Mile End (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Mile End Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Mile End was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Mile End district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
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[edit] Boundaries
1885-1918: In this period the constituency was a division of the parliamentary borough of Tower Hamlets in east London. The seat was centred upon the community of Mile End including the Mile End Road, which adjoined the Charrington brewery. The brewery was headed by Spencer Charrington, MP for the area between 1885 and 1904.
In 1885 the division was administered as part of the county of Middlesex. In 1889 there was a change in the administrative arrangements covering the constituency, with the creation of the County of London. In 1900 London was divided into Metropolitan Boroughs. The Mile End Old Town Parish Vestry was abolished, with Mile End becoming part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
1918-1950: The constituency became a division of Stepney. The Representation of the People Act 1918 defined it as comprising four local government wards of Mile End Old Town (Centre, North, South and West) as well as the ward of Whitechapel East.
In 1945 the seat became one of only two seats in that Parliament to have a Communist MP elected. Phil Pirratin had been a local activist and borough councillor.
In 1950 the constituency was abolished. Its territory became part of the Stepney seat.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Spencer Charrington | Conservative | |
| 1905 by-election | Harry Levy-Lawson, later Viscount Burnham | Liberal Unionist | |
| 1906 | Bertram Stuart Straus | Liberal | |
| 1910, January | Harry Levy-Lawson, later Viscount Burnham | Liberal Unionist a | |
| 1916 by-election | Warwick Brookes | Conservative | |
| 1918 | Sir Walter Reuben Preston | Conservative b | |
| 1923 | John Scurr | Labour | |
| 1931 | William James O'Donovan | Conservative | |
| 1935 | Daniel Frankel | Labour | |
| 1945 | Philip Piratin | Communist | |
| 1950 | constituency abolished | ||
Notes:-
- a The Liberal Unionist Party formally merged into the Conservative Party in 1912.
- b Coalition Conservative 1918-1922.
[edit] Election results
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[edit] References
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1974)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press, revised edition 1977)
- Social Geography of British Elections 1885-1910. by Henry Pelling (Macmillan 1967)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
