Holborn_and_St_Pancras_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Holborn and St Pancras South
Holborn and St Pancras South
Former Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
	Holborn & St Pancras South in London 1950-74
County	1950–1965: County of London; 1965–1983: Greater London
1950–1983
Seats	One
Created from	Holborn, St Pancras South East and St Pancras South West
Replaced by	Holborn & St Pancras

Holborn and St Pancras South (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1950–1983

Holborn and St Pancras South was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holborn district of Central 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.

Quick Facts County, 1950–1983 ...

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Holborn and St Pancras.

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Election		Member	Party
	1950	Santo Jeger	Labour
	1953 by-election	Lena Jeger	Labour
	1959	Geoffrey Johnson-Smith	Conservative
	1964	Lena Jeger	Labour
	1979	Frank Dobson	Labour
1983		constituency abolished: see Holborn and St Pancras

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Santo Jeger	19,223	48.51
	Conservative	Peter John Feilding Chapman-Walker	17,993	45.41
	Liberal	Hilda Buckmaster	2,411	6.08
Majority			1,230	3.10
Turnout			39,627	72.10
	Labour win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Santo Jeger	20,332	50.18
	Conservative	Louis Gluckstein	18,573	45.84
	Liberal	Isaac Joseph Hyam	1,616	3.99
Majority			1,759	4.34
Turnout			40,521	73.70
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lena Jeger	15,784	52.11	+1.93
	Conservative	William Timothy Donovan	13,808	45.59	-0.25
	Liberal	Isaac Joseph Hyam	695	2.29	-1.70
Majority			1,976	6.52	+2.18
Turnout			30,287
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Lena Jeger	17,126	49.62
	Conservative	William Timothy Donovan	16,195	46.92
	Liberal	Isaac Joseph Hyam	1,193	3.46
Majority			931	2.70
Turnout			34,514	67.30
	Labour hold		Swing

Holborn and St Pancras South (UK Parliament constituency)

Holborn and St Pancras South
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Holborn & St Pancras South in London 1950-74
County	1950–1965: County of London 1965–1983: Greater London
1950–1983
Seats	One
Created from	Holborn, St Pancras South East and St Pancras South West
Replaced by	Holborn & St Pancras

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Geoffrey Johnson-Smith	17,065	50.98
	Labour	Lena Jeger	16,409	49.02
Majority			656	1.96	N/A
Turnout			33,474	69.01
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lena Jeger	15,873	54.33
	Conservative	Geoffrey Johnson-Smith	13,117	44.90
	Independent	Ali Mohammad Bongo Abbas	226	0.77	New
Majority			2,756	9.43	N/A
Turnout			29,216	67.52
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Lena Jeger	16,128	59.49
	Conservative	Julian Michael Edmund Byng	10,982	40.51
Majority			5,146	19.98
Turnout			27,110	65.54
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Lena Jeger	12,448	55.15
	Conservative	Julian Michael Edmund Byng	10,125	44.85
Majority			2,323	10.30
Turnout			22,573
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lena Jeger	12,414	49.31
	Conservative	Robert Frederick James Parsons	8,223	32.54
	Liberal	Thomas Hibbert	4,632	18.33	New
Majority			4,191	16.77
Turnout			25,269	64.81
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Lena Jeger	11,790	55.94
	Conservative	Robert Frederick James Parsons	6,349	30.12
	Liberal	Frederick Michael John Lee	2,938	13.94
Majority			5,441	25.82
Turnout			21,077	53.81
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Dobson	12,026	49.31
	Conservative	Robert Key	9,703	39.79
	Liberal	Thomas Hibbert	2,190	8.98
	National Front	Frank Theobald^[2]	334	1.37	New
	Workers Revolutionary	Peter Farrell^[2]	134	0.55	New
Majority			2,323	9.52
Turnout			12,361	60.40
	Labour hold		Swing