Ealing East (UK Parliament constituency)
Ealing East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1945–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Ealing North (part) and Ealing South (bulk) |
Created from | Ealing |
Ealing East was a parliamentary constituency containing approximately half of the electorate of the Municipal Borough of Ealing in Middlesex, 1945 – 1950. Its content became after its abolition part of west London, in 1965.
Its voters returned one member (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament using the first past the post system.
Its single election was the general election of 1945, a landslide for Clement Attlee leading the Labour Party, at which the seat de facto re-elected Frank Sanderson, a Conservative who had represented its main forebear seat, Ealing.
History
The constituency was created for the 1945 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election. The Municipal Borough of Ealing was then represented by the new Ealing North and Ealing South constituencies.
Boundaries
The Municipal Borough of Ealing wards of Castlebar, Drayton, Grange, Grosvenor, Lammas, Manor, and Mount Park.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1945 | Sir Frank Sanderson, Bt. | Conservative | |
1950 | constituency abolished: see Ealing North and Ealing South |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Frank Sanderson | 22,916 | 47.83 | ||
Labour | DJ Johnston | 18,619 | 38.86 | ||
Liberal | HW Foster | 6,377 | 13.31 | ||
Majority | 4,297 | 8.97 | |||
Turnout | 73.16 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||