Bethnal Green North East (UK Parliament constituency)

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK constituency 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

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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.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Whip
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1885	George Howell	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1895	Sir Mancherjee Bhownaggree	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1906	Sir Edwin Cornwall	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1919		Coalition Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1922	Garnham Edmonds	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1923	Walter Windsor	Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1929	Harry Nathan	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	February 1933 a		Independent Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	June 1934 b		Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	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

Elections in the 1880s

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George Howell

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General election 1885: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Dawson Mayne	1,844	37.3
Majority			1,251	25.4
Turnout			4,939	69.5
Registered electors			7,102
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General election 1886: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Edward John Stoneham	1,906	45.6
Majority			372	8.8
Turnout			4,184	58.9
Registered electors			7,102
	hold		Swing	−8.3

Elections in the 1890s

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General election 1892: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Harry Marks	2,321	43.2
		Hugh Robert Taylor	106	2.0
		R. Ballard	23	0.4
Majority			597	11.2
Turnout			5,368	72.2
Registered electors			7,438
	hold		Swing	+1.2

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General election 1895: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		George Howell	2,431	48.4
Majority			160	3.2
Turnout			5,022	67.6
Registered electors			7,431
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+7.2

Elections in the 1900s

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General election 1900: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Harry Levy-Lawson	2,609	46.6
Majority			379	6.8
Turnout			5,597	69.9
Registered electors			8,012
	hold		Swing	+1.8

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Cornwall

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General election 1906: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Mancherjee Bhownaggree	2,130	34.0
Majority			1,997	32.0
Turnout			6,257	80.9
Registered electors			7,730
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+19.4

Elections in the 1910s

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General election January 1910: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Molson	2,435	38.8
Majority			1,407	22.4
Turnout			6,277	83.1
	hold		Swing	−4.8

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General election December 1910: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Molson	2,037	39.0
Majority			1,151	22.0
Turnout			5,225	69.2
	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:

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Elections in the 1920s

General election 1918: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Wilfred Liddell Steel	2,312	29.3
	Health	William Shadforth	1,127	14.3
Majority			2,136	27.1
Turnout			25,253	31.2
	hold		Swing	N/A

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General election 1922: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Walter Windsor	5,659	35.3
		Eric Alfred Hoffgaard	2,806	17.5
		George Garro-Jones	1,780	11.5
Majority			115	0.8
Turnout			27,262	58.8
	hold		Swing

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General election 1923: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Garnham Edmonds	6,790	41.8
		Robert Tasker	2,035	12.5
Majority			625	3.9
Turnout			27,468	59.1
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+3.3

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General election 1924: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Garnham Edmonds	9,465	49.8
Majority			95	0.4
Turnout			27,827	68.4
	hold		Swing	−1.8

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General election 1929: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Walter Windsor	11,101	44.9
		James Alan Bell	1,908	7.7
Majority			589	2.5
Turnout			34,453	71.7
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+1.5

Elections in the 1930s

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General election 1931: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Barratt	10,368	44.1
Majority			2,767	11.8
Turnout			34,377	68.4
	hold		Swing	+4.7

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General election 1935: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Joseph Burton Hobman	6,644	36.5
Majority			4,937	27.0
Turnout			32,809	55.5
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+19.4

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;

• Labour: Dan Chater
• Liberal: Ormond Lewis

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General election 1945: Bethnal Green North East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Paul Wright	3,979	30.9
		William Sackville	1,185	9.2
Majority			3,717	29.0
Turnout			19,225	66.9
	hold		Swing	+1.0