Plaistow (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Plaistow Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Plaistow (strictly the Plaistow Division of West Ham) was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Plaistow district of the County Borough of West Ham, in what was then Essex but is now 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 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
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[edit] Boundaries
The Plaistow division of West Ham, comprised the following wards of the County Borough of West Ham - Hudsons, Plaistow and part of Canning Town.
In 1950 the territory of this division was transferred to form part of the West Ham South constituency.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1918 | William James Thorne | Labour | |
| 1945 | Frederick Elwyn Jones | Labour | |
| 1950 | constituency abolished | ||
[edit] Elections
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[edit] References
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
