East Ham South | |
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Former Borough constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
East Ham South within Essex from 1918 to 1950 |
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County | 1918–1965: Essex 1965–1974: Greater London |
1918–1974 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Newham North East and Newham South |
Created from | Romford |
East Ham South was a parliamentary constituency centred on the East Ham district of London, which was in Essex until 1965. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
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The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election.
The seat was established in 1918, as a division of the County Borough of East Ham in the south western part of the historic county of Essex. It comprised the Beckton and North Woolwich, Central East and Central West wards.
By the time of the next major redistribution of parliamentary seats, which took effect in 1950, East Ham had been re-warded. The division then comprised Castle, Central, Greatfield, South and Wall End wards.
In 1965 East Ham was joined with other districts to form the London Borough of Newham in Greater London. It is part of east London.
In the 1974 redistribution the constituency was abolished and its area included in the new Newham North East seat.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Allen Clement Edwards | Coalition National Democratic | |
1922 | Alfred John Barnes | Labour Co-operative | |
1923 | |||
1924 | |||
1929 | |||
1931 | Malcolm Campbell-Johnston | Conservative | |
1935 | Alfred John Barnes | Labour Co-operative | |
1945 | |||
1950 | |||
1951 | |||
1955 | Albert Edward Oram | Labour Co-operative | |
1959 | |||
1964 | |||
1966 | |||
1970 | |||
Feb 1974 | constituency abolished |