Ealing East (UK Parliament constituency)

Ealing East
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
1945–1950
Seats	one
Created from	Ealing
Replaced by	Ealing South

Ealing East was one of two and a minority of a third constituency covering the Municipal Borough of Ealing in Middlesex, 1945 – 1950. It included the town centre and in terms of local government content became, after its abolition, part of west London in 1965 at which time the borough expanded further to the east and west.

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 (i.e. as incumbent) Frank Sanderson, a Conservative who had represented the seat's main forebear, Ealing.

History

Ealing East in Middlesex, 1945–50

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 save for Hanwell which remained throughout in the Southall seat to the west, created in 1945.

Boundaries

The six Municipal Borough of Ealing wards: Castlebar, Drayton, Grange Grosvenor, Lammas, Manor, and Mount Park.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1945	Sir Frank Sanderson, Bt.	Conservative
1950		constituency abolished in name only, see Ealing South

Election result

General election 1945: Ealing East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frank Sanderson	22,916	47.83
	Labour	David John Johnston	18,619	38.86
	Liberal	Harold William Foster	6,377	13.31
Majority			4,297	8.97
Turnout			47,912	73.16
	Conservative win (new seat)

for results of 1950–1970 elections see Ealing South

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)