Walthamstow East (UK Parliament constituency)
| Walthamstow East | |
|---|---|
|
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Essex |
| 1918–1974 | |
| Replaced by | Walthamstow and Chingford |
| Created from | Walthamstow |
Walthamstow East was a parliamentary constituency in what was then the Municipal Borough of Walthamstow in east London. 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.
Walthamstow East in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1950.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was combined with part of the former Walthamstow West to form the new Walthamstow constituency. However, Hale End ward was added to the new Chingford constituency.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Sir Stanley Johnson | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Conservative | ||
| 1924 | Sir Hamar Greenwood | Constitutionalist | |
| 1924 | Conservative | ||
| 1929 | Harry Wallace | Labour | |
| 1931 | Sir Brograve Beauchamp | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Harry Wallace | Labour | |
| 1955 | John Harvey | Conservative | |
| 1966 | William Robinson | Labour | |
| 1969 by-election | Michael McNair-Wilson | Conservative | |
| Feb 1974 | constituency abolished: see Walthamstow | ||
Elections
Elections in the 1920s
| General Election 1929: Walthamstow East[1]
Electorate 38,102 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Harry Wright Wallace | 11,039 | 39.6 | ||
| Unionist | Rt Hon. James Fitzalan Hope | 9,665 | 34.7 | ||
| Liberal | Dr Joseph S Bridges | 7,145 | 25.7 | ||
| Majority | 1,374 | 4.9 | |||
| Turnout | 73.1 | ||||
| Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1930s
| General Election 1931: Walthamstow East[2]
Electorate 41,890 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp | 18,815 | 58.8 | +24.1 | |
| Labour | Harry Wright Wallace | 9,983 | 31.2 | -8.4 | |
| Liberal | Albert Charles Crane | 3,198 | 10.0 | -15.7 | |
| Majority | 8,832 | 27.6 | 32.5 | ||
| Turnout | 31,996 | 76.4 | +3.3 | ||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +16.2 | |||
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 265. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.