Islington East (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Islington East Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1974 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Islington East was a constituency which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885, until it was abolished for the February 1974 general election.
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[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Henry Bret Ince | Liberal | |
| 1886 | Isaac Cowley Lambert | Conservative | |
| 1892 | Sir Benjamin Louis Cohen | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Sir George Heynes Radford | Liberal | |
| 1917 | Edward Smallwood | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Alfred Baldwin Raper | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson | Conservative | |
| 1923 | Arthur Strettell Comyns-Carr | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Sir Robert Inigo Tasker | Conservative | |
| 1929 | Ethel Bentham | Labour | |
| 1931 | Elizabeth Leah Manning | Labour | |
| 1931 | Thelma Cazalet, later Cazalet-Keir | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Sir Eric Fletcher | Labour | |
| 1970 | John Grant | Labour | |
| 1974 | constituency abolished | ||
[edit] Election results
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[edit] Elections in the 1930s
| Islington East by-election, 19th February 1931 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Leah Manning | 10,591 | 34.7 | −3.3 | |
| Empire Crusade | Alfred Critchley | 8,314 | 27.2 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Thelma Cazalet | 7,182 | 23.5 | −10.6 | |
| Liberal | Horace Crawfurd | 4,450 | 14.6 | −13.3 | |
| Majority | 2,277 | 7.5 | +3.6 | ||
| Turnout | 50.0 | −16.4 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General election, 1931: Islington East | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Thelma Cazalet | 27,221 | 67.5 | +44.0 | |
| Labour | Leah Manning | 13,111 | 32.5 | −2.2 | |
| Majority | 14,110 | 35.0 | |||
| Turnout | 40,332 | 65.4 | +15.4 | ||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +23.1 | |||
| General election, 1935: Islington East | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Thelma Cazalet | 18,248 | 52.5 | −15.0 | |
| Labour | G.D. Jones | 13,810 | 39.8 | +7.3 | |
| Liberal | C.H. Blackburn | 2,670 | 7.7 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,438 | 12.7 | −22.3 | ||
| Turnout | 34,728 | 57.8 | −7.6 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −11.2 | |||
[edit] Elections in the 1940s
| General election, 1945: Islington East | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Eric Fletcher | 18,936 | 65.5 | +25.7 | |
| Conservative | Thelma Cazalet-Keir | 9,960 | 34.5 | −18.0 | |
| Majority | 14,110 | 35.0 | |||
| Turnout | 28,896 | 66.2 | +6.8 | ||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +22.4 | |||
