Bethnal Green and Stepney (UK Parliament constituency)

Bethnal Green and Stepney
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Greater London
1983–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Bethnal Green and Bow
Created from	Bethnal Green & Bow and Stepney & Poplar

Bethnal Green and Stepney was a parliamentary constituency in east London, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.

History

The constituency was only ever represented by the former cabinet minister Peter Shore, who held the seat for the Labour Party from its creation in 1983 to its abolition in 1997.

Boundaries

The constituency was made up of nine electoral wards of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Holy Trinity, Redcoat, St Dunstan’s, St James’, St Katharine’s, St Mary’s, St Peter’s, Spitalfields, and Weavers. It was abolished in 1997, and largely replaced by the larger Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, in line with the Boundary Commission's recommendation that one seat should be lost in the paired boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham. 297 electors moved to the new Cities of London and Westminster constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party
	1983	Peter Shore	Labour
	1997	constituency abolished: see Bethnal Green and Bow

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Bethnal Green and Stepney[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Shore	20,350	55.8	+7.6
	Liberal Democrat	Jeremy Andrew Shaw	8,120	22.3	−9.5
	Conservative	Miss Jane E. Emmerson	6,507	17.9	−1.4
	BNP	Richard Edmonds	1,310	3.6	+3.6
	Communist	Stanley E. Kelsey	156	0.4	−0.3
Majority			12,230	33.6	+17.1
Turnout			36,443	65.5	+7.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+8.6

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Bethnal Green and Stepney
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Shore	15,490	48.3	−2.7
	Liberal	Jeremy Andrew Shaw	10,206	31.8	+1.4
	Conservative	Olga Maitland	6,176	19.2	+5.2
	Communist	Sarah Louise Gasquoine	232	0.7	−0.1
Majority			5,284	16.5
Turnout			32,104	57.6
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Bethnal Green and Stepney
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Shore	15,740	51.0	N/A
	Liberal	S. Charters	9,382	30.4	N/A
	Conservative	Demitri Argyropulo	4,323	14.0	N/A
	National Front	Victor Clark	800	2.6	N/A
	Communist	J. Rees	243	0.8	N/A
	Independent	B. N. Chaudhuri	214	0.7	N/A
	Independent	P. J. Mahoney	136	0.4	N/A
Majority			6,358	20.6	N/A
Turnout			30,838	55.7	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

Notes and references

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
2. "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.