Bethnal Green North East (UK Parliament constituency)
Bethnal Green North East | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Hackney |
Replaced by | Bethnal Green |
Bethnal Green North East was a parliamentary constituency in London, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) 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
Boundaries
[edit]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).
1885-1918: The North and East wards of the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green.[1]
Members of Parliament
[edit]Year | Member | Whip | |
---|---|---|---|
1885 | George Howell | Liberal | |
1895 | Sir Mancherjee Bhownaggree | 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 | Dan 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
[edit]Elections in the 1880s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lib-Lab | George Howell | 3,095 | 62.7 | ||
Conservative | John Dawson Mayne | 1,844 | 37.3 | ||
Majority | 1,251 | 25.4 | |||
Turnout | 4,939 | 69.5 | |||
Registered electors | 7,102 | ||||
Lib-Lab win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lib-Lab | George Howell | 2,278 | 54.4 | −8.3 | |
Liberal Unionist | Edward John Stoneham | 1,906 | 45.6 | +8.3 | |
Majority | 372 | 8.8 | −16.6 | ||
Turnout | 4,184 | 58.9 | −10.6 | ||
Registered electors | 7,102 | ||||
Lib-Lab hold | Swing | −8.3 |
Elections in the 1890s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lib-Lab | George Howell | 2,918 | 54.4 | 0.0 | |
Conservative | Harry Marks | 2,321 | 43.2 | −2.4 | |
Social Democratic Federation | Hugh Robert Taylor | 106 | 2.0 | New | |
Independent | R. Ballard | 23 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 597 | 11.2 | +2.4 | ||
Turnout | 5,368 | 72.2 | +13.3 | ||
Registered electors | 7,438 | ||||
Lib-Lab hold | Swing | +1.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Mancherjee Bhownaggree | 2,591 | 51.6 | +8.4 | |
Lib-Lab | George Howell | 2,431 | 48.4 | −6.0 | |
Majority | 160 | 3.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,022 | 67.6 | −4.6 | ||
Registered electors | 7,431 | ||||
Conservative gain from Lib-Lab | Swing | +7.2 |
Elections in the 1900s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Mancherjee Bhownaggree | 2,988 | 53.4 | +1.8 | |
Liberal | Harry Levy-Lawson | 2,609 | 46.6 | −1.8 | |
Majority | 379 | 6.8 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 5,597 | 69.9 | +2.3 | ||
Registered electors | 8,012 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edwin Cornwall | 4,127 | 66.0 | +19.4 | |
Conservative | Mancherjee Bhownaggree | 2,130 | 34.0 | −19.4 | |
Majority | 1,997 | 32.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 6,257 | 80.9 | +11.0 | ||
Registered electors | 7,730 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +19.4 |
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edwin Cornwall | 3,842 | 61.2 | −4.8 | |
Conservative | John Molson | 2,435 | 38.8 | +4.8 | |
Majority | 1,407 | 22.4 | −9.6 | ||
Turnout | 6,277 | 83.1 | +2.2 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | −4.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edwin Cornwall | 3,188 | 61.0 | −0.2 | |
Conservative | John Molson | 2,037 | 39.0 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 1,151 | 22.0 | −0.4 | ||
Turnout | 5,225 | 69.2 | −13.9 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | −0.2 |
General election 1914–15:
Another general election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: Edwin Cornwall
- Unionist:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Liberal | Edwin Cornwall | 4,448 | 56.4 | −4.6 |
National | Wilfred Liddell Steel | 2,312 | 29.3 | −9.7 | |
Health | William Shadforth | 1,127 | 14.3 | New | |
Majority | 2,136 | 27.1 | +5.1 | ||
Turnout | 25,253 | 31.2 | −38.0 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Garnham Edmonds | 5,774 | 36.1 | −20.3 | |
Communist | Walter Windsor | 5,659 | 35.3 | New | |
Unionist | Eric Alfred Hoffgaard | 2,806 | 17.5 | New | |
National Liberal | George Garro-Jones | 1,780 | 11.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 115 | 0.8 | −26.3 | ||
Turnout | 27,262 | 58.8 | +27.6 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Walter Windsor | 7,415 | 45.7 | +12.4 | |
Liberal | Garnham Edmonds | 6,790 | 41.8 | +5.7 | |
Unionist | Robert Tasker | 2,035 | 12.5 | −5.0 | |
Majority | 625 | 3.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 27,468 | 59.1 | +0.3 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +3.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Walter Windsor | 9,560 | 50.2 | +4.5 | |
Liberal | Garnham Edmonds | 9,465 | 49.8 | +8.0 | |
Majority | 95 | 0.4 | −3.5 | ||
Turnout | 27,827 | 68.4 | +9.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Harry Nathan | 11,690 | 47.4 | −2.4 | |
Labour | Walter Windsor | 11,101 | 44.9 | −5.3 | |
Unionist | James Alan Bell | 1,908 | 7.7 | New | |
Majority | 589 | 2.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 34,453 | 71.7 | +3.3 | ||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | +1.5 |
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Harry Nathan | 13,135 | 55.9 | +8.5 | |
Labour | William Barratt | 10,368 | 44.1 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 2,767 | 11.8 | +9.3 | ||
Turnout | 34,377 | 68.4 | −3.3 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | +4.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Dan Chater | 11,581 | 63.5 | +19.4 | |
Liberal | Joseph Burton Hobman | 6,644 | 36.5 | −19.4 | |
Majority | 4,937 | 27.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,809 | 55.5 | −12.9 | ||
Labour Co-op gain from Liberal | Swing | +19.4 |
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]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;
- Labour: Dan Chater[4]
- Liberal: Ormond Lewis[5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Dan Chater | 7,696 | 59.9 | −3.6 | |
Liberal | Paul Wright | 3,979 | 30.9 | −5.6 | |
Conservative | William Sackville | 1,185 | 9.2 | New | |
Majority | 3,717 | 29.0 | +2.0 | ||
Turnout | 19,225 | 66.9 | +11.4 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +1.0 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Chap. 23. Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885". The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom passed in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of the reign of Queen Victoria. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1885. pp. 111–198.
- ^ a b c d e f British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, F. W. S. Craig
- ^ a b c d e f g h British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F. W. S. Craig.
- ^ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939.
- ^ The Liberal Magazine, 1939.