Dulwich (UK Parliament constituency)

Dulwich
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Greater London
1885–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Dulwich and West Norwood
Created from	Lambeth

Dulwich was a borough constituency in the Dulwich area of South London, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. The constituency was abolished by the Boundary Commission in 1997, when most of its former territory became part of the Dulwich and West Norwood constituency.

The constituency of Dulwich was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, as one of nine developed from the former two-seat constituency of Lambeth. Lambeth had been a solidly Liberal constituency. Dulwich was one of three seats in the new parliamentary borough of Camberwell.

As a suburban London constituency, Dulwich tended to favour the Conservatives, and returned a Conservative member in each election between 1885 and 1945, when it fell to the Labour party. After that it became a marginal seat, with Labour winning slightly more times than the Conservatives. In 1892 the Liberal candidate estimated that it had around 4,000 working class voters out of around 10,500 and observed that although it had a reputation as a 'villa constituency' there were many voters in the many less impressive houses.

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