Walthamstow East (UK Parliament constituency)

Walthamstow East
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Essex
1918–1974 (1974)
Replaced by	Walthamstow and Chingford
Created from	Walthamstow

Walthamstow East was a parliamentary constituency in what was then the Municipal Borough of Walthamstow in east 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.

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Walthamstow East in Essex, 1918-50

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was combined with part of the former Walthamstow West to form the new Walthamstow constituency. However, Hale End ward was added to the new Chingford constituency.

Boundaries

1918-1950: The Urban District of Walthamstow wards of Hale End, Hoe Street, and Wood Street.

1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Walthamstow wards of Hale End, Hoe Street, and Wood Street.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Stanley Johnson	Unionist
	1924	Sir Hamar Greenwood	Constitutionalist
	1924		Conservative
	1929	Harry Wallace	Labour
	1931	Sir Brograve Beauchamp	Conservative
	1945	Harry Wallace	Labour
	1955	John Harvey	Conservative
	1966	William Robinson	Labour
	1969 b-e	Michael McNair-Wilson	Conservative
	Feb 1974	constituency abolished: see Walthamstow

Elections

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Walthamstow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harry Wright Wallace	11,039	39.6	+4.2
	Unionist	Rt Hon. James Fitzalan Hope	9,665	34.7	-13.8
	Liberal	Dr Joseph S Bridges	7,145	25.7	+9.6
Majority			1,374	4.9	18.0
Turnout				73.1	-4.9
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+9.0

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Walthamstow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp	18,815	58.8	+24.1
	Labour	Harry Wright Wallace	9,983	31.2	-8.4
	Liberal	Albert Charles Crane	3,198	10.0	-15.7
Majority			8,832	27.6	32.5
Turnout			31,996	76.4	+3.3
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+16.2

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Walthamstow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Oscar James Robinson	15,703	47.83
	Conservative	John Edgar Harvey	13,896	42.33
	Liberal	John Peter James Ellis	3,229	9.84
Majority			1,807	5.50
Turnout				80.11
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Walthamstow East, 1969

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Michael Conal McNair-Wilson	13,158	63.15	+20.82
	Labour	Colin Barry Phipps	7,679	36.85	-10.98
Turnout			20,837
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)