Ilford (UK Parliament constituency)
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Ilford | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1918–1945 | |
Number of members | one |
Ilford was a borough constituency in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge in east London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election, when it was replaced by the new Ilford North and Ilford South constituencies.
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Boundaries
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Ilford in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1945.
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Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Sir William Peter Griggs | Coalition Conservative | |
1920 by-election | Sir Fredric Wise | Coalition Conservative | |
1928 by-election | (Collingwood) George Clements Hamilton | Conservative | |
1937 by-election | Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson | Conservative | |
1945 | constituency abolished: see Ilford North and Ilford South |
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | 15,7870 | 66.8 | n/a | ||
Labour | Rev. Herbert Dunnico | 4,621 | 19.5 | n/a | |
Liberal | Thomas Hamilton Garside | 3,261 | 13.7 | n/a | |
Majority | 11,249 | 47.3 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 58.3 | n/a | |||
Unionist win |
- denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Fredric Wise | 15,612 | 54.38 | -12.4 | |
Labour | Joseph King | 6,577 | 22.91 | +3.4 | |
Liberal | John William Howard Thompson | 6,515 | 22.69 | +8.9 | |
Turnout | 28,704 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
- denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Sir Fredric Wise | 14,071 | 44.4 | -10.0 | |
Liberal | John William Howard Thompson | 7,625 | 24.0 | +1.3 | |
Labour | A West | 5,414 | 17.1 | -5.8 | |
Independent Unionist | FC Bramston | 4,610 | 14.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 6,446 | 20.4 | -11.1 | ||
Turnout | 70.5 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | -5.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Sir Fredric Wise | 14,136 | 44.4 | 0.0 | |
Liberal | John William Morris | 11,965 | 37.5 | +13.5 | |
Labour | Daniel Chater | 5,775 | 18.1 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 2,171 | 6.9 | -13.5 | ||
Turnout | 64.8 | -5.7 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -6.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Sir Fredric Wise | 22,825 | 58.4 | ||
Labour | Daniel Chater | 8,460 | 21.7 | ||
Liberal | John William Morris | 7,780 | 19.9 | ||
Majority | 14,365 | 36.7 | |||
Turnout | 74.8 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Sir Collingwood George Clements Hamilton | 18,269 | 44.8 | -13.6 | |
Liberal | Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr | 13,621 | 33.4 | +13.5 | |
Labour | C R de Gruchy | 8,922 | 21.9 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 4,648 | 11.4 | -25.3 | ||
Turnout | 67.5 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | -13.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Sir Collingwood George Clements Hamilton | 24,414 | 42.4 | -2.4 | |
Liberal | Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr | 21,267 | 36.9 | +3.8 | |
Labour | Charles Robin de Gruchy | 11,952 | 20.7 | -1.2 | |
Majority | 3,147 | 5.5 | -5.9 | ||
Turnout | 73.6 | +6.1 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -3.1 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Collingwood George Clements Hamilton | 43,737 | 67.2 | ||
Labour | Percy Astins | 12,173 | 18.7 | ||
Liberal | William Stanley Russell Thomas | 9,179 | 14.1 | ||
Majority | 31,564 | 48.5 | |||
Turnout | 71.9 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Collingwood George Clements Hamilton | 43,208 | 63.1 | ||
Labour | Percy Astins | 25,241 | 36.9 | ||
Majority | 17,967 | 26.2 | |||
Turnout | 64.0 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson | ||||
Labour | James Ranger | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
General Election 1939/40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson
- Labour: James Ranger[10]
- British Union: Louise Ann King
References
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
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