Stratford West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Stratford-on-Avon (UK Parliament constituency).

Stratford
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
Stratford in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1950.
County	Essex
1918–1950
Seats	One
Created from	West Ham North
Replaced by	West Ham North

Stratford (strictly the Stratford Division of West Ham) was a parliamentary constituency in the Borough of West Ham in the South-West of Essex (now East London), which 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.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Leonard Lyle	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Thomas Groves	Labour
	1945	Henry Nicholls	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Elections

Election in the 1940s

General election 1945: Stratford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry Nicholls	11,484	74.6	+11.5
	Conservative	Redvers Michael Prior	3,162	20.5	−16.4
	Independent	Thomas Groves	749	4.9	New
Majority			8,322	54.1	+27.9
Turnout			15,395	60.9	+3.8
Registered electors			25,295
	Labour hold		Swing	+14.0

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1935: Stratford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Groves	14,427	63.1	+12.7
	Conservative	F.H.G.H. Goodhart	8,452	36.9	−12.7
Majority			5,975	26.2	+25.4
Turnout			22,879	57.1	−7.5
Registered electors			40,042
	Labour hold		Swing	+12.7

General election 1931: Stratford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Groves	13,925	50.4	−8.2
	Conservative	C.G. Wodehouse-Temple	13,722	49.6	+21.4
Majority			203	0.8	−29.6
Turnout			27,647	64.6	−1.4
Registered electors			42,815
	Labour hold		Swing	−14.8

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1929: Stratford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Groves	16,665	58.6	+2.6
	Unionist	Henry Procter	8,018	28.2	−15.8
	Liberal	Albert Charles Crane	3,779	13.3	New
Majority			8,647	30.4	+18.4
Turnout			28,462	66.0	−3.0
Registered electors			43,134
	Labour hold		Swing	+9.2

General election 1924: Stratford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Groves	13,264	56.0	+0.9
	Unionist	Harold Balfour	10,414	44.0	+17.8
Majority			2,850	12.0	−16.9
Turnout			23,678	69.0	+7.2
Registered electors			34,293
	Labour hold		Swing	−8.5

General election 1923: Stratford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Groves	11,466	55.1	+8.3
	Unionist	Victor Fisher	5,443	26.2	−14.3
	Liberal	William Crow	3,888	18.7	+6.0
Majority			6,023	28.9	+22.6
Turnout			20,797	61.8	−3.1
Registered electors			33,664
	Labour hold		Swing	+11.3

General election 1922: Stratford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Groves	10,017	46.8	New
	Unionist	Leonard Lyle	8,641	40.5	−23.3
	Liberal	Alfred Scott	2,704	12.7	−23.5
Majority			1,376	6.3	N/A
Turnout			21,362	64.9	+22.6
Registered electors			32,930
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: Stratford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Leonard Lyle	8,498	63.8
	Liberal	Charles Masterman	4,821	36.2
Majority			3,677	27.6
Turnout			13,319	42.3
Registered electors			31,458
	Unionist win (new seat)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

References

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)