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.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty 1885 Robert Gent-Davis Conservative 1889 Mark Hanbury Beaufoy Liberal 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 Labour1950 constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1880s

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