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Southwark South East (UK Parliament constituency)

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1

Replaced by
  
Walworth, Southwark

Created from
  
Walworth

Southwark South East (UK Parliament constituency)

Southwark (Br [ˈsʌðɨk]) 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.

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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.

Elections in the 1910s

  • endorsed by the Coalition Government.
  • Elections in the 1930s

    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
  • Conservative:
  • References

    Southwark South East (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia