Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)
Limehouse | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Tower Hamlets |
Replaced by | Stepney |
Limehouse was a borough constituency centred on the Limehouse district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
History
The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Its most prominent MP was Labour's Clement Attlee, party leader from 1935–55, and Prime Minister from 1945–51.
Boundaries
In 1885 the area was administered as part of the county of Middlesex. It was located in the Tower division, in the east of the historic county. The neighbourhood of Limehouse formed a division of the parliamentary borough of Tower Hamlets. The parliamentary division was part of the East End of London.
In 1889 the Tower division of Middlesex was severed from the county, for administrative purposes. It became part of the County of London. In 1900 the lower tier of local government in London was re-modelled. Limehouse became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
When a re-distribution of parliamentary seats took place in 1918, the constituency became a division of Stepney. It comprised the wards of Limehouse North, Limehouse South, Mile End Old Town North East, Mile End Old Town South East, and Ratcliffe.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1885 | Edward Samuel Norris | Conservative |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1892 | John Stewart Wallace | Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1895 | Sir Harry Simon Samuel | Conservative |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1906 | William Pearce | Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1922 | Clement Attlee | Labour |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edward Samuel Norris | 2,566 | 60.5 | ||
Liberal | James George Cotton Minchin | 1,676 | 39.5 | ||
Majority | 890 | 21.0 | |||
Turnout | 5,954 | 71.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Samuel Norris | 2,230 | 61.0 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Edward Scrutton | 1,428 | 39.0 | ||
Majority | 802 | 22.0 | |||
Turnout | 5,954 | 61.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.5 |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Stewart Wallace | 2,475 | 51.8 | ||
Conservative | Harry Simon Samuel | 2,305 | 48.2 | ||
Majority | 170 | 3.6 | |||
Turnout | 6,456 | 74.0 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +12.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Harry Simon Samuel | 2,661 | 56.2 | ||
Liberal | W.M. Thompson | 2,071 | 43.8 | ||
Majority | 590 | 12.4 | |||
Turnout | 6,309 | 75.0 | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +8.0 |
Elections in the 1900s (decade)
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Harry Simon Samuel | 2,608 | 55.8 | ||
Liberal | William Pearce | 2,070 | 44.2 | ||
Majority | 538 | 11.6 | |||
Turnout | 6,835 | 68.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Pearce | 2,981 | 59.8 | ||
Conservative | Sir Harry Simon Samuel | 2,007 | 40.2 | ||
Majority | 974 | 19.6 | |||
Turnout | 6,234 | 80.0 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +15.6 |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Pearce | 2,826 | 54.1 | ||
Conservative | George Oldroyd Borwick | 2,395 | 45.9 | ||
Majority | 431 | 8.2 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -5.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Pearce | 2,557 | 54.6 | ||
Conservative | Patrick Rose-Innes | 2,126 | 45.4 | ||
Majority | 431 | 9.2 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | 5,860 | 59.9 | +5.3 | ||
Labour | Daniel Desmond Sheehan | 2,470 | 25.2 | n/a | |
National | Charles Herbert Roswell | 1,455 | 14.9 | n/a | |
Majority | 3,390 | 34.7 | |||
Turnout | 29,275 | 33.4 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a |
- endorsed by Coalition Government
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clement Richard Attlee | 9,688 | 55.4 | ||
National Liberal | Sir William Pearce | 7,789 | 44.6 | ||
Majority | 1,899 | 10.8 | |||
Turnout | 30,261 | 57.8 | |||
Labour gain from National Liberal | Swing | +22.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clement Richard Attlee | 11,473 | 68.5 | +13.1 | |
Unionist | Thomas Miller-Jones | 5,288 | 31.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 6,185 | 37.0 | +26.2 | ||
Turnout | 30,452 | 55.0 | −2.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clement Richard Attlee | 11,713 | 57.7 | ||
Unionist | Thomas Miller-Jones | 5,692 | 28.1 | ||
Liberal | Henry Marks | 2,869 | 14.2 | ||
Majority | 6,021 | 29.6 | |||
Turnout | 30,927 | 65.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -3.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clement Richard Attlee | 13,872 | 55.9 | −1.8 | |
Unionist | Hon. Evan Frederic Morgan | 6,584 | 26.5 | −1.6 | |
Liberal | Jasper Addis | 4,116 | 16.6 | +2.4 | |
Communist | Walter Thomas Leo Tapsell | 245 | 1.0 | n/a | |
Majority | 7,288 | 29.4 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 38,440 | 64.6 | −1.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.1 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. Clement Richard Attlee | 11,354 | 50.5 | ||
Conservative | R. Girouard | 10,803 | 48.1 | ||
New Party | Herbert L. Hodge | 307 | 1.4 | ||
Majority | 551 | 2.4 | |||
Turnout | 38,682 | 58.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -13.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. Clement Richard Attlee | 14,600 | 66.5 | ||
Conservative | Charles John Busby | 7,355 | 33.5 | ||
Majority | 7,245 | 33.0 | |||
Turnout | 37,020 | 59.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +15.3 |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. Clement Richard Attlee | 8,398 | 83.8 | ||
Conservative | Alfred N Peter Woodard | 1,618 | 16.2 | ||
Majority | 6,780 | 67.6 | |||
Turnout | 16,367 | 61.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +17.3 |
References
- ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)