Peckham | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
1885–1997 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Lambeth |
Replaced by | Camberwell & Peckham, Southwark North and Bermondsey |
Peckham was a borough constituency in South London which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Elections were held using the first-past-the-post voting system.
It was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was replaced by the new constituency of Camberwell and Peckham.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the next general election. It will be composed primarily of the majority of the current constituency of Camberwell and Peckham, which is to be abolished.[1]
The constituency was, by the time of its abolition, a safe Labour seat. It was held for the last thirteen years of its existence by Harriet Harman, who went on to become the deputy leader of the Labour Party.
The constituency shared boundaries with the Peckham electoral division for election of councillors to the Greater London Council at elections in 1973, 1977 and 1981.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the re-established constituency will be composed of the following wards of the London Borough of Southwark (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
Faraday; North Walworth; Nunhead & Queen’s Road; Old Kent Road; Peckham; Rye Lane; St. Giles.[3]
The contents reflect the new ward structure which became effective in May 2018. The re-established seat will primarily comprise the majority of the, to be abolished, constituency of Camberwell and Peckham, together with parts of Bermondsey and Old Southwark (mainly North Walworth).
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Miatta Fahnbulleh[4] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harriet Harman | 19,391 | 61.8 | +7.3 | |
Conservative | Christopher M. Frazer | 7,386 | 23.5 | −2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rose E. Colley | 4,331 | 13.8 | −4.1 | |
Workers Revolutionary | Gilbert C. Dacres | 146 | 0.5 | New | |
Corrective | Victor E. Teh | 140 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 12,005 | 38.3 | +9.5 | ||
Turnout | 31,394 | 53.8 | −1.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harriet Harman | 17,965 | 54.5 | +2.9 | |
Conservative | Lillian Ingram | 8,476 | 25.7 | +1.5 | |
Liberal | Richard Shearman | 5,878 | 17.9 | −3.8 | |
Green | Doreen Robinson | 628 | 1.9 | New | |
Majority | 9,489 | 28.8 | +1.4 | ||
Turnout | 32,947 | 55.6 | +1.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harriet Harman | 16,616 | 51.6 | +1.3 | |
Conservative | Tobias Eckersley | 7,792 | 24.2 | +9.8 | |
SDP | Andrew Sawdon | 7,006 | 21.7 | -20.2 | |
National Front | Mary Bailey | 800 | 2.5 | -1.4 | |
Majority | 8,824 | 27.4 | |||
Turnout | 32,214 | 54.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harriet Harman | 11,349 | 50.3 | -9.5 | |
SDP | Dick Taverne | 7,418 | 32.9 | +25.2 | |
Conservative | John Redwood | 2,800 | 12.4 | -15.7 | |
National Front | Martin Webster | 874 | 3.9 | -0.7 | |
Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident | Bill Boaks | 102 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 3,931 | 17.4 | -14.4 | ||
Turnout | 22,543 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -17.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harry Lamborn | 20,364 | 59.85 | ||
Conservative | Andrew Dalton[9] | 9,553 | 28.07 | ||
Liberal | Terence Minahan[9] | 2,607 | 7.66 | ||
National Front | Muriel Roberts[9] | 1,503 | 4.6 | New | |
Majority | 10,811 | 31.78 | |||
Turnout | 32,524 | 57.66 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harry Lamborn | 24,587 | 71.64 | ||
Conservative | Nicholas Baker | 5,760 | 16.78 | ||
Liberal | S.W.F. Saltmarsh | 3,971 | 11.57 | ||
Majority | 18,827 | 54.86 | |||
Turnout | 34,318 | 54.17 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harry Lamborn | 26,116 | 64.31 | ||
Conservative | Nicholas Baker | 8,045 | 19.81 | ||
Liberal | S.W.F. Saltmarsh | 6,446 | 15.87 | New | |
Majority | 18,071 | 44.50 | |||
Turnout | 40,607 | 64.59 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Freda Corbet | 17,071 | 67.47 | ||
Conservative | Ivan Lawrence | 8,232 | 32.53 | ||
Majority | 8,839 | 34.93 | |||
Turnout | 25,303 | 49.80 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Freda Corbet | 20,630 | 72.00 | ||
Conservative | Ivan Lawrence | 8,023 | 28.00 | ||
Majority | 12,607 | 44.00 | |||
Turnout | 28,653 | 55.61 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Freda Corbet | 20,111 | 63.97 | ||
Conservative | Toby Jessel | 11,326 | 36.03 | ||
Majority | 8,785 | 27.94 | |||
Turnout | 31,437 | 58.30 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Freda Corbet | 24,389 | 65.22 | ||
Conservative | Alfred Frank Lockwood | 13,007 | 34.78 | ||
Majority | 11,382 | 30.44 | |||
Turnout | 37,396 | 64.64 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Freda Corbet | 26,315 | 67.71 | ||
Conservative | Dudley Smith | 12,547 | 32.29 | ||
Majority | 13,768 | 35.42 | |||
Turnout | 38,862 | 63.66 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Freda Corbet | 33,702 | 69.84 | ||
Conservative | Cecil Vernon Ford | 14,557 | 30.16 | ||
Majority | 19,146 | 39.68 | |||
Turnout | 48,259 | 75.62 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Freda Corbet | 32,623 | 66.44 | ||
Conservative | Edwin Horace Lee | 13,323 | 27.13 | ||
Liberal | Kenneth George P. Gunnell | 2,267 | 4.62 | New | |
