Islington South (UK Parliament constituency)

Islington South
Islington South
Former borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Seats	one
Created from	Finsbury
Replaced by	Islington South West

Seatsone

Created fromFinsbury

Islington South was a parliamentary constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Islington in North London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Albert Rollit	2,774	55.7	+10.6
	Liberal	Henry Spicer	2,208	44.3	−10.6
Majority			566	11.4	N/A
Turnout			4,982	70.9	−8.1
Registered electors			7,024
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+10.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Albert Rollit	3,194	52.6	−3.1
	Liberal	William Digby	2,873	47.4	+3.1
Majority			321	5.2	−6.2
Turnout			6,067	73.1	+2.2
Registered electors			8,299
	Conservative hold		Swing	−3.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Albert Rollit	3,563	60.3	+7.7
	Liberal	Heber Hart	2,342	39.7	−7.7
Majority			1,221	20.6	+15.4
Turnout			5,905	71.6	−1.5
Registered electors			8,244
	Conservative hold		Swing	+7.7

1885–1918

Islington South
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Seats	one
Created from	Finsbury
Replaced by	Islington South West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Albert Rollit	3,881	70.0	+9.7
	Liberal	James Andrew Strahan	1,665	30.0	−9.7
Majority			2,216	40.0	+19.4
Turnout			5,546	63.1	−8.5
Registered electors			8,796
	Conservative hold		Swing	+9.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Wiles	3,606	55.7	+25.7
	Conservative	Albert Rollit	1,991	30.8	−39.2
	Ind. Conservative	W. Hunt^{[n 1]}	870	13.5	New
Majority			1,615	24.9	N/A
Turnout			6,467	77.3	+14.2
Registered electors			8,361
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+32.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Wiles	3,917	55.1	−0.6
	Conservative	David Faber	3,187	44.9	+14.1
Majority			730	10.2	−14.7
Turnout			7,104	85.9	+8.6
	Liberal hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Wiles	3,494	55.5	+0.4
	Conservative	Lionel Wormser Harris	2,803	44.5	−0.4
Majority			691	11.0	+0.8
Turnout			6,297	76.2	−9.7
	Liberal hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Charles Higham	6,885	53.9	+9.4
	Liberal	Thomas Wiles	5,883	46.1	−9.4
Majority			1,002	7.8	N/A
Turnout			12,768	44.1	−32.1
Registered electors			28,976
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+9.4
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Charles Garland	7,877	36.1	−17.8
	Liberal	Thomas Wiles	7,352	33.6	−12.5
	Labour	Frederick Pethick-Lawrence	6,634	30.3	New
Majority			525	2.5	−5.3
Turnout			21,863	64.2	+20.1
Registered electors			34,029
	Unionist hold		Swing	−2.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Cluse	7,764	37.0	+6.7
	Liberal	Edward Brotherton-Ratcliffe	7,531	35.9	+2.3
	Unionist	Charles Garland	5,691	27.1	−9.0
Majority			233	1.1	N/A
Turnout			20,986	60.9	−3.3
Registered electors			34,462
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+2.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Cluse	10,347	42.8	+5.8
	Unionist	Tom Howard	8,668	35.9	+8.8
	Liberal	Edward Brotherton-Ratcliffe	5,158	21.3	−14.6
Majority			1,679	6.9	+5.8
Turnout			24,173	69.4	+8.5
Registered electors			34,818
	Labour hold		Swing	−1.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Cluse	13,737	46.6	+3.8
	Unionist	Tom Howard	9,418	32.0	−3.9
	Liberal	Frank Milton	6,316	21.4	+0.1
Majority			4,319	14.6	+7.7
Turnout			29,471	66.2	−3.2
Registered electors			44,490
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tom Howard	18,071	62.4	+29.4
	Labour	William Cluse	10,910	37.6	−9.0
Majority			7,161	24.8	N/A
Turnout			28,981	64.8	−1.4
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Cluse	12,526	52.4	+14.8
	Conservative	Tom Howard	11,398	47.6	−14.8
Majority			1,128	4.8	N/A
Turnout			23,924	56.7	−8.1
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Cluse	12,893	72.5	+20.1
	Conservative	Tom Howard	4,877	27.5	−20.1
Majority			8,016	45.0	+40.2
Turnout			17,770	64.0	+3.3
	Labour hold		Swing