Birkenhead East (UK Parliament constituency)
Birkenhead East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
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.
Boundaries
The County Borough of Birkenhead wards of Argyle, Bebington, Clifton, Egerton, and Mersey, and the part of the borough which lay between the eastern boundary of Argyle, Mersey and Bebington wards and the centre of the bed of the River Mersey.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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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:[1]
Electorate 44,247 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Frank Soskice | 14,790 | 45.5 | +22.2 | |
Liberal | Rt Hon. Henry Graham White | 10,140 | 31.1 | -17.0 | |
Conservative | Frederick Newell Bucher | 7,624 | 23.4 | -5.2 | |
Majority | 4,650 | 14.4 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 73.6 | -0.6 | |||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +19.6 | |||
Election in the 1930s
General Election 1935: Birkenhead East[2]
Electorate 46,385 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Henry Graham White | 16,548 | 48.1 | -25.1 | |
Conservative | S J Hill | 9,854 | 28.6 | n/a | |
Labour | Mrs M A Mercer | 8,028 | 23.3 | -3.5 | |
Majority | 6,694 | 19.5 | -17.0 | ||
Turnout | 74.2 | -4.9 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a | |||
General Election 27 October 1931: Birkenhead East[3]
Electorate 46,556 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Henry Graham White | 26,938 | 73.2 | +37.3 | |
Labour | C McVey | 9,868 | 26.8 | -5.0 | |
Majority | 17,070 | 46.4 | +36.5 | ||
Turnout | 79.1 | +0.3 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | +21.2 | |||
Election in the 1920s
General Election 30 May 1929: Birkenhead East [4] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Henry Graham White | 13,157 | 35.9 | +2.9 | |
Unionist | Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank | 11,860 | 32.3 | -8.0 | |
Labour | James Coulthard | 11,654 | 31.8 | +5.1 | |
Majority | 1,297 | 3.6 | 10.9 | ||
Turnout | 78.8 | -2.2 | |||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +5.5 | |||
General Election 29 October 1924: Birkenhead East [5] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | William Henry Stott | 11,328 | 40.3 | +3.8 | |
Liberal | Henry Graham White | 9,275 | 33.0 | -30.5 | |
Labour | James Coulthard | 7,496 | 26.7 | n/a | |
Majority | 2,053 | 7.3 | |||
Turnout | 81.0 | +6.9 | |||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
General Election 6 December 1923: Birkenhead East [6] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Henry Graham White | 15,845 | 63.5 | +5.7 | |
Unionist | Luke Lees | 9,091 | 36.5 | -5.7 | |
Majority | 6,754 | 27.0 | +11.4 | ||
Turnout | 74.1 | -3.4 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | +5.7 | |||
General Election 15 November 1922: Birkenhead East [7] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Henry Graham White | 14,690 | 57.8 | +49.0 | |
Conservative | Alfred Bigland | 10,745 | 42.2 | -22.3 | |
Majority | 3,945 | 15.6 | 53.4 | ||
Turnout | 77.5 | ||||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +35.7 | |||
Election in the 1910s
General Election 14 December 1918: Birkenhead East[8]
Electorate 33,297 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | 13,012 | 64.5 | n/a | ||
Labour | John Finigan | 5,399 | 26.7 | n/a | |
Liberal | Henry Graham White | 1,787 | 8.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 7,613 | 37.8 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 60.7 | n/a | |||
Unionist win | |||||
- endorsed by the Coalition Government
References
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- 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 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
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