Communist | T. Gibson | 886 | 1.80 | New | |
Majority | 19,300 | 39.31 | |||
Turnout | 49,099 | 77.59 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lewis Silkin | 12,935 | 68.69 | ||
Conservative | R.J.L. O'Connell | 5,896 | 31.31 | ||
Majority | 7,039 | 37.38 | |||
Turnout | 18,831 | 65.52 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lewis Silkin | 13,007 | 50.2 | -1.5 | ||
Conservative | P.G.A. Harvey | 12,907 | 49.8 | -1.5 | ||
Majority | 100 | 0.4 | N/A | |||
Turnout | 25,914 | 56.5 | -8.3 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Beatty | 15,229 | 51.30 | ||
Labour | Lewis Silkin | 14,457 | 48.70 | ||
Majority | 772 | 2.60 | |||
Turnout | 29,686 | 64.78 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Beatty | 19,458 | 58.1 | +26.3 | |
Ind. Labour Party | John Beckett | 11,217 | 33.5 | -15.4 | |
National Labour | E J Titler | 1,442 | 4.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Hubert Beaumont | 1,350 | 4.0 | −44.9 | |
Majority | 8,241 | 24.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 33,467 | 69.7 | +2.7 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Beckett | 15,751 | 48.9 | +2.8 | |
Unionist | Douglas Cooke | 10,246 | 31.8 | -11.1 | |
Liberal | George Ivor Phillips | 6,187 | 19.2 | +8.2 | |
Majority | 5,505 | 17.1 | +13.9 | ||
Turnout | 32,184 | 67.0 | -7.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hugh Dalton | 13,361 | 46.1 | +10.8 | |
Unionist | Martin Archer-Shee | 12,414 | 42.9 | +6.9 | |
Liberal | Joseph Nathaniel Emery | 3,194 | 11.0 | -17.7 | |
Majority | 947 | 3.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,969 | 74.2 | +12.8 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Collingwood Hughes | 8,526 | 36.0 | -8.4 | |
Labour | Walter Ashbridge Chambers | 8,370 | 35.3 | +11.7 | |
Liberal | Charles William Tagg | 6,815 | 28.7 | +23.4 | |
Majority | 156 | 0.7 | -17.0 | ||
Turnout | 23,711 | 61.4 | -4.7 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | -10.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Collingwood Hughes | 11,218 | 44.4 | +15.7 | |
National Liberal | Henry Lesser | 6,739 | 26.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Walter Ashbridge Chambers | 5,964 | 23.6 | +7.5 | |
Liberal | Gerald Spence Tetley | 1,329 | 5.3 | -49.9 | |
Majority | 4,479 | 17.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 25,250 | 66.1 | +23.1 | ||
Unionist gain from National Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Liberal | Albion Richardson | 8,764 | 55.2 | +5.0 |
Ind. Unionist | Collingwood Hughes | 4,550 | 28.7 | -21.1 | |
Labour | Charles Diamond | 2,559 | 16.1 | New | |
Majority | 4,214 | 26.5 | +26.1 | ||
Turnout | 15,873 | 43.0 | -38.1 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | +13.2 | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Albion Richardson | 5,027 | 50.2 | +0.6 | |
Conservative | Henry Gooch | 4,986 | 49.8 | -0.6 | |
Majority | 41 | 0.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 12,341 | 81.1 | +4.6 | ||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +0.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Henry Gooch | 5,330 | 50.4 | +12.8 | |
Liberal | Albion Richardson | 5,247 | 49.6 | -12.8 | |
Majority | 83 | 0.8 | -12.0 | ||
Turnout | 12,341 | 85.7 | +9.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -10.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Henry Gooch | 6,970 | 60.9 | +23.3 | |
Liberal | Thomas Gautrey | 4,476 | 39.1 | -23.3 | |
Majority | 2,494 | 21.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 11,446 | 78.3 | +2.0 | ||
Registered electors | 14,615 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +23.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Clarke | 5,903 | 62.4 | +21.7 | |
Conservative | Frederick Banbury | 3,564 | 37.6 | -21.7 | |
Majority | 2,339 | 12.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,467 | 76.3 | +12.8 | ||
Registered electors | 12,401 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +21.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Banbury | 4,453 | 59.3 | +2.9 | |
Liberal | Fitzroy Hemphill | 3,061 | 40.7 | -2.9 | |
Majority | 1,392 | 18.6 | +5.8 | ||
Turnout | 7,514 | 63.5 | -6.5 | ||
Registered electors | 11,835 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Banbury | 4,495 | 56.4 | +5.8 | |
Liberal | Charles Clements | 3,472 | 43.6 | -4.6 | |
Majority | 1,023 | 12.8 | +10.4 | ||
Turnout | 7,967 | 70.0 | 0.0 | ||
Registered electors | 11,388 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Banbury | 3,847 | 50.6 | -5.5 | |
Liberal | Edwin Jones | 3,664 | 48.2 | +4.3 | |
Independent Labour | Ben Ellis | 95 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 183 | 2.4 | -9.8 | ||
Turnout | 7,606 | 70.0 | +6.9 | ||
Registered electors | 10,861 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -4.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur A. Baumann | 3,439 | 56.1 | +7.1 | |
Liberal | William Willis | 2,688 | 43.9 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 751 | 12.2 | +5.8 | ||
Turnout | 6,127 | 63.1 | -7.6 | ||
Registered electors | 9,713 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur A. Baumann | 3,362 | 49.0 | ||
Liberal | William Willis | 2,929 | 42.6 | ||
Independent Liberal | Edward Dresser Rogers | 580 | 8.4 | ||
Majority | 433 | 6.4 | |||
Turnout | 6,871 | 70.7 | |||
Registered electors | 9,713 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |