Rotherhithe (UK Parliament constituency)

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Rotherhithe Borough constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Rotherhithe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Rotherhithe district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election when it became part of the revived Bermondsey constituency.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Charles Edward Hamilton	Conservative
	1892	John Cumming McDona	Conservative
	1906	Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm	Liberal
	1918	John Rolleston Lort-Williams	Coalition Conservative
	1923	Benjamin Smith	Labour
	1931	Norah Cecil Runge	Conservative
	1935	Benjamin Smith	Labour
	1946	Robert Joseph Mellish	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

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[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page