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Holborn and St Pancras South was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holborn district of Central London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Holborn and St Pancras.
Boundaries
A map showing the wards of St Pancras Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.
1950–1974: The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn, and wards five, six, seven and eight of the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras.
1974–1983: The London Borough of Camden wards of Bloomsbury, Euston, Holborn, King's Cross, Regent's Park, and St Pancras.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1950s
| General election 1950: Holborn and St. Pancras South |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Santo Jeger |
19,223 |
48.51 |
|
|
Conservative |
Peter John Feilding Chapman-Walker |
17,993 |
45.41 |
|
|
Liberal |
Hilda Buckmaster |
2,411 |
6.08 |
|
| Majority |
1,230 |
3.10 |
|
| Turnout |
39,627 |
72.10 |
|
|
Labour win (new seat) |
| General election 1951: Holborn and St. Pancras South |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Santo Jeger |
20,332 |
50.18 |
|
|
Conservative |
Louis Gluckstein |
18,573 |
45.84 |
|
|
Liberal |
Isaac Joseph Hyam |
1,616 |
3.99 |
|
| Majority |
1,759 |
4.34 |
|
| Turnout |
40,521 |
73.70 |
|
|
Labour hold |
Swing |
|
|
| 1953 Holborn and St Pancras South by-election |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Lena Jeger |
15,784 |
52.11 |
+1.93 |
|
Conservative |
William Timothy Donovan |
13,808 |
45.59 |
-0.25 |
|
Liberal |
Isaac Joseph Hyam |
695 |
2.29 |
-1.70 |
| Majority |
1,976 |
6.52 |
+2.18 |
| Turnout |
30,287 |
|
|
|
Labour hold |
Swing |
|
|
| General election 1955: Holborn and St. Pancras South |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Lena Jeger |
17,126 |
49.62 |
|
|
Conservative |
William Timothy Donovan |
16,195 |
46.92 |
|
|
Liberal |
Isaac Joseph Hyam |
1,193 |
3.46 |
|
| Majority |
931 |
2.70 |
|
| Turnout |
34,514 |
67.30 |
|
|
Labour hold |
Swing |
|
|
| General election 1959: Holborn and St. Pancras South |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Conservative |
Geoffrey Johnson-Smith |
17,065 |
50.98 |
|
|
Labour |
Lena Jeger |
16,409 |
49.02 |
|
| Majority |
656 |
1.96 |
N/A |
| Turnout |
33,474 |
69.01 |
|
|
Conservative gain from Labour |
Swing |
|
|
Elections in the 1960s
| General election 1964: Holborn and St. Pancras South |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Lena Jeger |
15,873 |
54.33 |
|
|
Conservative |
Geoffrey Johnson-Smith |
13,117 |
44.90 |
|
|
Independent |
Ali Mohammad Bongo Abbas |
226 |
0.77 |
New |
| Majority |
2,756 |
9.43 |
N/A |
| Turnout |
29,216 |
67.52 |
|
|
Labour gain from Conservative |
Swing |
|
|
| General election 1966: Holborn and St. Pancras South |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Labour |
Lena Jeger |
16,128 |
59.49 |
|
|
Conservative |
Julian Michael Edmund Byng |
10,982 |
40.51 |
|
| Majority |
5,146 |
19.98 |
|
| Turnout |
27,110 |
65.54 |
|
|
Labour hold |
Swing |
|
|
Elections in the 1970s
