Mile End (UK Parliament constituency)
Mile End | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Stepney |
Created from | Tower Hamlets |
Mile End was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Mile End district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Boundaries
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1885-1918: In this period the constituency was a division of the parliamentary borough of Tower Hamlets in east London. The seat was centred upon the community of Mile End including the Mile End Road, which adjoined the Charrington Brewery. The brewery was headed by Spencer Charrington, MP for the area between 1885 and 1904.
Before 1885 the division was administered as part of the county of Middlesex. It formed part of The Metropolis from 1855 to 1889. In 1889 there was a change in the administrative arrangements covering the constituency, with the creation of the County of London. In 1900 London was divided into Metropolitan Boroughs. The Mile End Old Town Parish Vestry was abolished, with Mile End becoming part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
1918-1950: The constituency became a division of Stepney. The Representation of the People Act 1918 defined it as comprising four local government wards of Mile End Old Town (Centre, North, South and West) as well as the ward of Whitechapel East.
In 1945 the seat became one of only two seats in that Parliament to have a Communist MP elected. Phil Piratin had been a local activist and borough councillor.
In 1950 the constituency was abolished. Its territory became part of the Stepney seat.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | Spencer Charrington | Conservative | |
1905 by-election | Harry Levy-Lawson, later Viscount Burnham | Liberal Unionist | |
1906 | Bertram Stuart Straus | Liberal | |
1910, January | Harry Levy-Lawson, later Viscount Burnham | Liberal Unionist a | |
1916 by-election | Warwick Brookes | Conservative | |
1918 | Sir Walter Reuben Preston | Conservative b | |
1923 | John Scurr | Labour | |
1931 | William James O'Donovan | Conservative | |
1935 | Daniel Frankel | Labour | |
1945 | Phil Piratin | Communist | |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Notes:-
- a The Liberal Unionist Party formally merged into the Conservative Party in 1912.
- b Coalition Conservative 1918-1922.
Election results
Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1945: Stepney, Mile End | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Communist | Phil Piratin | 5,075 | 47.6 | ||
Labour | Daniel Frankel | 3,861 | 36.2 | ||
Conservative | V. Motion | 1,722 | 16.2 | ||
Majority | 1,214 | 11.4 | |||
Turnout | 16,177 | 65.9 | |||
Communist gain from Labour | Swing | N/A | |||
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1935: Stepney, Mile End | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Daniel Frankel | 13,177 | 57.2 | ||
Conservative | William James O'Donovan | 9,859 | 42.8 | ||
Majority | 3318 | 14.4 | |||
Turnout | 36,294 | 63.5 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +13.2 | |||
General Election 1931: Stepney, Mile End | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | William James O'Donovan | 12,399 | 56.0 | ||
Labour | John Scurr | 9,738 | 44.0 | ||
Majority | 2,661 | 12.0 | |||
Turnout | 36,896 | 60.0 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +14.4 | |||
Elections in the 1920s
General Election 1929: Stepney, Mile End | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | John Scurr | 11,489 | 47.1 | ||
Conservative | John Bigelow Dodge | 7,401 | 30.3 | ||
Liberal | Solomon Teff | 5,525 | 22.6 | ||
Majority | 4,088 | 16.8 | |||
Turnout | 34,662 | 70.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.4 | |||
General Election 1924: Stepney, Mile End | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | John Scurr | 8,306 | 48.5 | ||
Conservative | John Bigelow Dodge | 4,960 | 28.9 | ||
Liberal | Solomon Teff | 3,872 | 22.6 | ||
Majority | 3,346 | 19.6 | |||
Turnout | 24,245 | 70.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.9 | |||
General Election 1923: Stepney, Mile End | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | John Scurr | 6,219 | 41.0 | ||
Conservative | Sir Walter Reuben Preston | 4,741 | 31.2 | ||
Liberal | Robert Bernard Solomon | 4,215 | 27.8 | ||
Majority | 1,478 | 9.8 | |||
Turnout | 23,787 | 63.8 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +7.7 | |||
General Election 1922: Stepney, Mile End | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sir Walter Reuben Preston | 6,014 | 41.0 | ||
Labour | John Scurr | 5,219 | 35.5 | ||
Liberal | Robert Bernard Solomon | 3,457 | 23.5 | ||
Majority | 795 | 5.5 | |||
