Stepney (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Stepney Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1885, 1950 |
| Abolished: | 1918, 1974 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Stepney was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Stepney district of the East End of London. It 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 system.
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[edit] History
The constituency existed for two separate periods:
- it was first created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election
- from the 1950 general election until its abolition for the February 1974 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Stepney and Poplar.
[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | John Charles Durant | ||
| 1886 | Frederick Wootton Isaacson | ||
| 1898 | William Charles Steadman | ||
| 1900 | Sir William Eden Evans-Gordon | ||
| 1907 | Frederick Leverton Harris | ||
| 1910 | William Samuel Glyn-Jones | ||
| 1918 | constituency abolished | ||
| 1950 | constituency recreated | ||
| 1950 | Walter Edwards | Labour | |
| 1964 | Peter Shore | Labour | |
| 1974 | constituency abolished | ||
[edit] Elections
[edit] Elections in the 1970s
| General Election 1970: Stepney | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Peter Shore | 18,993 | 74.8 | ||
| Conservative | Harry Greenway | 4,922 | 19.4 | ||
| Communist | Solly Kaye | 1,468 | 5.8 | ||
| Majority | 14,071 | 55.4 | |||
| Turnout | 44.9 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] Elections in the 1960s
| General Election 1966: Stepney | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Peter Shore | 23,098 | 76.1 | ||
| Conservative | B. P. Cooper | 5,049 | 16.6 | ||
| Communist | Solly Kaye | 2,209 | 7.3 | ||
| Majority | 18,049 | 59.5 | |||
| Turnout | 50.7 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1964: Stepney | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Peter Shore | 22,184 | 71.4 | ||
| Conservative | I. F. H. Davison | 6,466 | 20.7 | ||
| Communist | Solly Kaye | 2,454 | 7.9 | ||
| Majority | 15,818 | 50.7 | |||
| Turnout | 51.3 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] Elections in the 1950s
| General Election 1959: Stepney | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Walter Edwards | 26,875 | 70.7 | ||
| Conservative | P. B. Calwell | 8,566 | 22.6 | ||
| Communist | Solly Kaye | 2,548 | 6.7 | ||
| Majority | 18,309 | 48.2 | |||
| Turnout | 59.4 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1955: Stepney | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Walter Edwards | 27,677 | 73.0 | ||
| Conservative | L. F. Sutton | 5,733 | 15.1 | ||
| Communist | Solly Kaye | 2,888 | 7.6 | ||
| Liberal | F. Winckless | 1,615 | 4.3 | ||
| Majority | 21,944 | 57.9 | |||
| Turnout | 57.8 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1951: Stepney | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Walter Edwards | 35,849 | 76.5 | ||
| Conservative | M. H. B. Solomon | 7,586 | 16.2 | ||
| Communist | Ted Bramley | 3,436 | 7.3 | ||
| Majority | 28,263 | 60.3 | |||
| Turnout | 70.9 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1950: Stepney | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Walter Edwards | 33,475 | 70.0 | N/A | |
| Conservative | M. H. B. Solomon | 6,238 | 13.1 | N/A | |
| Communist | Phil Piratin | 5,991 | 12.5 | N/A | |
| Liberal | J. H. Maynard | 2,105 | 4.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 27,237 | 57.0 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 72.5 | N/A | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | N/A | |||
[edit] References
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
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