Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)

Poplar
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Poplar South
Created from	Tower Hamlets
1950–1974 (1974)
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Stepney and Poplar
Created from	Bow and Bromley and Poplar South

Poplar was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Poplar district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

History

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election, when with very minor boundary changes it was replaced by the new constituency of Poplar South. A small amount of the constituency's territory was added to Bow and Bromley.

It was re-established for the 1950 general election, and abolished again for the February 1974 general election. It was then partly replaced by the new Stepney and Poplar constituency.

Boundaries

Poplar in the Metropolitan area, boundaries 1885-1918

Poplar in the County of London, boundaries 1950-74

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

1885-1918: 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 Poplar 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. Poplar constituency became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.

1950-1974: When a re-distribution of parliamentary seats took effect in 1950, the constituency was re-created. It then included the whole of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.

In 1965 the Metropolitan Borough was incorporated in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Greater London.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Henry Green	Liberal
	1886	Sydney Buxton	Liberal
	1914 b-e	Alfred Yeo	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished: see Poplar South & Bow and Bromley
1950		constituency re-created
	1950	Charles Key	Labour
	1964	Ian Mikardo	Labour
Feb 1974		constituency abolished: see Stepney and Poplar

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Tower Hamlets, Poplar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Green	4,090	65.9	n/a
	Conservative	Denzil R. Onslow	2,113	34.1	n/a
Majority			1,977	31.8	n/a
Turnout			9,041	68.6	n/a
	Liberal win

Sydney Buxton

General Election 1886: Tower Hamlets, Poplar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sydney Charles Buxton	2,903	50.7
	Conservative	Alfred Cholmeley Earle Welby	2,827	49.3
Majority			76	1.4
Turnout			9,041	63.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	-15.2

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Tower Hamlets, Poplar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sydney Charles Buxton	5,007	62.7
	Conservative	Alfred Cholmeley Earle Welby	2,975	37.3
Majority			2,032	25.4
Turnout			10,348	77.1
	Liberal hold		Swing	+12.0

General Election 1895: Tower Hamlets, Poplar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sydney Charles Buxton	3,939	55.9
	Conservative	William Pelham Bullivant	3,110	44.1
Majority			829	11.8
Turnout			9,684	72.8
	Liberal hold		Swing	-6.8

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Tower Hamlets, Poplar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sydney Charles Buxton	3,992	58.4
	Conservative	William Pelham Bullivant	2,840	41.6
Majority			1,152	16.8
Turnout			10,009	68.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.5

General Election 1906: Tower Hamlets, Poplar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sydney Charles Buxton	4,546	67.0
	Conservative	George Oldroyd Borwick	2,235	33.0
Majority			2,311	34.0
Turnout			9,088	74.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	+8.6

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Tower Hamlets, Poplar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Sydney Charles Buxton	4,172	57.2
	Conservative	Leslie Orme Wilson	3,125	42.8
Majority			1,047	14.4
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing	-9.8

General Election December 1910
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Sydney Charles Buxton	3,977	64.9
	Conservative	Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett	2,148	35.1
Majority			1,829	29.8
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing	+7.7

Alfred Yeo

Poplar by-election, 1914
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alfred William Yeo	3,548	46.0
	Conservative	Robin S. Kerr-Clark	3,270	42.4
	British Socialist Party	John Joseph Jones	893	11.6
Majority			278	3.6
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing	-13.1

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Poplar^[1]^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles William Key	30,756	78.23	*N/A*
	Conservative	Richard Thomas Henry Lonsdale	6,088	15.48	N/A
	Liberal	Joseph F Purkis	1,933	4.92	N/A
	Communist	H Watson	540	1.37	N/A
Majority			24,668	62.74	N/A
Turnout			39,317	78.39	N/A
Registered electors			50,154
	Labour win (new seat)

General Election 1951: Poplar^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles William Key	31,377	82.03	+3.80
	Conservative	Peter Frank Hannibal Emery	6,875	17.97	+2.49
Majority			24,502	64.05	+1.31
Turnout			38,252	75.73	-2.66
Registered electors			50,509
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.66

General Election 1955: Poplar^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles William Key	25,642	81.52	-0.51
	Conservative	Gerard Foliott Vaughan	5,814	18.48	+0.51
Majority			19,828	63.03	-1.02
Turnout			31,456	64.15	-11.58
Registered electors			49,038
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.51

General Election 1959: Poplar^[7]^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles William Key	22,506	77.23	-4.29
	Conservative	Peter Blair Black	6,635	22.77	+4.29
Majority			15,871	54.46	-8.57
Turnout			29,141	65.62	+1.57
Registered electors			44,412
	Labour hold		Swing	-4.29

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Poplar^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Mikardo	20,271	77.71	+0.48
	Conservative	Kenneth Wilfred Baker	5,813	22.29	-0.48
Majority			14,458	55.43	+0.96
Turnout			26,084	58.28	-7.34
Registered electors			44,756
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.48

General Election 1966: Poplar^[11]^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Mikardo	21,071	84.51	+6.80
	Conservative	Roger Holloway	3,863	15.49	-6.80
Majority			17,208	69.01	+13.58
Turnout			24,934	57.67	-0.61
Registered electors			43,236
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.80

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Poplar^[13]^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Mikardo	16,520	80.37	-4.14
	Conservative	Ronald C Denney	4,036	19.63	+4.14
Majority			12,484	60.73	-8.28
Turnout			20,556	49.05	-8.62
Registered electors			41,908
	Labour hold		Swing	-4.14

References

↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results February 1950". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
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Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)

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

1950	Barnet Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Streatham Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

1955	Barnet Barons Court Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hammersmith North Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Streatham Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

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