949–1955) Hammersmith North Hammersmith South (1949–1955) 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
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