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including 1,651 high-explosive bombs across the wider borough, taking decades to rebuild. Relatively poorly paid dock work rapidly evaporated to leave a labour shortage and local work included settings of low-skilled/paid warehouses, railway yards, buses/trams/taxis, civil infrastructure, and many
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streets than those intensely poverty-stricken such as tenement yards clumped west of Borough High Street, east of Great Dover Street and clinging close to parts of the eastern riverside. In the far southwest, St Alphege, Southwark (approximately 4% of the area) was approximately half overlain as
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so had a single Member of Parliament throughout its existence, furthermore a plurality of its electorate voted for the same candidate at each election, the Liberal Democrat (previously
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The London Borough of Southwark wards of Abbey, Bricklayers, Browning, Burgess, Cathedral, Chaucer, Dockyard, Riverside, and Rotherhithe.
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streets were its main thoroughfares, Borough High Street, Blackfriars Road, Old Kent Road, Southwark Park Road, and Southwark Street in
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steel-and-glass fronted or plain concrete towers to semi-classical or green landscaped part-brick and concrete
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at that election, who were a more centrist group. The last non-Labour MP for Bermondsey West was a Liberal –
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against a backdrop of the Labour Party being at an immense low in the polls nationally amid success in the
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people employed in the lower-paid public service careers, construction etc. within the aftermath of
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Before 1950, the last non-Labour MP for any of Bermondsey's one-third-predecessor seats was in
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JISC, University of Portsmouth, in collaboration with the National Archives and funded by.
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Hughes had already been the MP for the forebear of virtually the whole seat. His February
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)
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win was one of the most bitterly contested by-elections in the UK as it involved
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Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1997
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London School of Economics - The Charles Booth archive. Accessed 2017-08-19
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apartment blocks. The forerunner seat of Bermondsey (created 1950) saw low
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Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1983
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projects throughout inner south London in schemes ranging from cheap
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and the start of a phase of strong positive economic growth under
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Southwark and Bermondsey consisted of the northern part of the
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after the party's founding in 1988. It was replaced with the
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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983–1997
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who moved with part of the Liberal Party to being a
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Index

Southwark and Bermondsey
borough constituency
House of Commons
County
Greater London
Bermondsey
Rotherhithe
1983
1997
Bermondsey
Peckham
North Southwark and Bermondsey
constituency
Member of Parliament
Simon Hughes
Liberal
Liberal Democrat
North Southwark and Bermondsey
1983 general election
1997 general election
Chartists
1832
Third Reform Act - The Reform Act 1884
Liberal
Simon Hughes
1983 by-election
Bob Mellish
Peter Tatchell
Falklands War
Margaret Thatcher

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