Holborn and St Pancras South (UK Parliament constituency)

Holborn and St Pancras South was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holborn district of Central London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Holborn and St Pancras.

Boundaries

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

1950-1974: The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn; and wards five, six, seven and eight of the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras.

1974-1983: The London Borough of Camden wards of Bloomsbury, Euston, Holborn, King's Cross, Regent's Park, and St Pancras.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1950	Santo Jeger	Labour
	1953 by-election	Lena Jeger	Labour
	1959	Geoffrey Johnson Smith	Conservative
	1964	Lena Jeger	Labour
	1979	Frank Dobson	Labour
1983		constituency abolished: see Holborn and St Pancras

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Santo Wayburn Jeger	19,223	48.51
	Conservative	Peter John Feilding Chapman-Walker	17,993	45.41
	Liberal	Hilda Mary Adela Buckmaster	2,411	6.08
Majority			1,230	3.10
Turnout				72.10
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Santo Wayburn Jeger	20,332	50.18
	Conservative	Louis Halle Gluckstein	18,573	45.84
	Liberal	Isaac Joseph Hyam	1,616	3.99
Majority			1,759	4.34
Turnout				73.70
	Labour hold		Swing

Holborn and St Pancras South by-election, 1953

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lena May Jeger	15,784
	Conservative	William Timothy Donovan	13,808
	Liberal	Isaac Joseph Hyam	695
Majority			1,976
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lena May Jeger	17,126	49.62
	Conservative	William Timothy Donovan	16,195	46.92
	Liberal	Isaac Joseph Hyam	1,193	3.46
Majority			931	2.70
Turnout				67.30
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Geoffrey Johnson Smith	17,065	50.98
	Labour	Lena May Jeger	16,409	49.02
Majority			656	1.96
Turnout				69.01
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lena May Jeger	15,873	54.33
	Conservative	Geoffrey Johnson Smith	13,117	44.90
	Independent	Ali Mohammad Bongo Abbas	226	0.77
Majority			2,756	9.43
Turnout				67.52
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1966: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lena May Jeger	16,128	59.49
	Conservative	Julian Michael Edmund Byng	10,982	40.51
Majority			5,146	19.98
Turnout				65.54
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lena May Jeger	12,448	55.15
	Conservative	Julian Michael Edmund Byng	10,125	44.85
Majority			2,323	10.29
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lena May Jeger	12,414	49.31
	Conservative	Robert Frederick James Parsons	8,223	32.54
	Liberal	Thomas Hibbert	4,632	18.33
Majority			4,191	16.59
Turnout				64.81
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lena May Jeger	11,790	55.94
	Conservative	Robert Frederick James Parsons	6,349	30.12
	Liberal	Frederick Michael John Lee	2,938	13.94
Majority			5,441	25.81
Turnout				53.81
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Holborn and St. Pancras South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Gordon Dobson	12,026	49.31
	Conservative	Simon Robert Key	9,703	39.79
	Liberal	Thomas Hibbert	2,190	8.98
	National Front	F Theobald	334	1.37
	Workers Revolutionary	P Farrell	134	0.55
Majority			2,323	9.53
Turnout				60.40
	Labour hold		Swing

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)