Fulham East (UK Parliament constituency)

Fulham East
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Metropolitan Borough of Fulham (in the County of London)
1918–1955
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Fulham
Created from	Fulham

Fulham East was a borough constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham in London. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1955. Elections were held using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Fulham East in the County of London, boundaries 1918-50

A map showing the wards of Fulham Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.

Fulham East in the County of London, boundaries 1950-55

At the 1918 general election the previous Fulham constituency was divided into two constituencies, Fulham East and Fulham West; the two halves were re-united for the 1955 general election. At the 1997 general election, the Fulham constituency was replaced by Hammersmith and Fulham.

Boundaries

The Metropolitan Borough of Fulham wards of Barons Court, Lillie, Sands End, and Walham.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party
	1918	Henry Norris	Unionist
	1922	Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan	Unionist
	1933 b-e	John Charles Wilmot	Labour
	1935	William Astor	Conservative
	1945	Michael Stewart	Labour
	1955	constituency abolished: see Fulham

Election results

Election in the 1910s

General Election 14 December 1918: Fulham East[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Henry George Norris	10,242	69.4	n/a
	Labour	David Cook	2,883	19.5	n/a
	Liberal	Fred Coysh	1,644	11.1	n/a
Majority			7,359	49.9	n/a
Turnout				40.8	n/a
	Unionist win

• endorsed by the Coalition Government

Election in the 1920s

General Election 15 November 1922: Fulham East[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan	13,282	61.5	-7.9
	Labour	John Palmer	5,393	35.0	+15.5
	Liberal	Maurice Gordon Liverman	2,907	13.5	+2.4
Majority			7,889	26.5	-23.4
Turnout				58.0

General Election 6 December 1923: Fulham East [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan	9,757	43.9	-17.6
	Labour	John Palmer	7,683	34.5	-0.5
	Liberal	Robert Crawford Hawkin	4,817	21.6	+8.1
Majority			2,074	9.4	-17.1
Turnout				58.0	0.0
	Unionist hold		Swing	-8.5

General Election 29 October 1924: Fulham East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan	16,657	61.6
	Labour	John Palmer	10,403	38.4
Majority			6,254	23.2
Turnout				69.1

General Election 30 May 1929: Fulham East[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan	15,130	44.3	-17.3
	Labour	John Palmer	13,425	39.4	+1.0
	Liberal	John Henry Greenwood	5,551	16.3	n/a
Majority			1,705	4.9	18.3
Turnout				66.8	-2.3
	Unionist hold		Swing	-9.1

Election in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Fulham East[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan	23,438	68.7	+14.4
	Labour	Sir Herbert John Maynard	8,917	26.1
	Liberal	John Henry Greenwood	1,788	5.2
Majority			14,521	42.6
Turnout				66.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Fulham East by-election, 1933[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Charles Wilmot	17,790	57.9	+31.8
	Conservative	William James Waldron	12,950	42.1	-26.6
Majority			4,840	15.8
Turnout			30,740	59.5
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 14 November 1935: Fulham East [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hon. William Waldorf Astor	18,743	51.4
	Labour	John Charles Wilmot	17,689	48.6
Majority			1,054	2.8
Turnout				71.9
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Election in the 1940s

General Election 5 to 19 July 1945: Fulham East[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Capt. Robert Michael Maitland Stewart	15,662	55.4
	Conservative	William Waldorf Astor	10,309	36.4
	Liberal	Capt. Philip Montague Syrett	2,315	8.2
Majority			5,353	19.0
Turnout			28,286
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 23 February 1950: Fulham East[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Michael Maitland Stewart	18,998	50.1
	Conservative	Samuel Vyvyan Trerice Adams	16,233	42.9
	Liberal	Frank Victor Jacoby	2,214	5.9
	Communist	Roy Ellwood Elsmere	399	1.1	n/a
Majority			2,765	7.2
Turnout				84.2

Michael Stewart

General Election 25 October 1951: Fulham East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Michael Maitland Stewart	20,279	53.2
	Conservative	Frederick John Frank Hall	17,806	46.8
Majority			2,473	6.4
Turnout				84.5

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "F"
2. British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
3. British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
4. British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
5. British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
6. British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
7. British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
8. British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
9. British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949, Fred W. S. Craig
10. "The General Election: Last Night's Results". The Times. 24 February 1950. p. 8.