West Ham South (UK Parliament constituency)

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West Ham South Borough constituency
Created:	1885, 1950
Abolished:	1918, 1974
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

West Ham South was a parliamentary constituency in 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also 5 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

It was re-established for the 1950 general election, and abolished again for the February 1974 general election.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Joseph Lynn Leicester
	1886	George Edward Banes	Conservative Party
	1892	Keir Hardie	Labour
	1895	George Edward Banes	Conservative Party
	1906	Will Thorne	Labour
1918		constituency abolished: see Plaistow
1950		constituency recreated
	1950	Frederick Elwyn Jones	Labour
1974		constituency abolished: see Newham South

[edit] Election results

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[edit] See also

• West Ham North, 1918–1950

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page