Ilford (UK Parliament constituency)

Ilford
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1945
Number of members	one

Ilford was a borough constituency in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge in east London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election, when it was replaced by the new Ilford North and Ilford South constituencies.

Boundaries

Ilford in Essex 1918-45

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir William Peter Griggs	Coalition Conservative
	1920 by-election	Sir Fredric Wise	Coalition Conservative
	1928 by-election	(Collingwood) George Clements Hamilton	Conservative
	1937 by-election	Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson	Conservative
	1945	constituency abolished: see Ilford North and Ilford South

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Ilford[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir William Peter Griggs	15,7870	66.8	n/a
	Labour	Rev. Herbert Dunnico	4,621	19.5	n/a
	Liberal	Thomas Hamilton Garside	3,261	13.7	n/a
Majority			11,249	47.3	n/a
Turnout				58.3	n/a
	Unionist win

• endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

Ilford by-election, 1920
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Fredric Wise	15,612	54.4	-12.4
	Labour	Joseph King	6,577	22.9	+3.4
	Liberal	John William Howard Thompson	6,515	22.7	+8.9
Turnout			28,704	66.2	+7.9
	Unionist hold		Swing	+4.0

• endorsed by Coalition Government

1922 General Election[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Fredric Wise	14,071	44.4	-10.0
	Liberal	John William Howard Thompson	7,625	24.0	+1.3
	Labour	A West	5,414	17.1	-5.8
	Independent Unionist	FC Bramston	4,610	14.5	n/a
Majority			6,446	20.4	-11.1
Turnout				70.5	+4.3
	Unionist hold		Swing	-5.6

1923 General Election: Ilford [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Fredric Wise	14,136	44.4	0.0
	Liberal	John William Morris	11,965	37.5	+13.5
	Labour	Daniel Chater	5,775	18.1	+1.0
Majority			2,171	6.9	-13.5
Turnout				64.8	-5.7
	Unionist hold		Swing	-6.8

1924 General Election: Ilford [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Fredric Wise	22,825	58.4	+14.0
	Labour	Daniel Chater	8,460	21.7	+3.6
	Liberal	John William Morris	7,780	19.9	-17.6
Majority			14,365	36.7	+29.8
Turnout				74.8	+10.0
	Unionist hold		Swing	+5.2

Comyns Carr

Ilford by-election, 1928[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Collingwood George Clements Hamilton	18,269	44.8	-13.6
	Liberal	Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr	13,621	33.4	+13.5
	Labour	Charles Robin de Gruchy	8,922	21.9	+0.2
Majority			4,648	11.4	-25.3
Turnout				67.5	-7.3
	Unionist hold		Swing	-13.6

1929 General Election: Ilford[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Collingwood George Clements Hamilton	24,414	42.4	-2.4
	Liberal	Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr	21,267	36.9	+3.8
	Labour	Charles Robin de Gruchy	11,952	20.7	-1.2
Majority			3,147	5.5	-5.9
Turnout				73.6	+6.1
	Unionist hold		Swing	-3.1

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Ilford[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Collingwood George Clements Hamilton	43,737	67.2
	Labour	Percy Astins	12,173	18.7
	Liberal	William Stanley Russell Thomas	9,179	14.1
Majority			31,564	48.5
Turnout				71.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Ilford[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Collingwood George Clements Hamilton	43,208	63.1
	Labour	Percy Astins	25,241	36.9
Majority			17,967	26.2
Turnout				64.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Ilford by-election, 1937[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson
	Labour	James Ranger
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson
• Labour: James Ranger^[10]
• British Union: Louise Ann King

References

1. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
2. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
3. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
4. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
5. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
6. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
7. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
8. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
9. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
10. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "I"