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1937 Bermondsey Borough election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 25, 2023
Entity authorityQ4892584 ↗
Source-derived summary

Elections to the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey were held in 1937.

The borough had 12 wards which returned between 3 and 6 members. Of the 12 wards 2 of the wards had all candidates elected unopposed. Labour won all of the seats.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bermondsey, Borough and election can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1937 Bermondsey Borough election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.