Birkenhead East (UK Parliament constituency)

Birkenhead East
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1918 (1918)–1950 (1950)
Number of members	one

Birkenhead East was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Birkenhead area of Merseyside. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system

History

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Alfred Bigland	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Henry Graham White	Liberal
	1924	William Henry Stott	Conservative
	1929	Henry Graham White	Liberal
	1945	Frank Soskice	Labour
1950		constituency abolished: see Birkenhead

Election results

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Birkenhead East:
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Soskice	14,790	45.43
	Liberal	Henry Graham White	10,140	31.15
	Conservative	R N Butcher	7,624	23.42
Majority			4,650
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

Election in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Birkenhead East:
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Graham White	16,548	48.1
	Conservative	S J Hill	9,854	28.6
	Labour	M A Mercer	8,028	23.32
Majority			4,650

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.