Bethnal Green North East (UK Parliament constituency)
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Bethnal Green North East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1885–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Bethnal Green |
Created from | Hackney |
Bethnal Green North East was a parliamentary constituency in London, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Contents
Boundaries
The constituency consisted of the north and east wards of the civil parish of Bethnal Green, Middlesex (later the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green in the County of London).
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | George Howell | Liberal | |
1895 | Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownagree | Conservative | |
1906 | Sir Edwin Cornwall | Liberal | |
1919 | Coalition Liberal | ||
1922 | Garnham Edmonds | Liberal | |
1923 | Walter Windsor | Labour | |
1929 | Harry Nathan | Liberal | |
February 1933 a | Independent Liberal | ||
June 1934 b | Labour | ||
1935 | Daniel Chater | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished - see Bethnal Green |
Notes:-
- a No election. Nathan resigned the Liberal whip.
- b No election. Nathan took the Labour whip.
Election results
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Daniel Chater | 7,696 | 59.9 | ||
Liberal | Paul Hervé Giraud Wright | 3,979 | 30.9 | ||
Conservative | Lord Buckhurst | 1,185 | 9.2 | ||
Majority | 3,717 | 29.0 | |||
Turnout | 19,225 | 66.9 | |||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +1.0 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Daniel Chater | 11,581 | 63.5 | ||
Liberal | Joseph Burton Hobman | 6,644 | 36.5 | ||
Majority | 4,937 | 27.0 | |||
Turnout | 32,809 | 55.5 | |||
Labour Co-op gain from Liberal | Swing | +19.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Harry Louis Nathan | 13,135 | 55.9 | ||
Labour | William Barratt | 10,368 | 44.1 | ||
Majority | 2,767 | 11.8 | |||
Turnout | 34,377 | 68.4 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | +4.7 |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Harry Louis Nathan | 11,690 | 47.4 | -2.4 | |
Labour | Walter Windsor | 11,101 | 44.9 | -5.3 | |
Unionist | James Alan Bell | 1,908 | 7.7 | n/a | |
Majority | 589 | 2.5 | 2.9 | ||
Turnout | 34,453 | 71.7 | +3.3 | ||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | +1.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Walter Windsor | 9,560 | 50.2 | ||
Liberal | Garnham Edmonds | 9,465 | 49.8 | ||
Majority | 95 | 0.4 | |||
Turnout | 27,827 | 68.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Walter Windsor | 7,415 | 45.7 | +12.4 | |
Liberal | Garnham Edmonds | 6,790 | 41.8 | +5.7 | |
Unionist | Robert Inigo Tasker | 2,035 | 12.5 | -5.0 | |
Majority | 625 | 3.9 | 4.7 | ||
Turnout | 27,468 | 59.1 | +0.3 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +3.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Garnham Edmonds | 5,774 | 36.1 | ||
Communist | Walter Windsor | 5,659 | 35.3 | ||
Unionist | Eric Alfred Hoffgaard | 2,806 | 17.5 | ||
National Liberal | George Morgan Garro-Jones | 1,780 | 11.5 | ||
Majority | 115 | 0.8 | |||
Turnout | 27,262 | 58.8 | |||
Liberal gain from National Liberal | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | 4,448 | 56.4 | |||
National Party | Lieut. Wilfred Liddell Steel | 2,312 | 29.3 | ||
Independent | William Shadforth | 1,127 | 14.3 | ||
Majority | 2,136 | 27.1 | |||
Turnout | 25,253 | 31.2 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
- endorsed by the Coalition Government.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall | 3,188 | 61.0 | ||
Conservative | John Elsdale Molson | 2,037 | 39.0 | ||
Majority | 1,151 | 22.0 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -0.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall | 3,842 | 61.2 | ||
Conservative | John Elsdale Molson | 2,435 | 38.8 | ||
Majority | 1,407 | 22.4 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -4.8 |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall | 4,127 | 66.0 | ||
Conservative | Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownagree | 2,130 | 34.0 | ||
Majority | 1,997 | 32.0 | |||
Turnout | 7,730 | 80.9 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +19.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownagree | 2,988 | 53.4 | ||
Liberal | Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson | 2,609 | 46.6 | ||
Majority | 379 | 6.8 | |||
Turnout | 8,012 | 69.9 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.8 |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownagree | 2,591 | 51.6 | ||
Lib-Lab | George Howell | 2,431 | 48.4 | ||
Majority | 160 | 3.2 | |||
Turnout | 7,431 | 67.6 | |||
Conservative gain from Lib-Lab | Swing | +7.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Lib-Lab | George Howell | 2,918 | 54.4 | ||
Conservative | Henry Hananel Marks | 2,321 | 43.2 | ||
Social Democratic Federation | Hugh Robert Taylor | 106 | 2.0 | ||
Independent | R. Ballard | 23 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 597 | 11.2 | |||
Turnout | 7,438 | 72.2 | |||
Lib-Lab hold | Swing | +1.2 |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Lib-Lab | George Howell | 2,278 | 54.4 | ||
Liberal Unionist | Edward John Stoneham | 1,906 | 45.6 | ||
Majority | 372 | 8.8 | |||
Turnout | 7,102 | 58.9 | |||
Lib-Lab hold | Swing | -8.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Lib-Lab | George Howell | 3,095 | 62.7 | n/a | |
Conservative | John Dawson Mayne | 1,844 | 37.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,251 | 25.4 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 7,102 | 69.5 | n/a | ||
Lib-Lab win |
References
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1974)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)
- Bethnal Green Parliamentary Representation at British History online
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)[self-published source][better source needed]
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