Stratford West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)
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Not to be confused with Stratford-on-Avon (UK Parliament constituency).
| Stratford Borough constituency |
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|---|---|
| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Stratford (strictly the Stratford Division of West Ham) was a parliamentary constituency in the Borough of West Ham in in the South-West of Essex (now East London), which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Stratford was the home of the former fruit and vegetable market which closed at the end of the twentieth century.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Charles Ernest Leonard Lyle | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Thomas Edward Groves | Labour | |
| 1945 | Henry Richard Nicholls | Labour | |
| 1950 | constituency abolished | ||
[edit] References
- 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
