Fulham West (UK Parliament constituency)

Fulham West
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1955
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Fulham
Created from	Fulham

Fulham West in the County of London, boundaries 1918-50

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

Fulham West in the County of London, boundaries 1950-55

Fulham West was a borough constituency based in the London district of Fulham. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1955.

At the 1918 general election the previous Fulham constituency was divided into two constituencies, Fulham East and Fulham West; the two halves were re-united for the 1955 general election. At the 1997 general election, the Fulham constituency was replaced by Hammersmith and Fulham.

Boundaries

The Metropolitan Borough of Fulham wards of Hurlingham, Margravine, Munster, and Town.

Members of Parliament

	Member^[1]	Party^[2]
1918	Sir Cyril Cobb	Unionist
1929	Ernest Spero	Labour
1930	Sir Cyril Cobb	Conservative
1938	Edith Summerskill	Labour
1955	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Fulham West^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb	12,182	64.9	n/a
	Labour	Robert Mark Gentry	4,435	23.7	n/a
	Liberal	Sir Herbert George Fordham	1,139	6.1	n/a
	NFDDSS	William Jones Allen	995	5.3	n/a
Majority			7,747	41.2	n/a
Turnout				46.9	n/a
	Unionist win

endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Fulham West^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb	14,875	64.4	-0.5
	Labour	Robert Mark Gentry	8,210	35.6	+11.9
Majority			6,665	28.8	-12.4
Turnout			23,085	58.4	+11.5
	Unionist hold		Swing	-6.2

General Election 1923: Fulham West^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb	9,965	39.5	-24.9
	Labour	Robert Mark Gentry	8,687	34.4	-1.2
	Liberal	Christopher W Courtenay	6,604	26.1	n/a
Majority			1,278	5.1	-23.7
Turnout			25,256	62.9	+4.5
	Unionist hold		Swing	-11.8

General Election 1924: Fulham West^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb	17,109	59.4	+19.8
	Labour	Robert Mark Gentry	11,706	40.6	+1.2
Majority			5,403	18.8	+13.7
Turnout			28,215	71.3	+8.4
	Unionist hold		Swing	+9.3

Spero

General Election 1929: Fulham West^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Ernest Spero	16,190	44.9	+4.3
	Unionist	Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb	13,979	38.7	-20.7
	Liberal	George Arthur Gale	5,920	16.4	n/a
Majority			2,211	6.2
Turnout			36,089	71.4	0.0
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+12.5

Elections in the 1930s

Fulham West by-election, 1930 ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb	16,223	50.4	+11.7
	Labour	John William Banfield	15,983	49.6	+4.7
Majority			240	0.8
Turnout			32,206	63.6	-7.7
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+3.5

General Election 1931: Fulham West^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb	24,257	66.6	+16.2
	Labour	John William Banfield	12,164	33.4	-16.2
Majority			12,093	33.2	+32.4
Turnout			36,421	71.4	+7.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	+16.2

Follick

General Election 1935: Fulham West^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb	18,461	53.4	-13.2
	Labour	Montefiore Follick	14,978	43.3	+9.9
	Liberal	Ebenezer Josiah Johnson	1,132	3.3	n/a
Majority			3,483	10.1	-23.1
Turnout				69.9	-1.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	-11.6

Fulham West by-election, 1938 ^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Edith Clara Summerskill	16,583	52.2	+8.9
	Conservative	Charles John Busby	15,162	47.8	-5.6
Majority			1,421	4.4
Turnout			31,745	66.5	-3.4
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+7.3

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: Edith Clara Summerskill^[12]
Conservative:
British Union: Miss Mercedes Barrington

Elections in the 1940s

Lucas

General Election 1945: Fulham West^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Edith Clara Summerskill	19,537	61.9	+9.7
	Conservative	Percy Belgrave Lucas	12,016	38.1	-9.7
Majority			7,521	23.8	+19.4
Turnout				76.3	+10.8
	Labour hold		Swing	+9.7

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Fulham West ^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Rt Hon. Edith Clara Summerskill	20,141	51.1	-10.8
	Conservative	William James O'Donovan	17,292	43.9	+5.8
	Liberal	Eric Walcot-Bather	1,949	5.0	n/a
Majority			2,849	7.2	-16.6
Turnout			37,433	86.2	+9.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-8.3

General Election 1951: Fulham West ^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Rt Hon. Edith Clara Summerskill	20,290	51.7	+0.6
	Independent	William John Brown	17,707	45.1	n/a
	Liberal	Eric Walcot-Bather	1,247	3.2	-1.8
Majority			2,583	6.6	-1.7
Turnout			37,997	86.6	+0.4
	Labour hold		Swing	n/a

References

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "F"
↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 18. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, FWS Craig

Historic constituencies in London

1918	Balham and Tooting Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey West Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Camberwell North Camberwell North West Clapham Dulwich Chelsea City of London Deptford Finsbury Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn Islington East Islington North Islington South Islington West Kennington Kensington North Kensington South Lambeth North Lewisham East Lewisham West Limehouse Mile End Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar South Putney Rotherhithe St Marylebone St Pancras North St Pancras South East St Pancras South West Shoreditch Southwark Central Southwark North Southwark South East Stoke Newington Streatham Wandsworth Central Westminster Abbey Westminster St George's Whitechapel and St George's Woolwich East Woolwich West

1950	Barnet Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Streatham Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

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