Stratford | |
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Former Borough constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
Stratford in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1950. |
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County | Essex |
1918–1950 | |
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.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Leonard Lyle | Coalition Conservative | |
1922 | Thomas Groves | Labour | |
1945 | Henry Nicholls | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished |