Stratford West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)

Stratford
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons

Stratford in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1950.
County Essex
1918 (1918)1950 (1950)
Number of members One
Replaced by West Ham North
Created from West Ham North

Stratford (strictly the Stratford Division of West Ham) was a parliamentary constituency in the Borough of West Ham in the South-West of Essex (now East London), which 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.

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.

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1918 Leonard Lyle Coalition Conservative
1922 Thomas Groves Labour
1945 Henry Nicholls Labour
1950 constituency abolished

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