Stratford West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)

Stratford
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons

Stratford in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1950.
County Essex
1918–1950
Number of members One
Replaced by West Ham North
Created from West Ham North

Stratford (strictly the Stratford Division of West Ham) was a parliamentary constituency in the Borough of West Ham in the South-West of Essex (now East London), which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1918 Leonard Lyle Coalition Conservative
1922 Thomas Groves Labour
1945 Henry Nicholls Labour
1950 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Stratford [1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Charles Ernest Leonard Lyle 8,498 63.8 n/a
Liberal Rt Hon. Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman 4,821 36.2 n/a
Majority 3,677 27.2 n/a
Turnout 13,319 n/a
Unionist win

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Stratford [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Thomas Edward Groves 10,017 46.8 n/a
Unionist Charles Ernest Leonard Lyle 8,641 40.5 -23.3
Liberal Alfred Henry Scott 2,704 12.7 -23.5
Majority 1,376 6.3 33.9
Turnout 64.9 +22.6
Labour gain from Unionist Swing n/a
General Election 1923: Stratford [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Thomas Edward Groves 11466 55.1 +8.3
Unionist Frederick Victor Fisher 5,443 26.2 -14.3
Liberal William Crow 3,888 18.7 +6.0
Majority 1,376 28.9 +22.6
Turnout 61.8 -3.1
Labour hold Swing +11.3
General Election 1929: Stratford [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Thomas Edward Groves 16,665 58.6
Unionist Henry Adam Procter 8,018 28.2
Liberal Albert Charles Crane 3,779 13.3
Majority 8,647 30.4
Turnout
Labour hold Swing

References

  1. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  2. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
  3. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  4. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig


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