Deptford (UK Parliament constituency)

Deptford
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–February 1974
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Lewisham Deptford
Created from	Greenwich

Deptford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Deptford district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Deptford in the Metropolitan Board of Works area, showing boundaries used 1885-1918

Deptford in the Parliamentary County of London 1918-49

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

Deptford in the Parliamentary County of London 1950-74

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Lewisham Deptford.

Boundaries

1918-1974: The Metropolitan Borough of Deptford.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[1]	Party
	1885	William John Evelyn	Conservative
	1888 by-election	Charles John Darling, later Baron Darling	Conservative
	1897 by-election	Arthur Henry Aylmer Morton	Conservative
	1906	Charles William Bowerman	Labour
	1931	Denis Augustine Hanley	Conservative
	1935	Walter Henry Green	Labour
	1945	John Wilmot	Labour
	1950	Jack Cooper	Labour
	1951	Sir Leslie Plummer	Labour
	1963 by-election	John Silkin	Labour
Feb 1974		constituency abolished: see Lewisham Deptford

Election results

Election in the 1970s

General Election 18 June 1970: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Hon. John Ernest Silkin	14,672	62.96
	Conservative	Michael Lewis Brotherton	7,355	31.56
	National Front	Martin Vaux	1,277	5.48
Majority			7,317	31.40
Turnout			23,304	54.67
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 31 March 1966: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Hon. John Ernest Silkin	17,983	66.80
	Conservative	John R Giles	7,033	26.12
	British National	Gerald Rowe	1,906	7.08
Majority			10,950	40.67
Turnout				60.27
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 15 October 1964: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Silkin	17,676	62.44
	Conservative	Murray M Leask	8,248	29.13
	Independent	Colin M H Atkins	2,386	8.43
Majority			9,428	33.30
Turnout				60.08
	Labour hold		Swing

Deptford by-election, 1963: Deptford ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Silkin	12,209	58.2
	Liberal	D J Penwarden	4,726	22.5
	Conservative	John D Brimacombe	4,023	19.2
Majority			7,483	35.7
Turnout			20,958
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 8 October 1959: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Sir Leslie Arthur Plummer	21,226	61.95
	Conservative	JD Brimacombe	13,038	38.05
Majority			8,188	23.90
Turnout				69.34
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 26 May 1955: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Sir Leslie Arthur Plummer	23,925	65.73
	Conservative	Miss Irene Dowling	12,472	34.27
Majority			11,453	31.47
Turnout				69.62
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 25 October 1951:
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Sir Leslie Arthur Plummer	28,878	65.17
	Conservative	Miss Irene Dowling	15,431	34.83
Majority			13,447	30.35
Turnout				80.27
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 23 February 1950: Deptford^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jack Cooper	28,230	63.07
	Conservative	Geoffrey F. Sarjeant	13,330	29.78
	Liberal	Edward Isaac Miller	2,637	5.89
	Communist	Leslie Francis Stannard	562	1.26
Majority			14,900	33.29
Turnout				81.61
	Labour hold		Swing

Election in the 1940s

General Election 5 to 19 July 1945 Electorate 44,078
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	John Charles Wilmot	22,313
	Conservative	Sqdn-Ldr. E Cuddon	8,059
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Election in the 1930s

General Election 14 November 1935: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Walter Henry Green	27,021	57.31
	Conservative	Sir Malcolm Campbell	20,129	42.69
Majority			6,892	14.62
Turnout
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 27 October 1931: Deptford
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	Denis Augustine Hanley
	Labour	Rt Hon. Charles William Bowerman
Majority
Turnout

Election in the 1920s

General Election 30 May 1929: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Rt Hon. Charles William Bowerman	26,848	55.2
	Unionist	Ernest Everard Gates	14,832	30.5
	Liberal	H. Charles Bevan	6,935	14.3	n/a
Majority			12,016	24.7
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 29 October 1924
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Rt Hon. Charles William Bowerman	21,903
	Unionist	James Hargreaves	18,279
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 6 December 1923: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Rt Hon. Charles William Bowerman	21,576
	Unionist	Marshall James Pike	12,666
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 15 November 1922: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Rt Hon. Charles William Bowerman	18,512
	Unionist	Marshall James Pike	16,687
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 14 December 1918: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Rt Hon. Charles William Bowerman	14,073
	Conservative	John Theodore Prestige	9,711
	NFDDSS	F. A. Rumsey	2,106	8.1
Majority			51,611
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Charles William Bowerman	6,357	51.4	-0.6
	Conservative	Stuart Auchinloss Coats	5,999	48.6	0.6
Majority			358
Turnout			15,159	81.5
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election January 1910: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Charles William Bowerman	6,880	52.0	-0.2
	Conservative	Stuart Auchinloss Coats	6,358	48.0	6.3
Majority			522
Turnout			15,159	87.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

Vivian

General Election 1906: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Charles William Bowerman	6,236	52.2	N/A
	Conservative	Arthur Henry Aylmer Morton	4,977	41.7	-20.4
	Liberal	Herbert Vivian	726	6.1
Majority			1,259
Turnout			15,397	77.5
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1900: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Arthur Henry Aylmer Morton	6,236	62.1	10.5
	Lib-Lab	Ben Jones	3,806	37.9	-10.5
Majority			2,430
Turnout			15,000	66.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

Deptford by-election, 1897
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Arthur Henry Aylmer Morton	5,317	51.6	-4.5
	Liberal	John Williams Benn	4,993	48.4	4.5
Majority			324
Turnout			13,868	74.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1895: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Charles John Darling	5,654	56.1	3.3
	Liberal	Thomas James Macnamara	4,425	43.9	-3.3
Majority			1,229
Turnout			13,815	73.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1892: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Charles John Darling	5,298	52.8	1.2
	Liberal	Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice	4,733	47.2	-1.2
Majority			565
Turnout			13,066	76.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1880s

Deptford by-election, 1888
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Charles John Darling	4,345	51.6	-3.1
	Liberal	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	4,070	48.4	3.1
Majority			275
Turnout			10,473	80.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1886: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	William John Evelyn	3,682	54.7	2.2
	Liberal	Lalmohun Ghose	3,055	45.3	-2.2
Majority			627
Turnout			9,371	71.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1885: Deptford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William John Evelyn	3,927	52.5
	Liberal	Lalmohun Ghose	3,560	47.5
Majority			367
Turnout			9,371	79.9
	Conservative gain from new seat		Swing

References

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 1)
↑ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/by_elections/63.html%23luton&date=2009-10-25+19:14:28
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973, FWS Craig

British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
Debrett’s Illustrated Heraldic and Biographical House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
Debrett’s House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1901
Debrett’s House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1918

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

1950	Barnet Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South 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 Streatham Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

1955	Barnet Barons Court Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hammersmith North 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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