St Pancras South East (UK Parliament constituency)

St Pancras South East
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Replaced by	Holborn and St Pancras South and St Pancras North
Created from	St Pancras South

St. Pancras South East was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was created in 1918 by the division of St Pancras South into South East and South West divisions, and abolished in 1950.

Boundaries

St Pancras South East in London 1918-50

1918-1950: The Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras wards of six and eight, and the part of ward number three lying to the south and east of a line running along the middle of Camden Road from a point where that road is intersected by the eastern boundary of the metropolitan borough to the point where that road crosses the Regent's Canal and thence westward along the middle of that canal to the western boundary of Ward number three.

In 1950 the constituency was split between Holborn and St Pancras South (wards Six and Eight) and St Pancras North (ward Three).

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [1]	Party
	1918	John Hopkins	Unionist
	1923	Herbert George Romeril	Labour
	1924	John Hopkins	Unionist
	1929	Herbert George Romeril	Labour
	1931	Sir Alfred Beit	Conservative
	1945	Santo Jeger	Labour
	1950	constituency abolished

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 14 December 1918: St Pancras South-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	John Wells Wainwright Hopkins	4,884	37.8
	Liberal	Richard Leopold Reiss	3,594	27.8
	Independent Liberal	Percy Adams	2,263	17.5
	Labour	Herbert George Romeril	2,189	16.9
Majority			1,290	10.0
Turnout				47.2
	Unionist hold		Swing

• Some records describe Adams as an Independent. Adams, Hopkins and Reiss all supported the Coalition Government. Coalition Government endorsement was initially issued to Reiss but subsequently withdrawn.

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 15 November 1922

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	John Wells Wainwright Hopkins	8,753	47.5
	Labour	Herbert George Romeril	5,609	30.5
	Liberal	Leonard Benjamin Franklin	4,053	22.0
Majority			3,144	17.0
Turnout				60.1

General Election 6 December 1923: St Pancras South East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Herbert George Romeril	7,866	41.6	+11.1
	Unionist	John Wells Wainwright Hopkins	7,174	37.9	-9.6
	Liberal	George Swaffield	3,890	20.5	-1.5
Majority			692	3.7	20.7
Turnout
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+10.3

General Election 29 October 1924

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	John Wells Wainwright Hopkins	12,538	54.5
	Labour	Herbert George Romeril	10,463	45.5
Majority			2,075	9.0
Turnout				72.6

General Election 30 May 1929: St Pancras South East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Herbert George Romeril	13,173	47.9	+2.4
	Unionist	Alfred Lane Beit	10,543	38.3	-16.2
	Liberal	Elizabeth Edwardes	3,798	13.8	n/a
Majority			2,630	9.6	18.6
Turnout				66.8	-5.8
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+9.3

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 27 October 1931: St Pancras South East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Alfred Lane Beit	18,064	66.7
	Labour	Herbert George Romeril	8,684	32.1
	Communist	Shaukat Usmani	332	1.2
Majority			9,380	34.6
Turnout				65.5
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 14 November 1935: St Pancras South East^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Alfred Lane Beit	11,976	51.0
	Labour	Santo Wayburn Jeger	10,340	44.0
	Liberal	Laurence George Bowman	1,181	5.0
Majority			1,636	7.0
Turnout			23,497	60.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: St Pancras South East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Santo Wayburn Jeger	10,030	59.6
	Conservative	Sir Alfred Lane Beit	5,320	31.6
	Liberal	Mrs Audrey Blackman	1,474	8.8
Majority			4,710	28.0
Turnout				64.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)
2. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.