Stratford West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)
Not to be confused with Stratford-on-Avon (UK Parliament constituency).
| Stratford | |
|---|---|
|
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
|
Stratford in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1950. | |
| County | Essex |
| 1918–1950 | |
| 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.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Leonard Lyle | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Thomas Groves | Labour | |
| 1945 | Henry Nicholls | Labour | |
| 1950 | constituency abolished | ||
Elections
Elections in the 1920s
| General Election 1922: Stratford [1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Thomas Edward Groves | 10,017 | 46.8 | n/a | |
| Unionist | Charles Ernest Leonard Lyle | 8,641 | 40.5 | -23.3 | |
| Liberal | Alfred Henry Scott | 2,704 | 12.7 | -23.5 | |
| Majority | 1,376 | 6.3 | 33.9 | ||
| Turnout | 64.9 | +22.6 | |||
| Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | n/a | |||
| General Election 1929: Stratford [2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Thomas Edward Groves | 16,665 | 58.6 | ||
| Unionist | Henry Adam Procter | 8,018 | 28.2 | ||
| Liberal | Albert Charles Crane | 3,779 | 13.3 | ||
| Majority | 8,647 | 30.4 | |||
| Turnout | |||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
References
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)
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