Bethnal Green North East (UK Parliament constituency)

Bethnal Green North East
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Bethnal Green
Created from	Hackney

Bethnal Green North East was a parliamentary constituency in London, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Bethnal Green North East in London 1885-1918

Bethnal Green North East in London 1918-50

Boundaries

The wards of Bethnal Green Metropolitan Borough in 1916

The constituency consisted of the north and east wards of the civil parish of Bethnal Green, Middlesex (later the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green in the County of London).

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Whip
	1885	George Howell	Liberal
	1895	Sir Mancherjee Bhownagree	Conservative
	1906	Sir Edwin Cornwall	Liberal
	1919	Sir Edwin Cornwall	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Garnham Edmonds	Liberal
	1923	Walter Windsor	Labour
	1929	Harry Nathan	Liberal
	February 1933 ^a		Independent Liberal
	June 1934 ^b		Labour
	1935	Daniel Chater	Labour
1950		constituency abolished - see Bethnal Green

Notes:-

^a No election. Nathan resigned the Liberal whip.
^b No election. Nathan took the Labour whip.

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

George Howell

General Election 1885: Bethnal Green North East ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	George Howell	3,095	62.7	n/a
	Conservative	John Dawson Mayne	1,844	37.3	n/a
Majority			1,251	25.4	n/a
Turnout			7,102	69.5	n/a
	Lib-Lab win

General Election 1886: Bethnal Green North East ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	George Howell	2,278	54.4	-8.3
	Liberal Unionist	Edward John Stoneham	1,906	45.6	+8.3
Majority			372	8.8	-16.6
Turnout			7,102	58.9	-10.6
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	-8.3

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Bethnal Green North East ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	George Howell	2,918	54.4	0.0
	Conservative	Henry Hananel Marks	2,321	43.2	-2.4
	Social Democratic Federation	Hugh Robert Taylor	106	2.0	n/a
	Independent	R. Ballard	23	0.4	n/a
Majority			597	11.2	+2.4
Turnout			7,438	72.2	+13.3
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	+1.2

General Election 1895: Bethnal Green North East ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownagree	2,591	51.6	+8.4
	Lib-Lab	George Howell	2,431	48.4	6.0
Majority			160	3.2	-14.4
Turnout			7,431	67.6	-4.6
	Conservative gain from Lib-Lab		Swing	+7.2

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Bethnal Green North East ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownagree	2,988	53.4	+1.8
	Liberal	Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson	2,609	46.6	-1.8
Majority			379	6.8	+3.6
Turnout			8,012	69.9	+2.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.8

Cornwall

General Election 1906: Bethnal Green North East ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall	4,127	66.0	+19.4
	Conservative	Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownagree	2,130	34.0	-19.4
Majority			1,997	32.0	38.8
Turnout			7,730	80.9	+11.0
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+19.4

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Bethnal Green North East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall	3,842	61.2	-4.8
	Conservative	John Elsdale Molson	2,435	38.8	+4.8
Majority			1,407	22.4	-9.6
Turnout				83.1	+2.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	-4.8

General Election December 1910: Bethnal Green North East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall	3,188	61.0	-0.2
	Conservative	John Elsdale Molson	2,037	39.0	+0.2
Majority			1,151	22.0	-0.4
Turnout				69.2	-13.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.2

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Liberal: Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall
Unionist:

General Election 1918: Bethnal Green North East ^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall	4,448	56.4	-4.6
	National Party	Lieut. Wilfred Liddell Steel	2,312	29.3	n/a
	Independent	William Shadforth	1,127	14.3	n/a
Majority			2,136	27.1	+5.1
Turnout			25,253	31.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Bethnal Green North East ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Garnham Edmonds	5,774	36.1	-20.3
	Communist	Walter Windsor	5,659	35.3	n/a
	Unionist	Eric Alfred Hoffgaard	2,806	17.5	n/a
	National Liberal	George Morgan Garro-Jones	1,780	11.5	n/a
Majority			115	0.8	-26.3
Turnout			27,262	58.8	+27.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

Robert Tasker

General Election 1923: Bethnal Green North East ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Walter Windsor	7,415	45.7	+12.4
	Liberal	Garnham Edmonds	6,790	41.8	+5.7
	Unionist	Robert Inigo Tasker	2,035	12.5	-5.0
Majority			625	3.9	4.7
Turnout			27,468	59.1	+0.3
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+3.3

General Election 1924: Bethnal Green North East ^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Walter Windsor	9,560	50.2	+4.5
	Liberal	Garnham Edmonds	9,465	49.8	+8.0
Majority			95	0.4	-3.5
Turnout			27,827	68.4	+9.3
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.8

General Election 1929: Bethnal Green North East ^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Harry Louis Nathan	11,690	47.4	-2.4
	Labour	Walter Windsor	11,101	44.9	-5.3
	Unionist	James Alan Bell	1,908	7.7	n/a
Majority			589	2.5	2.9
Turnout			34,453	71.7	+3.3
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing	+1.5

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Bethnal Green North East ^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Harry Louis Nathan	13,135	55.9	+8.5
	Labour	William Barratt	10,368	44.1	-0.8
Majority			2,767	11.8	+9.3
Turnout			34,377	68.4	-3.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.7

General Election 1935: Bethnal Green North East^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Daniel Chater	11,581	63.5	+19.4
	Liberal	Joseph Burton Hobman	6,644	36.5	-19.4
Majority			4,937	27.0	38.6
Turnout			32,809	55.5	-12.9
	Labour Co-op gain from Liberal		Swing	+19.4

Elections in the 1940s

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;

Labour: Daniel Chater^[14]
Liberal: Ormond Lewis^[15]

General Election 1945: Bethnal Green North East ^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Daniel Chater	7,696	59.9	-3.6
	Liberal	Paul Hervé Giraud Wright	3,979	30.9	-5.6
	Conservative	Lord Buckhurst	1,185	9.2	n/a
Majority			3,717	29.0	+2.0
Turnout			19,225	66.9	+11.4
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	+1.0

References

↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
↑ The Liberal Magazine, 1939
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

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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