Dulwich and West Norwood

[stb12]

Dulwich and West Norwood

[Pete Whitehead]

Notional results since 1945. The 2019 result is the 'official' (Thrasher & Rallings) notional - the others are my own work

	Con	Lab	Lib
1945	41.8%	49.1%	9.1%
1950	47.5%	44.8%	7.7%
1951	51.4%	46.8%	1.9%
1955	53.1%	44.6%	2.2%
1959	51.3%	39.4%	9.3%
1964	44.5%	45.6%	9.7%
1966	41.9%	50.2%	7.9%

	Con	Lab	Lib/LD	NF/BNP
1970	46.5%	47.0%	6.5%
1974	37.2%	43.7%	19.0%
1974	36.3%	47.8%	15.4%
1979	43.9%	43.6%	9.9%	2.1%
1983	40.6%	38.2%	19.9%	0.9%
1987	41.5%	42.5%	15.1%
1992	39.3%	47.5%	11.5%

	Con	Lab	LD	Green	Ref/UKIP/ BXP
1997	23.9%	60.6%	11.3%		2.0%
2001	23.5%	54.1%	15.6%	4.6%
2005	22.8%	44.9%	24.4%	6.2%	0.7%
2010	22.3%	47.5%	26.0%	2.7%	1.4%
2015	22.4%	55.0%	8.5%	9.7%	3.3%
2017	19.4%	70.8%	6.8%	2.7%
2019	16.6%	64.5%	1.0%	16.2%	1.1%

A rare Labour gain in 1987 - the only 'notional' gain in that year in fact, where on the extant boundaries of course Labour gained zero seats and lost a couple.  They did however come very close to gaining Dulwich itself and this is really the succesor to the Norwood seat of that vintage, which also swung to Labour that year.

[batman]

yes they were part of a minor subregional movement to Labour against the regional average, though it was more appreciable in Croydon NW & Streatham next door

[batman]

you mean Sam Silkin? I think you've attempted to list the candidates who were elected in the respective constituency's nearest linear predecessor in 1979 general election. In fact this constituency contains more of the former Norwood than the former Dulwich constituency, despite the order of the names in the constituency title, so the person would have been John Fraser MP, not Sam Silkin and certainly not John Silkin who represented Lewisham Deptford several miles away.

[johnloony]

6: Ind, and five main parties

www.lambeth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2024-06/Statement%20of%20Persons%20Nominated%2C%20Notice%20of%20Poll%20and%20SOPS%20Dulwich%20and%20West%20Norwood.pdf

[birkinabe]

Considering the Greens' targeting of this seat in 2019, I have to say that I'm surprised this is where Labour got the highest share of the vote in London this time around (edit: and the highest voteshare in any constituency wholly outside of Merseyside as well).