Whitechapel and St George's (London County Council constituency)

Whitechapel and St George's
Whitechapel and St George's
Former constituency; for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1919
Abolished	1949
Member(s)	2
Created from	St George and Whitechapel
Replaced by	Stepney

Whitechapel and St George's was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1919 and 1949. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name.

Councillors

Year	Name	Party		Name	Party
1919	Henry Herman Gordon style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Progressive Party (London)" \|	Progressive	William C. Johnson	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Progressive Party (London)/meta/color"\|	Progressive
1922	Christopher John Kelly	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	William C. Johnson	Labour	Progressive
1925	Christopher John Kelly	Morry Davis	rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Labour	Labour
1928	Jack Sullivan style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" \|		Labour
1931	Jack Oldfield		rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Labour
1934		Christopher John Kelly style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" \|	Labour
1937		Morry Davis style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" \|	Labour
1945		Richard Clements style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" \|	Labour

Election results

1919 London County Council election: Whitechapel and St George's^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Progressive	Henry Herman Gordon	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive	William Cowlishaw Johnson	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
Progressive hold		Swing
Progressive hold		Swing

1922 London County Council election: Whitechapel and St George's^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christopher John Kelly	3,244	19.0	n/a
	Progressive	William C. Johnson	3,085	18.1
	Labour	Morry Davis	2,998	17.5	n/a
	Progressive	J. J. Reidy	2,972	17.4
	Municipal Reform	Woolf Joel	2,557	15.0	n/a
	Municipal Reform	Claude Herbert Grundy	2,227	13.0	n/a
Majority			87	0.6
	Labour gain from Progressive		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1925 London County Council election: Whitechapel and St George's^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Christopher John Kelly	4,231
	Labour	Morry Davis	4,187
	Progressive	William C. Johnson	2,232
	Progressive	Ida Samuel	1,852
	Municipal Reform	E. E. Sturgess	623
	Municipal Reform	A. Ludlow	604
Majority
	Labour gain from Progressive		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1928 London County Council election: Whitechapel and St George's^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Morry Davis	5,327
	Labour	Jack Sullivan	5,324
	Municipal Reform	E. E. Sturgess	1,407
	Municipal Reform	Lindsay Richard Venn	1,387
	Liberal	Frank Milton	1,130
	Liberal	D. Braidman	1,057
	Independent	K. J. Gerber	219
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1931 London County Council election: Whitechapel and St George's^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Morry Davis	3,566
	Labour	Jack Oldfield	3,503
	Independent	M. Moses	1,352
	Independent	W. J. Pincombe	1,169
	Communist	Sid Elias	380
	Communist	Ernie Pountney	374
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1934 London County Council election: Whitechapel and St George's^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Morry Davis	5,788
	Labour	Jack Oldfield	5,770
	Liberal	L. Buxton	1,938
	Liberal	W. Jones	1,796
	Communist	J. Lynch	418
	Communist	John Gollan	389
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1937 London County Council election: Whitechapel and St George's^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Jack Oldfield	8,830
	Labour	Morry Davis	8,720
	Municipal Reform	R. Jones	1,610
	Municipal Reform	M. Rose	1,478
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1946 London County Council election: Whitechapel and St George's^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Jack Oldfield	3,470
	Labour	Richard Clements	3,427
	Communist	Michael Shapiro	2,116
	Communist	Bill Carver	2,060
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

References

^ ^a ^b London Municipal Notes - Volumes 18-23, London Municipal Society
^ "LCC Elections: Results declared yesterday". The Times. 7 March 1925.
^ "LCC Election: Full results of polling". The Times. 10 March 1928.
^ "LCC Election: Seven seats lost by Labour". The Times. 7 March 1931.
^ "LCC Election: Full results of the poll". The Times. 10 March 1934.
^ "New LCC: Labour's increased majority". The Times. 6 March 1937.
^ "The New LCC: Labour gains in a low poll". The Times. 9 March 1946.

[lmsnotes-1] London Municipal Notes - Volumes 18-23, London Municipal Society

[2] "LCC Elections: Results declared yesterday". The Times. 7 March 1925.

[3] "LCC Election: Full results of polling". The Times. 10 March 1928.

[4] "LCC Election: Seven seats lost by Labour". The Times. 7 March 1931.

[5] "LCC Election: Full results of the poll". The Times. 10 March 1934.

[6] "New LCC: Labour's increased majority". The Times. 6 March 1937.

[7] "The New LCC: Labour gains in a low poll". The Times. 9 March 1946.

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