Bethnal Green South West (UK Parliament constituency)
Bethnal Green South West was a constituency in London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Bethnal Green South West | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Bethnal Green South West in London 1885-1918 | |
![]() Bethnal Green South West in London 1918-50 | |
1885–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Hackney |
Replaced by | Bethnal Green |
It was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was combined with Bethnal Green North East to form a new Bethnal Green constituency, reflecting the area's substantial fall in population.
Boundaries
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The constituency consisted of the south and west wards of the civil parish of Bethnal Green, Middlesex (later the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green in the County of London).
1885-1918: The South and West wards of the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green.[1]
Members of Parliament
Year | Member | Party | |
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1885 | Edward Pickersgill | Liberal | |
1900 | Samuel Forde Ridley | Conservative | |
1906 | Edward Pickersgill | Liberal | |
1911 | Charles Masterman | Liberal | |
1914 | Sir Mathew Wilson | Unionist | |
1922 | Percy Harris | Liberal | |
1945 | Percy Holman | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished: see Bethnal Green |
Election results
Elections in the 1880s
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E.H. Pickersgill
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edward Pickersgill | 3,088 | 58.4 | ||
Conservative | John Evans Freke Aylmer | 2,200 | 41.6 | ||
Majority | 888 | 16.8 | |||
Turnout | 5,288 | 64.0 | |||
Registered electors | 8,265 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edward Pickersgill | 2,550 | 56.0 | -2.4 | |
Conservative | John Evans Freke Aylmer | 2,001 | 44.0 | +2.4 | |
Majority | 549 | 12.0 | -4.8 | ||
Turnout | 4,551 | 55.1 | -8.9 | ||
Registered electors | 8,265 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -2.4 | |||
Election in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Edward Pickersgill | 3,206 | 59.6 | +3.6 | |
Conservative | Thomas Benskin | 2,171 | 40.4 | -3.6 | |
Majority | 1,035 | 19.2 | +7.2 | ||
Turnout | 5,377 | 68.8 | +13.7 | ||
Registered electors | 7,821 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +3.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edward Pickersgill | 2,603 | 52.8 | -6.8 | |
Conservative | William Arnold Statham | 2,324 | 47.2 | +6.8 | |
Majority | 279 | 5.6 | -13.6 | ||
Turnout | 4,927 | 62.7 | -6.1 | ||
Registered electors | 7,855 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -6.8 | |||
Election in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Samuel Ridley | 2,862 | 53.2 | +6.0 | |
Liberal | Edward Pickersgill | 2,514 | 46.8 | -6.0 | |
Majority | 348 | 6.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,376 | 66.1 | +3.4 | ||
Registered electors | 8,128 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +6.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edward Pickersgill | 3,542 | 63.2 | +16.4 | |
Conservative | Samual Ridley | 2,064 | 36.8 | -16.4 | |
Majority | 1,478 | 26.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,606 | 77.2 | +11.1 | ||
Registered electors | 7,262 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +16.4 | |||
Election in the 1910s
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E.H. Pickersgill
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edward Pickersgill | 3,328 | 58.6 | -4.6 | |
Conservative | Eric Alfred Hoffgaard | 2,350 | 41.4 | +4.6 | |
Majority | 978 | 17.2 | -9.2 | ||
Turnout | 5,678 | 79.9 | +1.7 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | -4.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edward Pickersgill | 2,768 | 57.0 | -1.6 | |
Conservative | Eric Alfred Hoffgaard | 2,086 | 43.0 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 682 | 14.0 | -3.2 | ||
Turnout | 4,854 | 68.3 | -11.6 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | -1.6 | |||
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Masterman
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Masterman | 2,745 | 50.4 | -6.6 | |
Conservative | Eric Alfred Hoffgaard | 2,561 | 47.1 | +4.1 | |
Independent Labour | John Scurr | 134 | 2.5 | New | |
Majority | 184 | 3.3 | -10.7 | ||
Turnout | 5,440 | 76.8 | +8.5 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | -5.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Matthew Wilson | 2,828 | 47.6 | +0.5 | |
Liberal | Charles Masterman | 2,804 | 47.1 | -3.3 | |
Independent Labour | John Scurr | 316 | 5.3 | +2.8 | |
Majority | 24 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5.948 | 83.5 | +6.7 | ||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +1.9 | |||
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Hugh Meyler
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Matthew Wilson | 4,240 | 52.3 | +4.7 |
NFDDSS | Ernest Thurtle | 1,941 | 23.9 | New | |
Liberal | Hugh Meyler | 1,935 | 23.8 | -23.3 | |
Majority | 2,299 | 28.4 | +27.9 | ||
Turnout | 6,116 | 41.6 | -41.9 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Election in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Percy Harris | 5,152 | 40.7 | +17.6 | |
Communist | Joe Vaughan | 4,034 | 31.9 | New | |
Unionist | Matthew Wilson | 3,474 | 27.4 | -24.9 | |
Majority | 1,118 | 8.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 21,129 | 59.9 | +18.3 | ||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Percy Harris | 5,735 | 43.3 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Joe Vaughan | 5,251 | 39.6 | +7.7 | |
Unionist | John Cecil Gerard Leigh | 2,267 | 17.1 | -10.3 | |
Majority | 484 | 3.7 | -5.1 | ||
Turnout | 21,320 | 62.2 | +2.3 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | -2.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Percy Harris | 6,236 | 42.3 | -1.0 | |
Communist | Joe Vaughan | 6,024 | 40.9 | +1.3 | |
Unionist | C.P. Norman | 2,467 | 16.8 | -0.3 | |
Majority | 212 | 1.4 | -2.3 | ||
Turnout | 21,522 | 68.4 | +6.2 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | -1.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Percy Harris | 8,109 | 45.9 | +3.6 | |
Labour | Christopher John Kelly | 6,849 | 38.7 | New | |
Communist | Robert Dunstan | 1,368 | 7.7 | -33.2 | |
Unionist | Herbert John Malone | 1,365 | 7.7 | -9.1 | |
Majority | 1,260 | 7.2 | +5.8 | ||
Turnout | 27,895 | 64.1 | -4.3 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Election in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Percy Harris | 10,176 | 59.6 | +13.7 | |
Labour | W.J. Humphreys | 3,923 | 23.0 | -14.3 | |
Communist | Joe Vaughan | 2,970 | 17.4 | +9.7 | |
Majority | 6,253 | 36.6 | +29.4 | ||
Turnout | 27,895 | 61.2 | -2.9 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | +14.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Percy Harris | 9,011 | 53.1 | -6.5 | |
Labour | George Jeger | 7,945 | 46.9 | +23.9 | |
Majority | 1,066 | 6.2 | -30.4 | ||
Turnout | 27,484 | 61.7 | +0.5 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | -15.2 | |||
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Percy Holman | 6,669 | 57.3 | +10.4 | |
Liberal | Percy Harris | 4,213 | 36.2 | -16.9 | |
National | O. Howard Leicester | 750 | 6.5 | New | |
Majority | 2,456 | 21.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 11,632 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +13.6 | |||
References
- "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.
- Craig, F.W.S., ed. (1969). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 8. ISBN 0-900178-01-9.
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