North Southwark and Bermondsey | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of North Southwark and Bermondsey in Greater London for the 2005 general election.
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County | Greater London |
1997–2010 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Bermondsey and Old Southwark |
Created from | Southwark and Bermondsey |
European Parliament constituency | London |
North Southwark and Bermondsey was a parliamentary constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created for the 1997 general election.
Minor boundary changes occurred for the 2010 general election, and the constituency was renamed Bermondsey and Old Southwark.
The London Borough of Southwark wards of Abbey, Bricklayers, Browning, Burgess, Cathedral, Chaucer, Dockyard, Newington, Riverside, and Rotherhithe.
As the name suggests, the seat incorporated large parts of the old Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey and Metropolitan Borough of Southwark, within the modern London Borough of Southwark (which is much larger than historic Southwark).
The seat was created in 1997 and was primarily the successor seat to the old Southwark & Bermondsey constituency which existed from 1983 until 1997. Before that the core of the seat was the Bermondsey constituency in which incarnation a notorious by-election took place in 1983.