Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)

Limehouse
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Stepney
Created from	Tower Hamlets

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

Limehouse in the Metropolitan area, showing boundaries used from 1885-1918

Limehouse in the Parliamentary County of London, showing boundaries used from 1918-1950

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

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
	1885	Edward Samuel Norris	Conservative
	1892	John Stewart Wallace	Liberal
	1895	Sir Harry Simon Samuel	Conservative
	1906	William Pearce	Liberal
	1922	Clement Attlee	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Tower Hamlets, Limehouse^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

General Election 1886: Tower Hamlets, Limehouse
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

General Election 1892: Tower Hamlets, Limehouse
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

Harry Samuel

General Election 1895: Tower Hamlets, Limehouse
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)

General Election 1900: Tower Hamlets, Limehouse
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

General Election 1906: Tower Hamlets, Limehouse
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

General Election January 1910: Tower Hamlets, Limehouse
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

General Election December 1910: Tower Hamlets, Limehouse
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

General Election 1918: Stepney, Limehouse
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir William Pearce	5,860	59.9	+5.3
	Labour	Daniel Desmond Sheehan	2,470	25.2	n/a
	National Party	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

General Election 1922: Stepney, Limehouse
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

General Election 1923: Limehouse
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

General Election 1924: Stepney, Limehouse
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

General Election 1929: Limehouse ^[2]
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

General Election 1931: Stepney, Limehouse
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

General Election 1935: Stepney, Limehouse
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

General Election 1945: Stepney, Limehouse
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)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Epping	Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1945–1950	Succeeded by Walthamstow West

Historic constituencies in London

1885	Battersea Bermondsey Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brixton Camberwell North Chelsea City of London Clapham Deptford Dulwich Finsbury Central Finsbury East Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North Hackney South Haggerston Hammersmith Hampstead Holborn Hoxton Islington East Islington North Islington South Islington West Kennington Kensington North Kensington South Lambeth North Lewisham Limehouse Marylebone East Marylebone West Mile End Newington West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Rotherhithe Southwark West St George St George's Hanover Square St Pancras East St Pancras North St Pancras South St Pancras West Stepney Strand Walworth Wandsworth Westminster Whitechapel Woolwich

1918	Balham and Tooting Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey West Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Camberwell North Camberwell North West Clapham Dulwich Chelsea City of London Deptford Finsbury Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn Islington East Islington North Islington South Islington West Kennington Kensington North Kensington South Lambeth North Lewisham East Lewisham West Limehouse Mile End Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar South Putney Rotherhithe St Marylebone St Pancras North St Pancras South East St Pancras South West Shoreditch Southwark Central Southwark North Southwark South East Stoke Newington Streatham Wandsworth Central Westminster Abbey Westminster St George's Whitechapel and St George's Woolwich East Woolwich West

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