Turnout | 22,885 | 63.8 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -16.3 | |||
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1918: Stepney, Mile End | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Coalition Conservative | Walter Reuben Preston | 6,025 | 63.2 | ||
Labour | William Devenay | 2,392 | 25.1 | ||
Liberal | Charles John Ough Sanders | 1,119 | 11.7 | ||
Majority | 3,633 | 38.1 | |||
Turnout | 22,131 | 43.1 | |||
Coalition Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Mile End by-election, 1916 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Warwick Brookes | 1,991 | 55.2 | ||
Independent | Noel Pemberton Billing | 1,615 | 44.8 | ||
Majority | 376 | 10.4 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
General Election December 1910: Tower Hamlets, Mile End[1]
Electorate 5,464 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Unionist | Hon. Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson | 2,176 | 50.1 | -0.5 | |
Liberal | Bertram Stuart Straus | 2,170 | 49.9 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 6 | 0.2 | -1.0 | ||
Turnout | 79.5 | -4.8 | |||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | -0.5 | |||
General Election January 1910: Tower Hamlets, Mile End[2]
Electorate 5,464 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Unionist | Hon. Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson | 2,332 | 50.6 | +2.0 | |
Liberal | Bertram Stuart Straus | 2,275 | 49.4 | -2.0 | |
Majority | 57 | 1.2 | 4.0 | ||
Turnout | 84.3 | +1.9 | |||
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +2.0 | |||
Elections in the 1900s
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General Election 1906: Tower Hamlets, Mile End[3]
Electorate 5,419 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Bertram Stuart Straus | 2,295 | 51.4 | +2.3 | |
Liberal Unionist | Hon. Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson | 2,169 | 48.6 | -2.3 | |
Majority | 126 | 2.8 | 4.6 | ||
Turnout | 5,419 | 82.4 | +4.4 | ||
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing | +2.3 | |||
Mile End by-election, 1905[4]
Electorate 5,380 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal Unionist | Hon. Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson | 2,138 | 50.9 | -14.7 | |
Liberal | Bertram Stuart Straus | 2,060 | 49.1 | +14.7 | |
Majority | 78 | 1.8 | -29.4 | ||
Turnout | 5,380 | 78.0 | +15.1 | ||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | -14.7 | |||
General Election 1900: Tower Hamlets, Mile End | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Spencer Charrington | 2,440 | 65.6 | ||
Liberal | Charles Goddard Clarke | 1,280 | 34.4 | ||
Majority | 1160 | 31.2 | |||
Turnout | 5,915 | 62.9 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.5 | |||
Elections in the 1890s
General Election 1895: Tower Hamlets, Mile End | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Spencer Charrington | 2,383 | 61.1 | ||
Liberal | J. Haysman | 1,516 | 38.9 | ||
Majority | 867 | 22.2 | |||
Turnout | 5,551 | 70.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +7.8 | |||
General Election 1892: Tower Hamlets, Mile End | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Spencer Charrington | 2,204 | 53.3 | ||
Liberal | J. Haysman | 1,931 | 46.7 | ||
Majority | 273 | 6.6 | |||
Turnout | 6,456 | 64.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -8.9 | |||
Elections in the 1880s
General Election 1886: Tower Hamlets, Mile End | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Spencer Charrington | 2,110 | 62.2 | ||
Liberal | Arnold H. White | 1,281 | 37.8 | ||
Majority | 829 | 24.4 | |||
Turnout | 5,804 | 58.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +9.7 | |||
General Election 1885: Tower Hamlets, Mile End | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Spencer Charrington | 2,091 | 52.9 | ||
Liberal | Ernest Hart | 1,442 | 36.5 | ||
Liberal | Acton Smee Ayrton | 420 | 10.6 | ||
Majority | 649 | 16.4 | |||
Turnout | 5,804 | 68.1 | |||
References
- ↑ Craig, F.W.S. (1974). British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 (1 ed.). London: Macmillan.
- ↑ Craig, F.W.S. (1974). British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 (1 ed.). London: Macmillan.
- ↑ Craig, F.W.S. (1974). British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 (1 ed.). London: Macmillan.
- ↑ Craig, F.W.S. (1974). British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 (1 ed.). London: Macmillan.
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1974)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press, revised edition 1977)
- Social Geography of British Elections 1885-1910. by Henry Pelling (Macmillan 1967)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)