Bethnal Green North East (UK Parliament constituency) explained

Bethnal Green North East
Type:borough
Parliament:uk
Year:1885
Abolished:1950
Elects Howmany:one
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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

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

YearMemberWhip
1885George HowellLiberal
1895Sir Mancherjee BhownaggreeConservative
1906Sir Edwin CornwallLiberal
1919Coalition Liberal
1922Garnham EdmondsLiberal
1923Walter WindsorLabour
1929Harry NathanLiberal
February 1933 aIndependent Liberal
June 1934 bLabour
1935Dan ChaterLabour
1950constituency abolished - see Bethnal Green

Notes:-

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

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;

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1940s

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;

References

  1. Book: . The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom passed in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of the reign of Queen Victoria . https://archive.org/details/publicgeneralac01walegoog/page/n113/mode/2up . London . Eyre and Spottiswoode . 111–198 . 1885 . Chap. 23. Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 .
  2. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939.
  3. The Liberal Magazine, 1939.