| Kennington | |
| Type: | Borough |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Elects Howmany: | one |
| Previous: | Lambeth |
| Next: | Vauxhall and Brixton |
Kennington was a borough constituency centred on the Kennington district of South 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.
In 1918 Alice Theresa Lucas became the first woman to stand as a Conservative party candidate. She took 32.2% of the vote and came second to the Liberal candidate Henry Purchase. She would have been the first woman MP if she had been elected.[1]
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Robert Gent-Davis | Conservative | ||
| 1889 | Mark Hanbury Beaufoy | |||
| 1895 | Sir Frederick Cook | Conservative | ||
| 1906 | Sir Stephen Collins | Liberal | ||
| 1918 | Henry Purchase | Coalition Liberal | ||
| 1922 | Francis Capel Harrison | Conservative | ||
| 1923 | Thomas Williams | Labour | ||
| 1924 | George Harvey | Unionist | ||
| 1929 | Leonard Matters | Labour | ||
| 1931 | Sir George Harvey | Conservative | ||
| 1939 | John Wilmot | Labour | ||
| 1945 | Charles Gibson | Labour | ||
| 1950 | constituency abolished | |||