# Holborn and St Pancras South (UK Parliament constituency)

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

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 | Election | Member | Party |
| | 1950 | Santo Jeger | Labour |
| | 1953 by-election | Lena Jeger | Labour |
| | 1959 | Geoffrey Johnson-Smith | Conservative |
| | 1964 | Lena Jeger | Labour |
| | 1979 | Frank Dobson | Labour |
| 1983 | 1983 | constituency abolished: see Holborn and St Pancras | constituency abolished: see Holborn and St Pancras |

## Election results
### Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Holborn and St. Pancras South :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 1,230 | 3.10 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 39,627 | 72.10 | |
| | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |
General election 1951: Holborn and St. Pancras South :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 1,759 | 4.34 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 40,521 | 73.70 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
1953 Holborn and St Pancras South by-election :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 1,976 | 6.52 | +2.18 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 30,287 | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
General election 1955: Holborn and St. Pancras South :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 931 | 2.70 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 34,514 | 67.30 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
General election 1959: Holborn and St. Pancras South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Geoffrey Johnson-Smith | 17,065 | 50.98 | |
| | Labour | Lena Jeger | 16,409 | 49.02 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 656 | 1.96 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 33,474 | 69.01 | |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | | |

### Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Holborn and St. Pancras South :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 2,756 | 9.43 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 29,216 | 67.52 | |
| | Labour gain from Conservative | Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | | |
General election 1966: Holborn and St. Pancras South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Lena Jeger | 16,128 | 59.49 |
| | Conservative | Julian Michael Edmund Byng | 10,982 | 40.51 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 5,146 | 19.98 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 27,110 | 65.54 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |

### Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Holborn and St. Pancras South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Lena Jeger | 12,448 | 55.15 |
| | Conservative | Julian Michael Edmund Byng | 10,125 | 44.85 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 2,323 | 10.30 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 22,573 | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
General election February 1974: Holborn and St. Pancras South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Lena Jeger | 12,414 | 49.31 | |
| | Conservative | Robert Frederick James Parsons | 8,223 | 32.54 | |
| | Liberal | Thomas Hibbert | 4,632 | 18.33 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 4,191 | 16.77 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 25,269 | 64.81 | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
General election October 1974: Holborn and St. Pancras South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Lena Jeger | 11,790 | 55.94 |
| | Conservative | Robert Frederick James Parsons | 6,349 | 30.12 |
| | Liberal | Frederick Michael John Lee | 2,938 | 13.94 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 5,441 | 25.82 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 21,077 | 53.81 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | +4.6 |
General election 1979: Holborn and St. Pancras South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Frank Dobson | 12,026 | 49.31 | |
| | Conservative | Robert Key | 9,703 | 39.79 | |
| | Liberal | Thomas Hibbert | 2,190 | 8.98 | |
| | National Front | Frank Theobald | 334 | 1.37 | New |
| | Workers Revolutionary | Peter Farrell | 134 | 0.55 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 2,323 | 9.52 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 12,361 | 60.40 | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |