Southwark South East (UK Parliament constituency)

Southwark South East
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Southwark
Created from	Walworth

Southwark (Br [ˈsʌðɨk])^[1] South East was a parliamentary constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark, in South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Southwark South East in the Parliamentary County of London, 1918-49

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

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Southwark constituency.

The constituency comprised the wards of St. George, St. John and St. Peter. It covered most of East Walworth and Faraday wards, together with a sliver of Grange ward, in the modern day London Borough of Southwark.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	James Arthur Dawes	Coalition Liberal
	1921 by-election	Thomas Ellis Naylor	Labour
	1922	Maurice Alexander	National Liberal
	1923	Thomas Ellis Naylor	Labour
	1931	Evelyn George Harcourt Powell	Conservative
	1935	Thomas Ellis Naylor	Labour
	1950	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

J.A. Dawes

General Election 1918: Southwark South East^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	James Arthur Dawes	7,208	72.6	n/a
	Labour	Thomas Ellis Naylor	2,718	27.4	n/a
Majority			4,490	45.2	n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Liberal win

• endorsed by the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s

Southwark South East by-election, 1921

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas Ellis Naylor	6,561	57.0	29.6
	Coalition Liberal	Thomas Owen Jacobsen	2,636	22.9	-49.7
	Independent Unionist	Horace Louis Petit Boot	2,307	20.1	N/A
Majority			3,925	34.1	N/A
Turnout			11,504	38.5	-6.7
	Labour gain from Coalition Liberal		Swing	39.6

M. Alexander

General Election 1922: Southwark South East ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	National Liberal	Maurice Alexander	10,014	56.4
	Labour	Thomas Ellis Naylor	7,734	43.6
Majority			2,280	12.8
Turnout				58.2
	National Liberal gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1923: Southwark South East ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas Ellis Naylor	9,374	54.3	+10.7
	Liberal	Maurice Alexander	7,884	45.7	-10.7
Majority			1,490	8.6	21.4
Turnout				55.7	-2.5
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+10.7

General Election 1924: Southwark South East ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas Ellis Naylor	11,635	54.3
	Unionist	Geoffrey William Lloyd	7,387	34.5
	Liberal	Elsie Cawson Elias	2,388	11.2
Majority			4,248	19.8
Turnout				68.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Southwark South East ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas Ellis Naylor	13,527	60.4	+6.1
	Liberal	William John Squire	4,766	21.3	+10.1
	Unionist	Evelyn George Harcourt Powell	4,086	18.3	-16.2
Majority			8,761	39.1	+19.3
Turnout				58.9	-9.2
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.0

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Southwark South East^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Evelyn George Harcourt Powell	11,063	53.3
	Labour	Thomas Ellis Naylor	9,678	46.7
Majority			1,385	6.7
Turnout			20,741	54.1
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Southwark South East^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas Ellis Naylor	11,942	63.2
	Conservative	Evelyn George Harcourt Powell	6,945	36.8
Majority			4,997	26.5
Turnout			18,887	53.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		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;

• Labour: Thomas Ellis Naylor^[9]
• Conservative:

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Southwark South East^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas Ellis Naylor	9,599	76.9
	Conservative	James Mantle Greenwood	2,881	23.1
Majority			6,718	53.8
Turnout				60.8
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. "Southwark", in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World (1952), New York: Columbia University Press.
2. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
3. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
4. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
5. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
6. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
7. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
8. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
9. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
10. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 50. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.