| Bow and Poplar | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
Bow and Poplar was a parliamentary constituency in London which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.
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The constituency was made up of ten wards of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Blackwall, Bow, Bromley, East India, Grove, Lansbury, Limehouse, Millwall, Park, and Shadwell.
| Election | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Ian Mikardo | Labour | |
| 1987 | Mildred Gordon | Labour | |
| General Election 1992: Bow and Poplar[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Mildred Gordon | 18,487 | 49.53 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | P hughes | 10,083 | 27.02 | ||
| Conservative | S Pearce | 6,876 | 18.42 | ||
| BNP | John Tyndall | 1,107 | 2.97 | ||
| Green | S Petter | 612 | 1.64 | ||
| Natural Law | W Hite | 158 | 0.42 | ||
| Majority | 8,404 | 22.52 | |||
| Turnout | 37,321 | 65.84 | |||
| General Election 1987: Bow and Poplar[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Mildred Gordon | ||||
| SDP–Liberal Alliance | |||||
| Conservative | |||||
| Workers Revolutionary | |||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| General Election 1983: Bow and Poplar[4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Mildred Gordon | ||||
| SDP–Liberal Alliance | |||||
| Conservative | |||||
| National Front | |||||
| Independent Labour | |||||
| Workers Revolutionary | |||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||