Southwark & Bermondsey (UK Parliament constituency)

Southwark and Bermondsey
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Greater London
Major settlements	Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and the northern parts of Southwark including the east of the South Bank and area around Borough tube station
1983–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	North Southwark and Bermondsey
Created from	Bermondsey (vast bulk of) Peckham (small part of)

Southwark and Bermondsey was a late 20th century, 14-year seat of Central/South London — its Member of Parliament elected to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament was Simon Hughes, in the first stage of his career in the house, as a Liberal then Liberal Democrat after the party's founding in 1988. Its successor seat, created in 1997, North Southwark and Bermondsey was similarly nominally abolished with negligble neighbourhoods moved in 2010 to become Bermondsey and Old Southwark.

Politically the first return of Hughes to the Commons, three months before the seat's creation, and for an almost identical seat – Bermondsey – remains the by-election with the greatest swing in the UK — 44%. Hughes lost his seat in 2015, sustaining a 14% negative swing, marginally less than 15.2% swing felt nationally by his party.

The constituency was created for the 1983 general election and abolished for the 1997 general election. As all constituencies since 1950 it was a single-member-representation seat, of the sort envisioned by the Chartists in 1832 and by the legislators mooting the Third Reform Act - The Reform Act 1884 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 Liberal) Simon Hughes.

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