South_West_Bethnal_Green_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Bethnal Green South West (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1950
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.
Quick Facts 1885–1950, Seats ...
Bethnal Green South West | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Hackney |
Replaced by | Bethnal Green |
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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.
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]
More information Year, Member ...
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 |
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Elections in the 1880s
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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) |
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More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |||
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Election in the 1890s
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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 | |||
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More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |||
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Election in the 1900s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |||
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More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |||
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Election in the 1910s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |||
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More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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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More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |||
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More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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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More information Party, Candidate ...
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 | ||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
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Election in the 1920s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Percy Harris | 5,152 | 40.7 | +16.9 | |
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 | ||||
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More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |||
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More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |||
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More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | ||||
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Election in the 1930s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Percy Harris | 10,176 | 59.6 | +13.7 | |
Labour | W.J. Humphreys | 3,923 | 23.0 | -15.7 | |
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 | |||
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More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |||
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Election in the 1940s
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |||
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- "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.